Rudimental frees the crowd and brings the love pumped with high energy drum and bass breakbeats, with a touch of ’70s retro-soul, to the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY where May Terry grooves on.

John Wesley Harding masterfully stages a modern-day vaudeville with his Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery in New York City. May Terry allows herself to be led into this magical world.

Nataly Dawn brings the intimate half of Pomplamoose on tour as a solo artist and delivers a warm-hearted and entertaining set at the Neo-Burlesque club, The Slipper Room.

May Terry gets an audio-visual taste of East meets West with the L.A. shoegazing ethereal rock band, Io Echo, at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ.

A contemporary American songbook comes alive with the sophisticatedly sweet voice of jazz-country singer, Kat Edmonson, at New York’s City Winery.

May Terry awakens from a synth-pop slumber to enjoy the off-the-beaten path music of Sasha Siem at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC.

Saul Conrad may be more coffee house than dive bar, but his Poison Packet is still worth pouring into your musical drink.

Ty Segall, fuzzmeister of psychedelic lo-fi garage rock, shows no signs of slowing down his Mach 3 musical momentum, as May Terry witnessed during his concert at Webster Hall, NYC.

May Terry melts the winter doldrums with the French Horn Rebellion’s all-out Nu-Disco dance party at Brooklyn Bowl.

According to May Terry, activism can be fun when it’s done with a friendly nudge from Erin McKeown, who delivered a great night of alternative folk with a touch of Cabaret at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC.

Concrete Blonde’s Johnette Napolitano is one of the most underrated female rock singers of the past 20 years, with a powerful voice that rips your heart out at will. May Terry saw the band and looks for the suture kit to restitch her chest.

San Francisco’s The Stone Foxes jingle-rocked NYC’s Grammercy Theatre, helping May Terry shake the Christmas doldrums away with some great alternative-blues rock.

Die-hard fans, May Terry among them, mind-moshed and recalled their early days of musical aggression at Irving Plaza, thanks to legendary punk rockers, X.

May Terry squints and strains to see and hear 2:54 in a dim bog of lights and sound at the Mercury Lounge.

May Terry ponders growing beyond riot-grrlism as the Corin Tucker Band plays The Mercury Lounge in New York City.

May Terry goes shoegazing Japanese-style with the experimental post-rock band, MONO, at Le Poisson Rouge, NYC.

May Terry gets swept under Alt-J’s awesome wave for a night of sheer Fitzpleasure at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC.

May Terry digs out of the rubble after England’s R&B/rock fusion band, The Heavy, burst through the walls of sound and brought the house down at Irving Plaza, NYC.

The Very Best of John Coltrane - The Prestige Era (Conqueroo (Prestige)). Review by May Terry.

May Terry embarks on a watery Hogyssey, regaining her sea legs aboard a three-hour tour around NYC with Spacehog. Yes. A three-hour tour.