Dan Deacon brought audience dance contests, a human tunnel, a synchronized smartphone app, a strobe-light skull and suites of joyous electropop to the Paradise on Tuesday for an absurdly entertaining show. Check out some photos inside.
Massachusetts metalcore heroes Converge brought their All We Love We Leave Behind tour to the Royale for a triumphant hometown show Monday night. Check out photos of all the raging, stage-diving madness within.
I rounded up a few orphaned photo sets tonight from recent Boston shows with The Mountain Goats (with Matthew E. White), Ben Folds Five and Grizzly Bear. Check those out after the jump.
A few weeks back I ventured out to the new location of mainstay Boston record store Looney Tunes and asked a few questions of owner Pat McGrath. Read on for some words of wisdom on the current state of the music business and the continuing …
The Walkmen returned to Boston last weekend in support of this year’s lovely new record Heaven. I wrote up a review for Allston Pudding which you can check out here. Photos by Marry Pivazian are with the post at AP and a few more photos …
I reviewed last week’s Divine Fits show (featuring Britt Daniel of Spoon and Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade) for Tastemakers Magazine. Check it out here. Some of my photos are with the article, the rest after the jump.
It’s become increasingly clear to me that between this blog, Allston Pudding, Tastemakers, social engagements and those classes I should probably be paying attention to, there isn’t enough time in my week to write a fully fleshed out review for every concert I attend. That …
The second coming of Michael Gira’s mighty Swans is on tour in support of this year’s gargantuan double album The Seer, bringing a pummeling and mild-altering two-and-a-half hour show to the Paradise on Thursday night. Gypsy-folk duo A Hawk and Hacksaw opened.
Legendary Canadian post-rock pioneers Godspeed You! Black Emperor are in the midst of their first full US tour in nearly a decade, which stopped over at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre last Monday night. Boston’s own Glenn Jones opened the show.
Buzz- and bass-heavy experimental electronic duo Purity Ring played a free outdoor show at the Northeastern University campus Saturday evening.