Late last month Imagine Dragons loaded into the Boston House of Blues for yet another sold out show on their Night Visions tour. Touring with Australian indie-rock band Atlas Genius and LA’s three piece rock band Nico Vega, pharm this was not a show I was looking to miss. Imagine Dragons’ current members formed their increasingly […]
I had been waiting for Mac DeMarco to arrive in Boston ever since picking up his Rock n Roll Nightclub EP last fall just after Pop Montreal. But there are some things you write about to try and provide insight, and other things you just leave alone and keep for yourself. I had to just sit back and enjoy Mac’s set last Thursday, especially since I have a feeling that next time he’s in town, it won’t be in such a smaller setting.
The year was 2005. I had just overcome my fixation with overalls and took up a new, illness soon-to-be regretful fascination with argyle sweater vests. I was a mess. Though it was during this period in my life, ailment fresh from the eggshells of my quaint youth, try when I first fell in love – […]
In the land of the jams, price the bands with the tightest of grooves is King—and last Friday, my honorable drooges, your faithful narrator followed three Kings from the East into Paradise and was treated to sights and sounds from atop the Mountain of High Minded Vibes. Your devoted chronicler thrust himself into the midst […]
“How’s everybody’s um, snowy Sunday?”
Lead singer of Allston based band Orca Orca, Jimmy Hewitt, mumbled this into the microphone on the disgustingly slushy night upon which his band as well as Beach Fossils illuminated the stage at TT The Bears…
11 o’clock, the stage lights turn off. The crowd at TT the Bear’s is bathed in darkness. Whispers arise from the audience regarding the possible power outage and the fact that we can feel the rumble of bass beneath our feet from the show at Middle East Downstairs. After standing in the dark for what seems like forever, we see Lady Lamb the Beekeeper take the stage…
On a recent Tuesday night, the recently opened Sinclair in Cambridge, which could be considered a mini House Of Blues, welcomed two of the tightest indie bands of right now, The Front Bottoms and Bad Books. I took the opportunity to check this new venue out, to see some familiar faces (The Front Bottoms), and […]
So I popped into the Middle East Upstairs for an evening of all-female rock ‘n’ roll. Yes, let’s just get it out there and be done with it: all four bands that took the stage that night—Tomboy, Slutever, Hilly Eye, and Potty Mouth—consisted entirely of women. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo-on-a-stick. Now that’s all I’m going to say about that, because the sex of that Monday night’s performers was not the point of the show…
The long awaited journey paid it forward for Brighton, England’s indie rock sensation The Maccabees Friday Night at The Sinclair. The band braved Nemo to perform on the second week of their tour and their first show in Boston ever…
Why? fans are a unique breed—once they love Why?, they’ll love Why? to the end. Thus, it wasn’t too surprising when virtually every attendee of the sold-out show rapped along to each idiosyncratic word that front man Yoni Wolf uttered during the night’s unforgettable performance at Brighton Music Hall—even down to the wop-wop-wops…