“You’d think a lot of bands would half-ass a free show,” remarked one particularly stunned fan as a capacity crowd filed out of The Sinclair on a late Thursday evening, “but they brought it.” They, of course, were Metz, the Canadian noise rock trio…
It’s hard to deny that the release of Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail could have gone a bit smoother. Despite the promise of his technology-based #NewRules promotional campaign with Samsung…
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We’re giving away a pair of tickets to MTV Iggy and Intel’s The Music Experiment 2.0 featuring Disclosure at a secret Boston location on August 7th.
Newport is a hell of a place, and along with its insurmountable summer atmosphere comes a bounty of tradition and history. That sense of tradition has carried over into the resort town’s premiere summer event: the Newport Folk Festival. While recent years have reflected a stretch towards other genres, 2013 went back to the Festival’s roots and remained more tethered to the standard perception of folk.
Allston Pudding presents the Localz Only July Mixtape featuring Bent Shapes, Space Mountain, Silkies, Bellwire, Windbreaker and many more.
The prevailing “slacker” narrative about Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts is a monumental misdirection. While the band’s debut full-length Light Up Gold contains lines like “slackers conference at the buffet table“ and the chronicles at least one epic journey for snacks (“Stoned and Starving”)…
We’re giving away four pairs of tickets to The Nines Festival in Devens Massachusetts on Saturday August 10th (3 pairs of standard and one pair VIP)! Click on through to enter!
Chinese punk rock is a lot like Chinese street food — rough, honest, loud and maybe even less healthy. If punk rock is a reaction to social alienation then there is no better place for punk music…
Straight off the hot-as-hell Brooklyn album release show, Speedy Ortiz packed Great Scott front to back to celebrate one of 2013’s greatest releases.
(Click through to check out footage of the band performing “No Below”)
Fitting, perhaps, that Deafheaven came to town just as a sweltering heat wave seized Boston in its clutches. They seem like amiable guys in real life, but on stage Deafheaven are a white-hot blast of (ahem) deafening intensity.