By Ben Stas Photos by Graham Zinger Fresh off the April release of his 70-minute folk-rock epic Wakin on a Pretty Daze, patient Kurt Vile and his Violators stopped by The Sinclair for a sold-out show on the 17th. Vile made waves in 2011 with the much-acclaimed Smoke Ring for My Halo, and those waves […]
By Ben Stas Photos by Ben Stas Four Tet likely ranks among today’s least flashy performers of electronic music. In an era where most electronic shows are as much concerned with spectacle as sound, drugs a Four Tet performance still offers little in the way of visuals beyond one man and his table of gadgetry. That […]
If your body isn’t sore the day after a JEFF the Brotherhood concert, salve then you’re doing something wrong–this is doubly so if they hold a two-night residency at Great Scott. The Nashville duo of brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall did this on a few stops along their most recent cross-country trek, price playing a […]
By Ben Stas Photos by Ben Stas Converse brought their Rubber Tracks Live concert series to Boston recently for a stacked show featuring acts both local and national. Headlined by psychedelic synth-pop Brooklynites Yeasayer, viagra sale the show also brought Real Estate side project Ducktails and local crews Camden and Bodega Girls to the sold-out […]
By Neil Patch Photos by Daniel Schiffer While rain ultimately defeated Prospect Park’s Great Googa Mooga in its second year of existence, and it successfully demonstrated a model of how to combine a neighborhood community festival with wider regional (and perhaps national) attention. Googa Mooga bills itself as an “amusement park of food, salve drink […]
Last week, Converse put on their first Rubber Tracks Concert series in Boston, with all of the proceeds going to the One Fund. The two shows represented the seemingly polar opposites of psych-pop outfit Yeasayer and stoner-rap savant Curren$y…
By Ben Stas Photos by Ben Stas If you expected that Flying Lotus’ current live show would reflect the chilled-out, buy downtempo vibes of his 2012 record Until the Quiet Comes, you’d be dead wrong. Steven Ellison, who’s been making jazz-inflected experimental electronica under the Flying Lotus moniker since 2006, shook the Sunday night malaise […]
Photos by Graham Zinger
Photos by Graham Zinger
Closing out the Together Festival kickoff at the Sinclair, Tiga emerged from backstage 25 minutes late, rolling up his sleeves as he approached his setup. The eccentric Canadian began building his loops and layers under his trademark baseball cap, largely ignorant of the audience. Likewise, the audience danced in circles and tal