The big news regarding Passion Pit’s winter tour may have been their headlining show at New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden, but their Sunday night performance at Agganis hardly felt like a footnote. Vocalist/songwriter Michael Angelakos and guitarist/keyboardist Ian Hultquist formed the band just across the river in Cambridge…
“I could do my work and go to bed, but I party instead.” sang David Hunddleston last Friday night at Church in Boston. This mentality infuses meaning into the heart and soul of Boston’s Biscuits and Gravy, a funk and soul septet determined to bring you deep into the night with sexy rhythms…
Monday night’s Modern Hut/Waxahatchee show, originally booked at Allston’s fabled Dreamhaus, was moved last-minute to Charlie’s Kitchen on account of an unfortunate burglary. So off I went to good old Harvard Square to sip Narragansett and take in a night of wildly incongruous but consistently enjoyable music…
Electronic producers Mord Fustang (Plasmapool) and Feed Me (Mau5trap) took Royale by storm February 5th with an unbelievable performance. The ambience of Royale fit well with the nature the performance; kind of an 18th century Britain meets new-age European Electro-House.
There may be two Big Dippers out there, but let’s talk about the one from Boston in the 80’s: the one that would influence future indy pop bands with their addictive licks and unforgettably energetic party ballads; the one that ended up buried away in the sands of history like pirate gold…
Soul and funk tunes filled the Royale Sunday night while the boisterous crowd anxiously awaited the arrival of sold-out headliner Allen Stone. With soul on the mind, the genre conjures up the classic images of James Brown’s effervescent moves, chills from Aretha Franklin earth-shattering belts…
The Vaccines and San Cisco delivered a stellar show at Paradise, performing a fantastic collection of songs straight off of the post break up mixtape of an endearingly disheveled, broding, beanie wearing boy sulking down the streets of Allston…
The last time I saw Shovels and Rope was back in August amidst a modest yet lively crowd at Johnny D’s. The top of Cary Ann Hearst’s curly head and Michael Trent’s trucker hat barely popped up above the standing audience from their position on the tiny stage…
Given their fiercely New Jerseyan identity, you wouldn’t expect Titus Andronicus to have many connections to their home state’s more ambitious colonial sibling to the north–New England–but their rescheduled show last Sunday at The Sinclair revealed a few. Local scene stalwart Elio DeLuca joined the band on piano for a few songs, marking rare lineup usually reserved for studio recording sessions…
Christopher Owens definitely threw fans for a loop when he left Girls this past year, but his latest solo album, Lysandre, brought just as much sincerity as any project that he has previously put forth. As a concept album about a past love, Lysandre gives us a multilayer insight into Owens’ world…