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New Music and Video
Reviews of new music, video, concerts and music festivals.
How To Transform Street Performers into a Full-Fledged Rock Juggernaut
THE RELEVANT ELEPHANTS: How To Transform Street Performers into a Full-Fledged Rock Juggernaut ...
Aaron Dessner of The National Talks About Curating Boston Calling Music Festival
Aaron Dessner of The National on Curating Boston Calling With a Spirit of Collaboration Music...
Live Review: Toro y Moi
Leading the pack of buzzbands coming out of South by Southwest, Toro Y Moi has generated a buzz that won’t seem to dissipate. A critically-acclaimed leader of the chillwave movement, the band...
Live Review: Joy Formidable
My last interaction with Joy Formidable frontwoman Ritzy Bryan was last year when I met her shortly before her set at the Great Scott. She gave me a huge hug (I interviewed her for a preview for...
Studio Diary: Lauren Flaherty
I began 2011 snowed in with Imogen Heap. Well, not really. It’s more accurate to say I started the year hiding from the back-to-back snowstorms clobbering...
Live Review: Richard Ashcroft
March 24, 2011 // Villa Victoria Center When I first got wind that Richard Ashcroft was coming here, my "Sonnet" lyric tattoo from The Verve's mega-successful album Urban Hymns practically raised up...
Live Review: Tres Mts. With Gull
Tres Mts. a Pearl Jam side project of bassist Jeff Ament, Doug Pinnick of King's X, and also featuring Mike McCready (who joined them on their short six show tour.) The Paradise Rock club was lucky...
Live Review: Shaun Wolf Wortis’ Mardi Gras Ball
March 5, 2011 at TT The Bear’s Place; Cambridge, Ma. The 18th edition of Wolf’s annual Mardi Gras benefit show, with proceeds going towards support of the New Orleans Musicians Clinic, kicked off...
Live Review: Glassjaw with Tidal Arms and These People
Long Island New York's Glassjaw performed a sold out tremendous set at the Paradise Rock Club last Friday. There were many eager fans waiting to hear and see them. They played material...
Record Review: Zoey Van Goey
Zoey Van Goey Propeller Versus Wings Glasgow, Scotland “Don’t mess with robot dinosaurs” With a band name like Zoey Van Goey, it makes sense that this Scottish indie pop quartet has been described...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: Young Antiques
Young Antiques Fucked Up In Public Atlanta, GA “In the Dirty South, punk snot dead” Arriving on a 7-inch slab of swirly, colored vinyl with a mock-Ramones logo adorning the label, one would be quick...
Record Review: WH Walker
W.H. Walker Suds! Portland, OR “Doo-wop pop meets garage punk fun” What happens when a band fuses 1950s doo-wop pop with garage-punk and a contagious beat? Nostalgia for those laid-back summer days...