Meatbodies, Purling Hiss, and Krill at Great Scott (10/28)
Meatbodies, accompanied by Purling Hiss and Krill, rocked Great Scott last week. Check out why you should have checked them out in the first place.
Hozier’s Halloween Spooktacular (Paradise 10/31)
Hozier pulled out all of the stops in a unique show on Halloween night, which involved silly string, candy corn and masks.
REVIEW: Beats Antique Get Weird At The Creature Carnival
The psychedelic trio bring a vaudevillian spectacle to the House of Blues.
REVIEW: Dum Dum Girls at the Sinclair Were Slick as Heck
Sometimes I feel like I’ve taken Dum Dum Girls for granted. By show’s end, I understood the appeal.
REVIEW: Speedy Ortiz, Ex Hex, Pile at Great Scott (10/30)
We made a list of the best moments from the Ex Hex/Speedy show at Great Scott, so you can regret not going even more.
This Will Destroy You at Brighton Music Hall (10/30)
Jack Wall Photos by David Kinchen Throughout roughly an hour and a half, the genre-defining post rock quartet, This Will Destroy You, moved me through a beautiful spectrum of emotions: excited to peaceful to serenely melancholy. TWDY’s music strikes at emotion so tangible and poignant that I saw more than a few eyes water up […]
REVIEW: Rodrigo y Gabriela (10/29)
Rodrigo y Gabriela stop by the Orpheum and blow us away with some pretty sweet acoustic Metallica covers.
Best of CMJ: Non-Boston Bands You Need to Know
Allston Pudding did some investigating at CMJ to find rising non-Boston acts you need to know.
This or That Halloween Special: The Wytches
With a name like The Wytches, this surf-doom rock trio from Brighton, UK was born to partake in a Halloween-themed interview with us. Check out the video here!
Review: Angus and Julia Stone (10/23)
Angus and Julia Stone brought their bro-sis folk-pop act to the Sinclair and played a pretty sweet Drake cover.