A Eulogy for Ho-Ag
Music like this doesn’t get songwriting accolades. That was your first mistake, World.
Interview with The Field Effect
It’s not hard to see why The Field Effect have achieved so much success in their almost two years as a band…
Interview: The Susan Constant
Bursting with heart and stamina, five-piece power-poppers The Susan Constant seem to blend everything great about the 80’s/90’s alternative rock canon into unbelievably catchy three-minute sonic…
Interview Tanya Palit, aka Saraswathi Jones
Tanya Palit, the mastermind behind Boston’s very own post-colonial pop Hindu avatar demi-god Saraswathi Jones recently cozied up on a balcony on a hot summer Saturday to talk about Beats for Bangladesh…
Interview With Velah
With Velah, prepare to lose yourself in an always-shifting scape of dreamy shoegaze and moodier, amped-up rock. Jen Johnson, Nick Murphy, Mike Latulippe, and Danny McNair rarely stick to one convention…
Breaking Down Kendrick Lamar’s Verse on “Control”
Kendrick Lamar is in a remarkable position – as he himself put it on his Black Hippy collective’s take on Rocko’s hit “UOENO”, “I fucked up the rap game…
Interview with The Deep North
By Adam Parshall Very few times I get to preview shows with my friends and bands that I love listening to on a day-to-day basis, viagra order so this is a rare treat. On Friday, cure August 23, The Middle East Downstairs plays host to what I’m considering one of the shows of the summer, […]
In Defense of Jay-Z
It’s hard to deny that the release of Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail could have gone a bit smoother. Despite the promise of his technology-based #NewRules promotional campaign with Samsung…
Interview with Double Hex’s Joel Edinberg
Chiptune artist Double Hex is the brainchild of local musician Joel Edinberg, better known for his work as the bandleader and saxophonist in the gypsy-punk…
Back it up, Buss it and Bounce: A History of Twerking
Everybody twerks. It’s a fact of our modern google-glass/e-cigarette lifestyle. At this point everyone has seen Miley Cyrus on instagram straight flexin’, but long before my hometown hero’s audacious ass…