Acid Mothers Temple played Great Scott – 4/4

Acid Mothers Temple played Great Scott – 4/4

Indefatigable Japanese psych-rock outfit Acid Mothers Temple headlined one of their yearly Boston gigs at Great Scott last Monday, with support from Michigan’s Mounds and locals Magic Shoppe. 

Savages played Paradise – 4/1

Savages played Paradise – 4/1

London post-punk quartet Savages returned to Boston on Friday night, touring in support of their 2016 sophomore studio LP Adore Life. 

Animal Collective + Coheed and Cambria played Boston and I had a weird night – 2/22

Animal Collective + Coheed and Cambria played Boston and I had a weird night – 2/22

Ok, these photos are ancient by news standards at this point, because I have no time to blog lately, but I still wanted to document my most incongruous double-booking of the year in (double) gallery format. 

Earthless and Elder played The Sinclair – 3/16

Earthless and Elder played The Sinclair – 3/16

San Diego shredders Earthless and Boston’s own Elder took over The Sinclair for a very loud Wednesday night.

Rangda and Major Stars played Out of the Blue Too – 3/5

Rangda and Major Stars played Out of the Blue Too – 3/5

Last Saturday, Cambridge’s Out of the Blue Too hosted a stellar double bill of exploratory psych-rock madness featuring Chris Corsano, Ben Chasny and Sir Richard Bishop’s Rangda and local luminaries Major Stars.

Wrekmeister Harmonies and Bell Witch played O’Brien’s Pub – 3/4

Wrekmeister Harmonies and Bell Witch played O’Brien’s Pub – 3/4

Friday night at Allston’s O’Brien’s Pub welcomed a supremely heavy bill topped by co-headliners in Chicago’s Wrekmeister Harmonies and Seattle duo Bell Witch.

Holy Holy played The Wilbur – 1/21

Holy Holy played The Wilbur – 1/21

Last Thursday, as I had the previous Thursday, I gathered with a group of mourning music fans for a David Bowie tribute show. In contrast to Out of the Blue’s rapidly assembled survey of our weird and wonderful local acts, however, Holy Holy’s stop at 

Black Beach, Earthquake Party and Lady Pills played Great Scott – 1/19

Black Beach, Earthquake Party and Lady Pills played Great Scott – 1/19

The fine folks at Allston Pudding put on a tour-return show for locals Black Beach and Midriffs at good old Great Scott on Tuesday night.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones played House of Blues – 12/26

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones played House of Blues – 12/26

Ok, one last 2015 blog post, and then the greener pastures of 2016 await (although they’ve been less green and pasture-like than grey and bleak thus far). Anyway, as I mentioned in my year-end post last week, this was the third year I’ve covered one 

Elvis Depressedly played Great Scott – 11/29

Elvis Depressedly played Great Scott – 11/29

I’m way behind on blogging because, despite my early predictions, December did not turn out to be a slow month. Anyway, here’s an orphaned photo set from a Sunday night show at the end of November with bummer North Carolina indie pop band Elvis Depressedly