Wang Center? Citi Wang Theatre? Citi Performing Arts Center? No one has any idea what downtown’s most ornate performance space is actually called anymore. It’s quite a beautiful place to see a show though, and probably the Boston area’s best-suited venue to the rare and …
Reflections on and photos from day two at a divisive fall edition of Boston Calling.
Let it be known that Low are one of the great enduring American rock bands. “Rock” is of course a term applied very loosely in this case, but the point stands. The Duluth, Minnesota based trio – centered on founding husband-and-wife duo Alan Sparhawk and …
Cuisine En Locale’s bill on the 18th was stacked no matter how you look at it, but the announcement a few days prior that it would be the beloved Krill’s second-to-last Boston show before the band’s untimely demise lent an unexpectedly heavy air to the …
British retro-doom quartet Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats are fresh off the release of solid new LP The Night Creeper, and currently embarking on their second headlining trek across North America.
The extent of my knowledge of Scorpions prior to a week ago was that they were from Germany and wrote “Rock You Like A Hurricane,” which is kind of the ultimate Big Dumb Rock Song. Apparently, they’re celebrating their 50th (!) anniversary this year and …
I planned on attending much of the Boston end of Exploding In Sound’s “Thank You For Being a Friend” weekend and then, for a variety of reasons, made it to precisely one show. However, that show was Pile and it was pretty great. The Boston mainstays …
Gothic luminary Chelsea Wolfe played to a sold-out crowd at Cambridge’s Sinclair on Saturday night, supporting her intense new LP Abyss. As one might expect, it was a dramatic, moody performance that resulted in some strikingly spooky imagery. Wovenhand, the five-piece band led by singer-songwriter David Eugene …
July marked the end of the road for Cambridge’s storied TT the Bear’s place, but not before a special series of farewell shows and events. I missed most of the headline-generators, including surprise gigs from The Pixies and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, but I figured …
Well it’s not every day you get to shoot AC/DC. The beloved Australian rockers opened their first U.S. tour in five years at Gillette Stadium on August 22nd, and I was on the scene for the Globe. Naturally, the show included a slew of the …