By Lindsey Mann Photos Courtesy of Alexandra Rahman and RepRecords Christmas lights twinkle to the rhythm of the drums, healing paper lanterns float like orbs, seek the stage swirls with groovy purples, greens, blues, and the crowd sways in response. This is the weekend before finals? Nothing stops the need to groove for Bostonian college kids […]
The night that surrounded the Pissed Jeans performance I saw was very surreal. I can’t even be sure exactly why. Perhaps it was my first time being backstage in such a large venue, perhaps it was all the free PBR…
It has been a long, strange April. The 2013 Rock N’ Roll Rumble has sadly come to a close, and now all involved can go back to semi-normal sleeping schedules (not really). Either way, Friday night was the perfect way to bring an end to a great, and, at sometimes, ridiculously chaotic, Rock N’ Roll Rumble. Here’s a quick recap of Friday’s events before we get to some takeaways that we can dwell on for the next year.
By Adam Parshall Because of the chaos of last week I have been awful about writing, cialis getting sleep, and doing much else aside from drinking coffee and being a zombie. Be that as it may, I’m getting back on the horse of spouting what I think I know about music, and Rumble Finals seem […]
By Rob Dornenburg Photo Credit: Rob Dornenburg In the 5 years since Zozobra, find the side-project of Cave-In bassist Caleb Scofield, order last released a record, the metal landscape in America has changed drastically. The sludgy, prog-imbued sound that Zozobra and bands like Kylesa, Baroness, and Mastodononce embraced has all but disappeared, with most of […]
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 […]
By Ben Stas Photo Credit: Ben Stas A night of weird wonders awaited those who ventured to the Sinclair for a Sunday evening bill headlined by Thurston Moore’s Chelsea Light Moving. Moore is best known as a founding member of the legendary Sonic Youth, pharmacy unhealthy and he’s been a trailblazing figure in indie and […]
By Christine Varriale Photo Credit: Christine Varriale Allison Weiss hadn’t played a show in Boston in over a year. To her dearest fans, search this was the show they had been waiting for all spring, order and with the bill of Pentimento, Candy Hearts, and Maura supporting her at Great Scott on April 3rd, the crowd […]
Caitlin Rose brought her dusty alt-country songbook to TT The Bear’s recently, and tried to warm up the shivering masses on a too-cold Tuesday night. Rose is on the road in support of her second album, The Stand-In, released last month to much critical praise. But the 25-year-old Nashville native…
By Nick Cox Photo Credit: Ellie Molitor Detroit, it seems, has a way of putting things into perspective. Ryan Spencer, the frontman of Motor City three-piece Jamaican Queens, spent the bulk of a recent Q&A with Noisey talking about the sort of hair-raising danger he lives with everyday. “I hear stories from friends (and acquaintances) […]