By Nick Canton (Note: Gobby and Curse Purse don’t seem to have a site/Bandcamp/Facebook page for more information) I went to what was billed as a noise-rock show, put on by Boston Hassle at the Middlesex Lounge last Wednesday. Having never been to a noise-rock show, I didn’t really know what I was in for, […]
By Nick Canton Last Wednesday at the Great Scott, Lee Bains III showed up from Alabama to put on a fierce energy-driven southern punk show and had Northeast friends Alpenglow and Forts/Gainesville open. On TV at Great Scott: Ocean’s 12, Jeepers Creepers 2 Forts/Gainesville took the stage first, starting with a calm and droning plucked […]
By Nick Canton Photos by Rebecca Hildreth WERS, Emerson College’s awesome student-run radio station, celebrated its 65th birthday last Friday at the Sinclair by having some great (and not) Boston bands, who’ve been on their station a bit, come out and play them a show. They gave out free bladder canteens! Bentshapesbentshapesbentshapes, I probably don’t […]
Leeds, England’s Eagulls are currently touring the US in support of their brand new self-titled album, and they’ll be playing The Great Scott on Wednesday night…
There was a full bill set to play at Roggie’s in Cleveland Circle last Wednesday night. If you’ve been paying attention to Boston gossip, you won’t be surprised to hear that it didn’t happen…
By Nick Canton Power duo Sleepy Kitty, hailing from “St. Louis via Chicago” according to their Facebook, are touring the United States and Canada and were kind enough to play a set at T. T. The Bear’s Place this past Sunday. Right off the bat, their setup was pretty unfamiliar: recently I’ve seen a lot […]
By Nick Canton Photos by Graham Zinger Cambridge has been getting a whole lot of corporate-sponsored-free-concert-love and I couldn’t be happier. This one wasn’t put on by a shoe company as we’ve come to expect, instead sponsored by Pandora Presents. It was smaller in scale from House of Vans’s week-long and tons-of-bands residency, but like […]
By Nick Canton We’ve had these features on the blog called “In Defense of…” where we stand up for something music-related that we feel needs it. In the past it’s been a band, or an audience opinion, or an unpopular feature at concerts. But I just discovered that Wikipedia has an article titled “List of […]
By Nick Canton White Hinterland opened for S. Carey last Thursday at a packed and sold out Great Scott, and while I couldn’t make sense of billing these two acts together, I feel like it should have definitely been the reverse order. So I saw local-but-bigger-than-local act White Hinterland like, what, three months ago? She […]
By Nick Canton Last Sunday night at Great Scott Orca Orca held a release show for their new 7” The Shallows. The bill had four bands, tadalafil kind of a lot for Great Scott which usually has two to three bands per night. I wasn’t sure if they’d be abbreviated sets because I live […]