Bombay Bicycle Club Show was “Too Perfect” – Royale (5/06)
Bombay Bicycle Club played a show perfect on almost every level – visually, musically, and instrumentally, except for emotionally.
And It Got Weirder From There: Neptune, Giraffes? Giraffes!, Potty Mouth and Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion! (MassArt 4/26)
Neptune, Giraffes? Giraffes!, Potty Mouth and Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion! descended on MassArt and gave life to this reviewer.
Not Enough Skulls: Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks (Brighton Music Hall 4/22)
The last time I saw David Portner masquerading as Avey Tare, I was sweaty and burnt out before he even got onstage. It was March 7, 2013 at the House of Blues, and he and the rest of Animal Collective were watching Dan Deacon from backstage.
I Kept My Eyes Closed At Tycho (Sinclair 4/17)
In the three years since Tycho last played in Boston nearly everything for Scott Hansen has changed
Fuck Me, Pawtucket is Hipper than JP: Alex Bleeker and the Freaks @ Middlesex Lounge on 4/20
By Charlie Moorin I think we can all agree that JP is a sweet place to be: the people, sick the people with mustaches, nurse the pond, prostate the dogs, the young mothers and fathers walking with their children and dogs on a sunny Sunday, the quiet, San-Franciscan streets with houses painted all sorts of […]
White Hinterland Opened for S. Carey, Apparently It Was Opposite Day (Great Scott 4/17)
By Nick Canton White Hinterland opened for S. Carey last Thursday at a packed and sold out Great Scott, and while I couldn’t make sense of billing these two acts together, I feel like it should have definitely been the reverse order. So I saw local-but-bigger-than-local act White Hinterland like, what, three months ago? She […]
Shrieking ‘Bout Sisters With The Coathangers and The Audacity (Great Scott 4/16)
Wednesday night with The Coathangers and The Audacity turned a work night into a play date, albeit one with onstage shots, shrieks, and furious drumming by both bands. Not the worst way to go to bed late.
The Cry of the Unhassled Buttcheek: The Girl Who Didn’t Get Into the Mac Show
by Jamie Loftus Unlike the rest of the throbbing, breathing, flat-brimmed world, I spent yesterday evening in two parts– first, in a rehearsal just around the corner from the MIddle East, then directly in front of it. There, to the chagrin of the few people trying to enjoy whatever the hell was going on in […]
We Saw Mac DeMarco And It Was Weird (The MIddle East Downstairs 4/7)
By Sami Martasian Photos by Ben Stas The morning before Mac DeMarco’s much anticipated sold out show at the Middle East on Monday night, pill I took a break from the overwhelming excitement and had a strange thought- this is probably the last time anyone’s gonna pay 13 bucks for one of his tickets. The […]
Keep Close to Your Heroes: The Julie Ruin Story (The Sinclair 4/3)
The Julie Ruin came through The Sinclair with Screaming Females. Read what our writer Christine Varriale experienced after seeing her hero live.