By Ben Stas Photos by Ben Stas Four Tet likely ranks among today’s least flashy performers of electronic music. In an era where most electronic shows are as much concerned with spectacle as sound, drugs a Four Tet performance still offers little in the way of visuals beyond one man and his table of gadgetry. That […]
By Ben Stas Photos by Ben Stas Converse brought their Rubber Tracks Live concert series to Boston recently for a stacked show featuring acts both local and national. Headlined by psychedelic synth-pop Brooklynites Yeasayer, viagra sale the show also brought Real Estate side project Ducktails and local crews Camden and Bodega Girls to the sold-out […]
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 […]
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
The Thermals, of Portland, Oregon, have been churning out intelligent and incredibly catchy pop-punk for the past decade. The band, consisting of guitarist/vocalist Hutch…
Boston’s punk and hardcore community came together for a massive show on May 6th to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. Housed in the dimly-lit basement of Quincy’s South Shore Music Hall…
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…
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 […]
“How’s everybody’s um, snowy Sunday?”
Lead singer of Allston based band Orca Orca, Jimmy Hewitt, mumbled this into the microphone on the disgustingly slushy night upon which his band as well as Beach Fossils illuminated the stage at TT The Bears…
The original four-year run of Boston post-punk crew Mission of Burma is the stuff of legend. The band released just one studio album, one EP and a live record after forming in 1979, but in those recordings, they laid the groundwork for innumerable noisy rock bands to come. Guitarist Roger Miller’s worsening tinnitus, brought on by the utterly bracing volume at which the band regularly performed, forced them to call it quits in 1983…