Love ’em or over ’em, The Dropkick Murphy’s are perhaps the biggest representatives of Boston music out there today. Because of this, it pleases me to see singer/bassist Ken Casey defend both his beliefs and the reputation of his band by beating the shit out of a skinhead doing the Nazi salute on stage. The […]
Devendra Banhart’s new album Mala has been met with some pretty favorable reviews. You can check out a track from that album below. Now the freak folkster is plotting his trek around the country for this Spring and Summer. Lucky for us, his voyage includes a stop in Boston at the Wilbur Theatre. Interesting… Check […]
Free Time, the New York-via-Melbourne quartet lead by Dion Nania, has announced plans to release their self titled debut album via Underwater Peoples on 5/28. Free Time’s hazy, melodic brand of indie rock fits right in with their label-mates like Real Estate, Ducktails, and Big Troubles. The band also posted the album’s first single, “Nothin […]
Once you’re done streaming the new Strokes album, you can check out these two new tracks from Brooklyn’s homeboys Vampire Weekend. You always know a Vamp Weekend song when you hear it and these tracks are no different, but there are some wild things that Ezra Koenig is doing with his voice that are […]
It’s always tease, tease, tease with The Strokes. A little taste of a new track that kinda sucks here, a little taste of a new track that’s kinda groovy there, but now you can listen to their new album, “Comedown Machine,” in its full glory via Pitchfork advance. Now is your chance to form your […]
Afraid Of Heights, the new record from California pop punkers Wavves, is out on 3/28 via Mom + Pop, but the band is offerring a free stream of the entire album a week before its release. The new album is the band’s follow up to their 2011 Life Sux Ep and 2010’s King of the Beach. Listen to […]
Ask, and ye shall receive. We got a bunch of requests to run a Jukebox The Ghost giveaway and look what we have here. Fill out the form below to enter to win a pair of tickets to the show at Brighton Music Hall on 3/21. Bonus entry: if in addition to filling out the […]
Local quintet Mals Totem are new to the scene, with only a few releases to their name, but their new in-studio video for “Gargantuan” shows quite clearly that they’re force to be reckoned with. Progressive, but a near-perfect balance of experimental and bared-down, the track showcases the band’s synergy, and ability to lock up rhythmically […]
Starfucker tonight at Paradise Today In The B: Starfucker, Blackbird Blackbird at Paradise The Macrotones, Evolfo Doofeht at Johnny D’s Matt and Shannon Heaton at Beehive John Doney, Scarlet Drive, Echo & Drake, The American Blues, JT Lockwood at Middle East Downstairs Empire Street, My New Disaster, Rubikon at Middle East Upstairs Tim Kasher, […]
As most of you are aware by now, seek The Boston Phoenix closed its doors yesterday, viagra announcing that today’s issue would be it’s last. Along with the legendary alt-weekly, decease it’s partner online radio station, WFNX, will also be shutting down for good. The Providence Phoenix and Portland Phoenix will continue to publish. To […]