Sitting at the bar in Great Scott at Saturday night all I could hear around me was the sound of everyone talking about how excited they were to see Tim Kasher. I was there to see Sinnet and I thought it strange that everyone would be so excited about the opener. It wasn’t till I […]
It’s 9pm on 3/11, the second night of the Old 97’s two-night engagement at The Sinclair. The crowd—not sold-out, as it was the night before, but still sizable and enthusiastic—is massing expectantly at the front, the roadies have finished prepping the stage, and the headliners, the legendary Old 97’s, who celebrate their 20th birthday this year, […]
Last Monday night, an eclectic crowd of Bostonians gathered at Paradise to see Night Moves and Django Django perform. Although it wasn’t a sold-out show, the venue was filled with a diverse gathering of fans…
Marissa Nadler‘s set at 826 Boston this last Friday was short but hauntingly beautiful (like one of those little spinning ballerina things your Mom had in her room as a kid). Her two song set was at the tail end of an evening of literary entertainment put together by McSweeney’s and The Rumpus as a […]
My co-worker urged me to take the time to listen to Vintage Trouble, a soul jive band that had recently opened for a Joss Stone concert that she went to. “Listen to this band. You’ll love it. They are playing TT the Bear’s in three weeks – come with us!” Two thoughts went through my […]
So the other Monday, March 4th, I was struck with the sudden urge to dance my face off, an urge so powerful that I found myself compelled, Pied-Piper-style, out of the cozy burg of Somerville and all the way across the river to Great Scott to hear a whopping THREE of the baker’s-dozen bands on […]
I won’t lie: I was apprehensive about seeing alt-J on the second night of their Boston weekend. If a band is doing a two-night run at the same venue, I tend to believe the first night will rock–the band is fresh, the crowd is better. I hadn’t read any reviews on their previous shows, so […]
Beck released twenty new songs in December. He didn’t record them; if you haven’t heard them, that’s probably why. They were released by McSweeney’s (Dave Egger’s creatively-published hip-lit/humor outfit) as Beck’s Song Reader in a real-as-you-me-and-America collection of music notation and full-color, old-timey nostalgia-soaked artwork…
Milo Greene doesn’t exist, cialis buy cialis and he never has. In fact, purchase there has never been anyone named Milo Greene. (I can’t actually prove that.) When three Los Angeles musicians (Marlana Sheetz, prescription Robbie Arnett, and Andrew Heringer) were struggling to book gigs, they created the persona Milo Greene, a fake British agent, […]
Going high-concept is a risky move for a band that is still finding its feet. Grandiose notions can collapse all too easily into superficial gimmickry if a young band gets caught up in them before it has mastered the basics. A cursory glance at Velah might easily arouse the suspicion that they have fallen into this very trap…