R.I.P. Krill / Krill forever. The beloved Boston trio bid farewell to the city with a night of two sold-out shows at Great Scott last week. I’m not the person to eulogize the band, but they were a local institution who meant a lot to …
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 …
The beloved and recently reunited Luna, fronted by Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham, headlined a sold-out show at the Paradise last weekend.
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 …