Tag Archives: Ben Stas
PHOTOS: Wicked Good Festival is Fun and Free for All
PHOTOS: Mal Blum, Jessica Lea Mayfield @ Great Scott
Give a Glimpse of What You Got: A Night with Dinosaur Jr.
Boston Music Awards 2016 Nominees
Boston Music Awards Nominations Are Out!
By Jennifer Usovicz We are super excited to announce that we are nominated for Best Music Blog at the Boston Music Awards! You can vote for the awards NOW here! Congrats to staff photographer (and homie) Ben Stas for getting nominated for Best Live Music Photographer for the 2015 Boston Music Awards! Ben Stas, aside […]
DINOSAUR JR. (12/15) – The Sinclair
By Ben Stas Photos by Ben Stas Eight years removed from their 2005 reunion, sick cure the shock of Dinosaur Jr.’s original lineup reconvening as a full-time rock band has seemingly worn off. Whatever internal turmoil drove guitarist J Mascis and bassist Lou Barlow apart at the end of the 80s is long since old […]
Sleigh Bells Bring the Noise to Royale (11/16)
Caspian (The Sinclair 11/5)
By Ben Stas Photos by Ben Stas It wouldn’t be unreasonable to characterize Tuesday’s sold-out show at The Sinclair as a demonstration of the state of post-rock in 2013. The term, viagra which came into vogue in the late 90s to describe the slow build, view long-form, nurse largely instrumental music that bands like Mogwai, […]
Fiona Apple (Emerson Colonial Theatre 10/23)
Fiona Apple’s extended absence from the public eye between 2005’s Extraordinary Machine and last year’s The Idler Wheel… was nothing out of the ordinary for the beloved singer-songwriter. Her career, which now spans nearly two decades, has produced just four studio albums; a leisurely working pace to say the least…