Japan’s most versatile drone/doom/experimental metal band spent two nights in Boston last weekend as a part of their From the Past, the Present and Through to the Future tour. I was distracted by a former Smith during Saturday’s “greatest hits” set, but I made it …
On what is almost certainly the year’s most fitting double-bill, surf-punks Wavves and FIDLAR played a sold-out Brighton Music Hall earlier this month to an appropriately energetic crowd.
Hello there. It’s been a while. As you’re probably aware, Boston has been a bit chaotic as of late. My personal life has gone ahead and followed suit. Things are calming down though, and at last I have time to get around to a month’s …
One year to the day after controversial rap group Odd Future played the House of Blues and were shut down mid-song by Boston police, ringleader Tyler, the Creator returned for a solo show in promotion of his new album, Wolf.
Veteran Canadian indie rocker Joel Plaskett performed a rapturously received acoustic set to a sold-out O’Brien’s on Wednesday night. World’s Quietest band and Cause a Rockslide opened.
Glaswegian noise-pop trio PAWS hit Great Scott on Monday night as a part of their first U.S. tour, leading up to South by Southwest. Read on for first impressions and photos, also featuring openers Idiot Genes.
I don’t write nearly enough album reviews, but Nick Cave’s stunning new record is one I feel rather strongly about. Read my thoughts on it at length over at the Tastemakers Magazine site.
A sold-out Brighton Music Hall welcomed a diverse collection of psychedelic revivalists for Saturday night’s show, wherein Unknown Mortal Orchestra brought along Foxygen and Wampire for the ride.
Sunny surf-pop crew Beach Fossils played T.T.’s last weekend on an inappropriately snowy evening, and I was there to capture some photos. Check out the first batch with a review by Helen Chen over at Allston Pudding, and the rest right here.
Passion Pit made a triumphant return to Boston last weekend for a post-blizzard show at Agganis Arena. I took photos and wrote a review for Allston Pudding that you can check out here. Head this way for a full gallery of photos.