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…
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…