Brooklyn lo-fi basement rockers BOYTOY return to Boston on Thursday (2/28) to play TT the Bear’s Place with Sean Bones and Velah. The trio has only been kicking for a few months now, but have put out a series of top-notch demos, including “TV Dreams” below, and have gigged with the likes of The Growlers, Pretty & Nice, MMOSS, and You Can Be a Wesley, who they played with on New Years Eve at Allston Pudding’s Pizzeria Regina Throwdown…
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…
A cursory glance at the current slate of summer music festival lineups–namely Governor’s Ball, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, and even Delaware’s Firefly (yes, Delaware!)–already displays quite a bit of overlap. Mumford & Sons, Bjork, The Lumineers, The XX, Kendrick Lamar, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes, Of Monsters and Men…
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…
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…
The year is 2013 and countless promises of a new My Bloody Valentine record were echoed through the vast halls of the Internet. Kevin Shields had announced on January 27th that the new record would see the light of day within “2 or 3 days.”
Phil Jones, aka the brains behind psych-chillwave outfit Dog Bite may have dealt with the delicate from his time on the road as Washed Out’s keyboardist. But back on the road with his solo outfit, he’s causing a bit more destruction. Jones has become increasingly more experimental with Dog Bite’s music…
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…