Interview: The Susan Constant
Bursting with heart and stamina, five-piece power-poppers The Susan Constant seem to blend everything great about the 80’s/90’s alternative rock canon into unbelievably catchy three-minute sonic…
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Savages (Middle East Downstairs 7/12)
By Neil Patch Photos by Matthew Shelter Your enjoyment of a Savages concert depends entirely upon how easily you agree with what an artist is telling you to believe. The London-based quartet is a band with an overt and critical message for Western society best summed up by the title of their debut LP: Silence […]
UNIFY Teams with Together to Brings Aid to Middle East (6/16)
Meet UNIFY, a group of high school students from Prospect Hill Academy Charter School who have partnered with Together to put on an event this Sunday at the Middle East in order to raise money for the One Fund…
Four Tet (Middle East Downstairs 5/14)
By Ben Stas Photos by Ben Stas Four Tet likely ranks among today’s least flashy performers of electronic music. In an era where most electronic shows are as much concerned with spectacle as sound, drugs a Four Tet performance still offers little in the way of visuals beyond one man and his table of gadgetry. That […]
The Brain Trust Celebrates Three Years at Middle East
Local production company giants The Brain Trust have worked their fingers to the bone the past three years to make sure that electronic and hip-hop music is alive and represented in our city. Transforming from a hybrid record-label/production company in their inception, The Brain Trust now takes on everything from event planning to marketing campaigns […]
THE GURU KICKS OFF A CLASSIC (MIDDLE EAST 2/28)
I had been waiting for Mac DeMarco to arrive in Boston ever since picking up his Rock n Roll Nightclub EP last fall just after Pop Montreal. But there are some things you write about to try and provide insight, and other things you just leave alone and keep for yourself. I had to just sit back and enjoy Mac’s set last Thursday, especially since I have a feeling that next time he’s in town, it won’t be in such a smaller setting.
POTTY MOUTH, HILLY EYE, SLUTEVER, TOMBOY (MIDDLE EAST 2/11)
So I popped into the Middle East Upstairs for an evening of all-female rock ‘n’ roll. Yes, let’s just get it out there and be done with it: all four bands that took the stage that night—Tomboy, Slutever, Hilly Eye, and Potty Mouth—consisted entirely of women. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo-on-a-stick. Now that’s all I’m going to say about that, because the sex of that Monday night’s performers was not the point of the show…
BIG DIPPER & THE ZAMBONIS (MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS 2/2)
There may be two Big Dippers out there, but let’s talk about the one from Boston in the 80’s: the one that would influence future indy pop bands with their addictive licks and unforgettably energetic party ballads; the one that ended up buried away in the sands of history like pirate gold…
MMOSS, GROWLERS, AND BOYTOY (MIDDLE EAST UPSTAIRS 1/26)
Saturday’s bill of psychedelic goodness at the Middle East was everything one could hope for and more. From the DIY light show, glass plates, colored dyes and actual human operators, to the sea of hipsters dressed in their finest skinny jeans and hoodies, the sold out show was packed to the the brim with…