The Boston Calling Music Festival returned to City Hall Plaza a few weekends back for its September edition, featuring sets from Vampire Weekend, Passion Pit, Kendrick Lamar, The Gaslight Anthem, Local Natives, Solange, Okkervil River and more. I was there once again to write and …
Former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook is up to his old tricks again. Namely, he’s touring classic albums by his prior bands with The Light, a crew consisting of members of Hook’s Moncaco project and his son, Jack Bates. After tours which …
Great Scott hosted a particularly unique set of performers on this third night of September, featuring prolific British musician Richard Youngs, ex-Galaxie 500 members Damon & Naomi and Australian oddballs Mad Nanna. Youngs, a sonic chameleon who has been making diverse, uncompromising music since the …
Southern sludge metal crew Baroness, fully recovered and sporting a new rhythm section following a bus accident last August that threatened to derail them for good, played a triumphant show at Royale in August with support from Royal Thunder. My photos are up with the …
The Sinclair was the site of a typically out-of-control show from California punks Ceremony a few weeks back. I reviewed the show for Allston Pudding, and the full photo gallery is up here.
Providence’s Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel paid host to a rare East Coast appearance from Oakland post-sludge-metal gods Neurosis on Saturday night. I was there to document the legendary and elusive band in all their crushing glory.
My July ended on a danceable note with New York City’s Holy Ghost! and Britain’s legendary New Order at Bank of America Pavilion. This one felt worthy of exposition, so my Tastemakers review is accordingly rather long. The photos turned out pretty nice too, if …
You may recall that Metz had a Boston show scheduled back in April at Brighton Music Hall – on marathon Monday, in fact. In light of the bombings, much of the city was closed for the night and the show wound up being cancelled. Lucky …
Just a week after Pitchfork, I tackled my second major festival in a row with Newport Folk. The vibes were certainly different, but Newport was an equally satisfying experience in different ways. Highlights this year included Beck, Andrew Bird, Father John Misty and The Mountain …
Another summer draws toward a close, another Death Grips show gets cancelled in Boston, and another massive amount of festival coverage gets posted to the Internet by me. I ventured to Chicago a few weekends ago for my third Pitchfork Music Festival, which once again …