Staff List: VDay 2k14
Whether you’re smangin, crying, shooting up, or just filling your face with chocolate you bought at CVS, you’ll need some tracks to listen to. Just remember that music will never cheat on you…
Tag Archives: Helen Chen
Bass Drum of Death, Thunderbloods and Vundabar bring the heat in February (Great Scott 2/3)
Bass Drum of Death, Thunderbloods and Vundabar performed a thrilling night of lo-fi garage rock at The Great Scott on February 3rd, 2014.
In Defense Of… Crowd Pushing
Hi there, you’ve probably met me at a show before. I introduced myself as ‘excuse me’, and the duration of our relationship was brief. Our first contact was a push…
James Blake / Nosaj Thing (House of Blues 11/5)
By Helen Chen Photos by Jeeyoon Kim The moment I saw the sleek, sale black and minimalist flyer for the James Blake and Nosaj Thing tour, I told my roommate that we just had to go. I was amped to be spending a night in the swirling splendor of such chill and beautiful musicians, with […]
To Elliott
This past Monday marked the 10 year anniversary of celebrated folk rock singer Elliott Smith’s passing. Allston Pudding’s Helen Chen and Sami Martasian have a few words to say about the remarkable complexity of the artist…
Franz Ferdinand and Frankie Rose (Orpheum)
Allston Pudding’s Chloe Gomez and Helen Chen teamed up to review and photograph Brooklyn based Frankie Rose and Glasgow based Franz Ferdinand at The Orpheum Theater on Sunday night Frankie Rose While Rose’s ethereal pop tunes are better suited for a smaller open spaced club venue rather than seats in a down sloped theatre (Oh […]
Two Door Cinema Club (Royale 10/5/13)
Northern Irish band Two Door Cinema Club quickly rose to indie rock glory from the debut of their album Tourist History in 2010, and their first show out of two weekend nights at the Royale (followed by a special dj-set dance party which this unfortunately underage writer could not attend) sealed their claim to fame.
WAVVES AND FIDLAR (BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL 4/8)
By Helen Chen If you are allergic to guitars or have that disease where your bones are the consistency of glass, hospital you would have most assuredly died at the Wavves and Fidlar show at Brighton Music Hall on a moshtastic Monday night. ‘They certainly don’t call it noise rock for no reason’ was the […]
SURRENDERING TO BEACH FOSSILS (TT the Bear’s 2/24)
“How’s everybody’s um, snowy Sunday?”
Lead singer of Allston based band Orca Orca, Jimmy Hewitt, mumbled this into the microphone on the disgustingly slushy night upon which his band as well as Beach Fossils illuminated the stage at TT The Bears…
THE VACCINES & SAN CISCO (PARADISE 1/29)
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…