The big news regarding Passion Pit’s winter tour may have been their headlining show at New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden, but their Sunday night performance at Agganis hardly felt like a footnote. Vocalist/songwriter Michael Angelakos and guitarist/keyboardist Ian Hultquist formed the band just across the river in Cambridge…
Given their fiercely New Jerseyan identity, you wouldn’t expect Titus Andronicus to have many connections to their home state’s more ambitious colonial sibling to the north–New England–but their rescheduled show last Sunday at The Sinclair revealed a few. Local scene stalwart Elio DeLuca joined the band on piano for a few songs, marking rare lineup usually reserved for studio recording sessions…
Christopher Owens definitely threw fans for a loop when he left Girls this past year, but his latest solo album, Lysandre, brought just as much sincerity as any project that he has previously put forth. As a concept album about a past love, Lysandre gives us a multilayer insight into Owens’ world…