Eric Martin

LIVE! | Mr. Big

by Alissa Ordabai Staff Writer — September 20, 2011 at Sheperd’s Bush Empire in London, U.K. For a veteran band to keep its performances fresh and spontaneous throughout a mammoth world tour is always a challenge. To what extent is it possible not to fall into a rut? How do you keep the [...]

LIVE! MR. BIG

by Alissa Ordabai Staff Writer August 23, 2011 at the B. B. King Club in New York City When it comes to live music, few things make you feel more privileged than catching a monster band in a small club. But when the band is Mr. Big, you are in not just for the intimacy and the immediacy of the [...]

Eric Martin of Mr. Big

by Alissa Ordabai Staff Writer Fluid yet tight, sleek but full of roiling rock intensity – Mr. Big’s new record “What If” released earlier this month is perhaps the band’s most self-assured album to date. Proving that the supergroup’s 2009 reunion after 7 years apart is more about [...]