HYRROKKIN – PRISTINE ORIGIN
There’s this kind of guitar playing that I don’t truly know the origins of, nor do I possess the knowing musicality with…
post-rock
SOCCER MOM – S/T
A muffled cavernous melody opens the first seconds of “It’s Probably Not Your Fault,” appearing from nothing and gradually revealing itself as…
ROYAL WEDDING – MYSTERIOUS POWERS
Boston-based time travellers ROYAL WEDDING have new material emanating from Roxbury collective studios ’Berwick Research Institute’. This collection of 5 tracks titled…
ULAN BATOR – EN FRANCE/ EN TRANSE
ULAN BATOR are one of the great rock-ist bands, perhaps the greatest rock-ist band, working out of France in this day and…
FOREST SWORDS – ENGRAVINGS
Engravings starts with what sounds like a row of eerily quivering pianos lining a darkened hallway. As one continues to inhabit the…
BILLY BAO – BUILDINGS FROM BILBAO
Just some of the most captivating, fucked up and stained rock music you could ever imagine hearing. I could say that maybe…
My 2013 inspiration heap by Neil Young Cloaca
Neil Young Cloaca is the drummer, and tape loops rep for FAT WORM OF ERROR, and that should be enough. And it…
STRANGE MANGERS, WARPED FOREST, NASHOBA, MEET GROVER @ O’BRIEN’S
The stark white snow that currently blankets Boston is an apt backdrop for this stormy slow burner local rock show TONIGHT at…
EL TEN ELEVEN + ELIOT LIPP @ THE SINCLAIR
Picture this in your head: one dude plays a crazy cool double-necked guitar-bass combo, effortlessly combing a melody and looping his own…
TRUE WIDOW – “S:H:S”
We don’t get into too much RELAPSE business in these parts for whatever reason, but when the music grabs your ears what…
REVENGE OF THE BIRDS: TRASHAWK, J/Q, HARRIS HAWK, BLOODPHEASANT, ALPHA OWL @CAMBRIDGE ELKS LOUNGE
Ever seen that Hitchcock suspense/horror film The Birds? Well this show is kinda like that, only louder and faster, with some punk…
TREAT YO SELF: STRANGE MANGERS, WE ARE OCEANS, SPARHAWKS, FUNERAL ADVANTAGE@ GREAT SCOTT
If you’re one of those 90’s kids who doesn’t understand why music seems to have moved beyond those melancholy days while you’re…
