The second coming of Michael Gira’s mighty Swans is on tour in support of this year’s gargantuan double album The Seer, bringing a pummeling and mild-altering two-and-a-half hour show to the Paradise on Thursday night. Gypsy-folk duo A Hawk and Hacksaw opened.
Legendary Canadian post-rock pioneers Godspeed You! Black Emperor are in the midst of their first full US tour in nearly a decade, which stopped over at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre last Monday night. Boston’s own Glenn Jones opened the show.
Buzz- and bass-heavy experimental electronic duo Purity Ring played a free outdoor show at the Northeastern University campus Saturday evening.
Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and St. Vincent mastermind Annie Clark recently teamed up for a record as well as a tour. They made their way to Boston’s Orpheum on Sunday night.
Recurrent tour-mates Callers and Wye Oak showcased different but complementary sounds running the gamut from jazz to shoegaze at Brighton Music Hall last Wednesday.
The Jesus and Mary Chain, notoriously short-tempered Scottish noise-pop pioneers, are in the midst of a reunion tour which brought them to the Paradise for two consecutive nights earlier this month. The Vandelles and The Psychic Paramount opened.
Former Hüsker Dü member and Sugar frontman Bob Mould stopped by the Paradise last Monday for a sold out show featuring songs new and old, as well as an opening set from Cymbals Eat Guitars.
Drone-doom legends/fog enthusiasts Sunn O))) returned to Boston on Tuesday night for the first time in six years, and brought their Earth-rattling wall of amplifiers with them. Southern Lord label-mates Dead in the Dirt opened.
The final stop on Brooklyn art-rock crew Dirty Projectors’ Swing Lo Magellan tour brought them to the Paradise Sunday night, with support from Callers.
Touring their first new recorded output since 1999, former Massachusetts natives Sebadoh played the Middle East Downstairs last Wednesday with support from…themselves.