Rising jazz luminary Kamasi Washington, fresh off the release of a breakthrough triple LP in The Epic, played to a packed Sinclair last month. The tenor saxophonist led his top-notch band through through a lengthy and adventurous setlist that touched upon his own record and the …
The dual projects of the inimitable Matt Pike present two very different models for the way a long-running band can function. Defining stoner metal trio Sleep didn’t manage to release a definitive version of their third LP until 5 years after they broke up, and …
Spacey alt-rockers Hum and Failure co-headlined Boston’s Royale for a sold-out Saturday night show earlier this month, delivering their complementary brands of towering guitar swirl to an enthusiastic crowd. Though both bands were primarily 90s concerns, they’re exhibiting different approaches to the whole reunion deal; …
U.K producer Jamie Smith has stepped out from the shadows of his role with moody trio The xx this year to release his solo debut, the vibrant and appropriately titled In Colour. Though he holds onto the ‘xx’ surname as a solo artist, his own work …
It’s been rough going for a Sonic Youth fan since 2011. The band’s indefinite hiatus in the wake of Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon’s separation has gradually revealed itself to be a permanent dissolution, much to our collective disappointment. Although 2009’s The Eternal was a …
Remember last September? Kind of a while ago. I shot 3 rolls of Ilford 400 on my Elan at the fall edition of Boston Calling and got them developed…last month. Someday I’ll get into a proper schedule for shooting and developing film, but obviously not …
Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival returned to the MASS MOCA back in June, featuring two headlining sets from its hosts along with performances from Real Estate, Mac DeMarco, Speedy Ortiz, Parquet Courts and many more. I photographed the weekend for Tastemakers, and took some 35mm shots …
Ah June. A strange month of music-going. In-between steady shooting gigs and in the midst of moving, I managed to catch a strange combination of newspaper assignments and last-minute shows which covered everything from Rush to Richard Thompson and Refused before concluding at a sweaty …
Sometimes there are three shows happening on one night that you’d want to shoot. Sometimes you decide that Mastodon would be cool but you don’t actually want to see Clutch. Sometimes you can’t find an email address for Primal Scream’s North American publicist. Sometimes you …
Genre-bending Brooklyn experimentalists Zs played one of the early shows I reviewed for this blog way back at the end of 2012. They were mindblowing then, and they’re mindblowing now. The cramped confines of the packed basement at JP’s Deep Thoughts offered a different experience than …