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 […]
So for those of you hibernating under rocks, there’s this dude who dresses up in a bear costume and plays the melody and riffs to R&B/Pop songs on a keytar. He’s been doing it in subway stations and…
By Nick Canton Britt Daniel, of Spoon and The Divine Fits, despite planning the release of Spoon’s first album in four years sometime in 2014, has taken on another supergroup side-project. It’s called Split Single and it features Jon Wurster, the drummer of Superchunk and The Mountain Goats, as well as Jason Narducy, who I’m […]
Converse Rubber Tracks live presented Ryan Hemsworth, Giraffage, Wave Racer and Bearstronaut (not reviewed) at The Sinclair on March 18th.
By Nick Canton It was far too hopeful when Sufjan Stevens mentioned we wouldn’t be waiting as long between Age of Adz and his next album, but in the meantime, or perhaps instead, we have his hip-hop/pop team-up with Sergenti and Son Lux, the band and album of which are called Sisyphus. And you can stream […]
By Nick Canton Brooklyn’s The Men played Great Scott last Sunday night as they begin their tour to promote the new record Tomorrow’s Hits, which was released yesterday. I spoke to keyboardist Mark Perro last week, which you can read here. For the bands that preceded them, there was the darkened neon “Tomorrow’s Hits” sign […]
By Nick Canton Last week, White Denim played two sold-out shows at the Sinclair on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. I had seen them last year at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival and as I expected, it was a few white guys wearing blue jeans. I was interested in seeing them again, because although I remember having […]
I got a chance to speak with Mark Perro, one of the founding members of Brooklyn-based punk outfit The Men, in anticipation for their upcoming show at the Great Scott on 3/2 and their new LP Tomorrow’s Hits, which will be released two days later on Sacred Bones.
By Nick Canton Photos by Jonathan Mehring Last Thursday night put an end to the House of Vans celebration at Middle East Downstairs, featuring the bands Anamanaguchi, Baths, and a special guest. The special mystery guest of the night that was advertised on all the press? Weeknight! I don’t think anyone had really heard of […]
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…