Reviews

Former Boston natives The Magnetic Fields returned Friday night for the first of two shows at Berklee in support of their latest studio effort Love at the Bottom of the Sea.

Kevin Barnes and his merry band of musicians and costume changing ninjas descended on the Paradise Sunday night for a ridiculous and ridiculously fun show.

  British trio The Joy Formidable brought their anthemic tunes, a whole lot of ocean-themed props and New York City’s loudest band to a sold-out crowd at the Paradise on Friday night. Prior to the evening’s more theatrical elements, another New York band by the …

An extended weekend of great Boston shows began Thursday night at Brighton with self-described “loud British band” Swervedriver. Remarkably hard-to-Google shoegazers Heaven opened. Heaven is the New York-based project of Matt Sumrow, Ryan Lee Dunlap, and occasional Swervedriver drummer Mikey Jones. Bathed in a constant …

Another trek out to Allston last night to catch jangly British post-punk band The Wedding Present on their post-SXSW US tour. Toquiwa and The Jet Age opened. Hailing all the way from Tokyo, all-female guitar pop band Toquiwa offered up an impressive amount of energy …

I hadn’t exactly planned on seeing Odd Future last night, but when a friend called and asked if we should try to get in at the last minute, the answer was an immediate yes. We arrived at the House of Blues at least a half …

The other night, I wrote that I seriously doubted I’d have anything to report from this show that was nearly as exciting as the ‘My Sharona’ incident in Minneapolis. I was actually pretty wrong. Bradford Cox surprised and enthralled in a number of different ways …

Let’s just be clear on the fact that I am a total fanboy for The Twilight Sad. Their formula of loud-quiet-loud shoegaze-y post-punk on Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters struck exactly the right chord for me, and I’ve been following them ever since. I was …