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 …