Reunited Chapel Hill indie rockers Archers of Loaf played the first of two nights at Cambridge’s Middle East Downstairs last Friday, with support from Merge label-mates Pipe and newcomers Hundred Visions.
Ben Gibbard and company made a stop at the Wang Theatre last Saturday in the course of their unique tour featuring the Magik*Magik Orchestra and support from slowcore pioneers Low.
So, this year’s annual Record Store Day has come and gone, and what have we learned? For one thing, record collectors (and reseller scumbags) are taking this event more and more seriously with each passing year. My store of choice was the original Newbury Street …
Also published today was my writeup on last week’s Horrors show at the Paradise with Small Black. Check that out here at the WRBB radio blog, and see the full set of photos after the jump.
Kurt Wagner’s long running alt-country collective Lambchop visited the Paradise last night in support of their new record Mr. M.
Northeastern brings something for the hipster crowd to Springfest 2012 with an afterHours show featuring shoegaze-leaning indie rockers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, with support from Bear Hands.
Yeah, you probably should. The semi-legendary Icelandic post-rock band announced a short US tour today in support of their remarkably pronounceable new album, Valtari. These shows mark the band’s first live appearances since their ‘indefinite hiatus’ in 2008. The itinerary includes stops in Philadelphia, New …
The Newport Folk Festival, aka my non-Pitchfork summer festival venture, announced today the addition of a Friday night show featuring Blitzen Trapper, Megafaun and the mighty Wilco. Wilco will be on the road for much of the summer in continued support of last year’s excellent …
Former Boston natives The Magnetic Fields returned Friday night for the first of two shows at Berklee in support of their latest studio effort Love at the Bottom of the Sea.
I am unreasonably excited about the new Spiritualized album Sweet Heart Sweet Light, and you should be too! Stream the whole record over at NPR right now, over a week before its April 17th official release date. Also, don’t forget that Jason Pierce and company …