ZOZOBRA WITH KOWLOON WALLED CITY AND THE PROSELYTE (GREAT SCOTT 4/13)
By Rob Dornenburg Photo Credit: Rob Dornenburg In the 5 years since Zozobra, find the side-project of Cave-In bassist Caleb Scofield, order last released a record, the metal landscape in America has changed drastically. The sludgy, prog-imbued sound that Zozobra and bands like Kylesa, Baroness, and Mastodononce embraced has all but disappeared, with most of […]
WAVVES AND FIDLAR (BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL 4/8)
By Helen Chen If you are allergic to guitars or have that disease where your bones are the consistency of glass, hospital you would have most assuredly died at the Wavves and Fidlar show at Brighton Music Hall on a moshtastic Monday night. ‘They certainly don’t call it noise rock for no reason’ was the […]
CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING (SINCLAIR 4/7)
By Ben Stas Photo Credit: Ben Stas A night of weird wonders awaited those who ventured to the Sinclair for a Sunday evening bill headlined by Thurston Moore’s Chelsea Light Moving. Moore is best known as a founding member of the legendary Sonic Youth, pharmacy unhealthy and he’s been a trailblazing figure in indie and […]
ALLISON WEISS, PENTIMENTO, CANDY HEARTS AND MAURA (GREAT SCOTT 4/3)
By Christine Varriale Photo Credit: Christine Varriale Allison Weiss hadn’t played a show in Boston in over a year. To her dearest fans, search this was the show they had been waiting for all spring, order and with the bill of Pentimento, Candy Hearts, and Maura supporting her at Great Scott on April 3rd, the crowd […]
CAITLIN ROSE (TT THE BEAR’S 4/2)
JAMAICAN QUEENS (TT THE BEAR’S 4/1)
By Nick Cox Photo Credit: Ellie Molitor Detroit, it seems, has a way of putting things into perspective. Ryan Spencer, the frontman of Motor City three-piece Jamaican Queens, spent the bulk of a recent Q&A with Noisey talking about the sort of hair-raising danger he lives with everyday. “I hear stories from friends (and acquaintances) […]
ROCK N’ ROLL RUMBLE: NIGHTS 1-3
By Adam Parshall It’s finally here. Rock N’ Roll Rumble 2013. I’m still shaking in my Chucks from the crazy amount of music thrown at me over the last three nights. Between Sunday and Monday night, prescription there was plenty of rocking to be done. Three diverse bills and three semifinal spots at stake meant […]
THE SHILLS, MONIKER, JUICE, BEAR LANGUAGE, STRANGE CHANGES (3/30)
By Cailey Lindberg Photo Credit: Chris Anderson The bartender hands me a Heineken, try and I retreat to the side of the stage. The space is vast, pill and a LT Live sign reflects on the stage, as the photographer circles in while Strange Changes sets up. Strange Changes, the nine-headed musical freak of Allston, […]
AIDAN BAKER (AVIARY GALLERY & ART BOUTIQUE 3/29)
By Elissa May There’s a saying among your grandparents generation that children ought to be “seen and not heard”. At the Aidan Baker show at the Aviary Gallery in Jamaica Plain on Friday, viagra March 29th, I had the converse feeling about “noise” music: it should be heard and, perhaps, not seen. On Friday, Aidan […]

