Gig Watch: November 2023
Shows not to miss in and around Boston for the month of November.
Tag: deafheaven
Deafheaven, Holy Fawn, Midwife played Royale – 3/9
Black metal shoegazers Deafheaven brought a typically well-curated touring bill to Boston’s Royale a few Wednesdays back.
Boston’s Week-That-Would’ve-Been – 3/29-4/4
Surveying the weekly live music void in the pandemic age.
Top Records of 2015
This was an exceptionally good year for music. I don’t get around to writing about albums nearly as much as I write about live shows, so I thought I’d take the year-end opportunity to get some thoughts down on what resonated with me in 2015. …
Deafheaven played Royale – 11/3
If we’ve met, you’re probably aware of my feelings on Deafheaven. The California-based black/post/gaze/whatever-metal band have been one of my favorite working acts since the release of their 2013 breakthrough Sunbather, and I talk about this frequently. They released their third record, New Bermuda, in October and …
R.I.P. TT’s: A post-mortem on Boston’s most poorly-lit venue
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 …
Pitchfork Music Festival on 35mm
It was a busy end of summer, a busy entirety of fall and a busy beginning of winter – I did not have very much time to scan film. Now, however, the mystery of the 6 rolls of Ilford 400 I shot at my two …