The Great Googa Mooga (Prospect Park 5/17 – 5/19)

By Neil Patch Photos by Daniel Schiffer While rain ultimately defeated Prospect Park’s Great Googa Mooga in its second year of existence, and it successfully demonstrated a model of how to combine a neighborhood community festival with wider regional (and perhaps national) attention. Googa Mooga bills itself as an “amusement park of food, salve drink […]

Flying Lotus, Teebs, and Thundercat (Paradise 5/12)

By Ben Stas Photos by Ben Stas If you expected that Flying Lotus’ current live show would reflect the chilled-out, buy downtempo vibes of his 2012 record Until the Quiet Comes, you’d be dead wrong. Steven Ellison, who’s been making jazz-inflected experimental electronica under the Flying Lotus moniker since 2006, shook the Sunday night malaise […]

The Breeders (Royale 5/9)

One can’t technically say that The Breeders are in the midst of a reunion tour. The band never so much broke up as underwent numerous lineup shifts that rendered Pixies bassist Kim Deal its only permanent member. Still, their May 9th show at the Royale carried with it the atmosphere of a long-awaited return. 2013 is the 20-year anniversar

Mykki Blanco & Boychild (Great Scott 4/27)

By Emily Onofrio Photo Credit: Emily Onofrio When Mykki Blanco takes the stage at Great Scott, sickness the first thing she does is bring a dozen of her fans up with her, viagra 100mg lining them in a disjointed semi-circle around the outer edges of the platform, successfully boxing herself in on all sides. “Alright,” […]