Boston Music Awards Nominations Are Out!

By Jennifer Usovicz We are super excited to announce that we are nominated for Best Music Blog at the Boston Music Awards! You can vote for the awards NOW here! Congrats to staff photographer (and homie) Ben Stas for getting nominated for Best Live Music Photographer for the 2015 Boston Music Awards! Ben Stas, aside […]

Lissie Channels Drake (Royale 11/22)

Lissie Maurus, who rocks out under the single stage name Lissie, hit the Royale on Tremont Street for one of their early Friday night gigs – doors at 6 pm, opener at 7, headliner at 8 and everyone out the door by 9:45, so the Royale can transform itself back into a late-night discotheque.

SAVAGES (PARADISE 10/15/13)

By Matthew Shelter Photos by Matthew Shelter After selling out the Middle East in July, pills Savages returned to Boston three months later, health stepping up to the larger confines of the Paradise. But, viagra perhaps because they had been here so recently, or because it was a random Tuesday night, they attracted a sparser […]

HAIM (Paradise 9/1)

By Matthew Shelter Photos by Matthew Shelter Kicking off their first headlining tour of the States, try the sisters HAIM shredded a sold-out crowd down at the Paradise on “Allston Christmas” night. For a group that has yet to release its first full-length album, ed HAIM is already building an ardent following here and all […]

Savages (Middle East Downstairs 7/12)

By Neil Patch Photos by Matthew Shelter Your enjoyment of a Savages concert depends entirely upon how easily you agree with what an artist is telling you to believe. The London-based quartet is a band with an overt and critical message for Western society best summed up by the title of their debut LP: Silence […]

Dawes (Royale 6/21)

It felt like a coming-out party. Sure, Dawes has been around for a few years, they’re no strangers to Boston, and yeah they’ve played the Royale at least a couple of times before. But since their last visit here in the fall of 2011, they’ve received an extended rock tutorial from the likes of Bob Dylan, John Fogerty and Jackson Browne.