Shovels & Rope
[I] was lucky enough to be exposed to Shovels & Rope’s original record years ago, when Michael and Cary Ann had first recorded it, a record I quickly fell in love with, and just couldn’t grasp why a million people weren’t listening to it. I’m so
J-Roddy Walston & the Business
Photos by Boston Concert Photography [M]onday night, we were lucky enough to have Baltimore’s finest purveyor’s of rock and fucking roll into one of the tiniest of venues in all of Boston, Great Scott. The sold out show on what would normally be a quiet Monday night
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Photos by Boston Concert Photography [O]n a cold evening in fall in Boston, as the lights from the Fenway Park lit up for the World Series, the real show was going on on the other side of the city as an evening with Fiona Apple & Blake Mills warmed
Jamestown Revival
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VidjX0j04og[/youtube] [D]oes the world need another song about California? Probably not, but make room for another one, and one that sounds like it might just capture some hearts and ears. With a Lumineers’ rambling, plodding folk sound, Jamestown Revival has a
Peggy Sue
[P]eggy Sue’s follow up to their acclaimed 2011 effort, Acrobats, titled Choir of Echoes, to be released by Wichita Recordings and Yep Roc Records at the start of 2014. The first single, is the moody, “Idle,” a slow burning song bookended by prayer-like moments that give off a
The Bynars
[I]t seems as though our local pals, the Bynars have been doing some growing up, and their music is really exploring further and further the soundscapes of experimental synth. Their new track is really grabbing me, with its subtle ambient sounds, emotive lyrics and a major sense of loneliness.
we are scientists
[T]he opening riff to this song reminds me totally of Wolfmother’s “the Joker & The Thief,” but what we have here is a blistering tune from We Are Scientists off of their upcoming Business Casual EP, out 10/14. The guitars are huge, the song flies at an
joseph arthur
[S]omething about this tune is making me think a lot on the times that I was really into Centro-matic, their songs captured this open spirit, slow pace that was incredibly perfect for my mental state at the time, and I find it works out really well for slow grey
Cass McCombs
[C]ass McCombs always delivers something truly evocative, and this lo-fi, bedroom tune definitely fits the mold. On his upcoming record Big Wheel and Others, is this stunning track that features the late actress / screenwriter / musician Karen Black, who collaborated with McCombs on “Brighter!,” a track that truly mesmerizes, with
Dead Gaze
[S]tay, Don’t Say, is the newest single from Cole Furlow’s Dead Gaze project, off of upcoming record, Brain Holiday. The single walks the line between shoe-gaze and acoustic balladry, it’s textured, and vast, with sweeping melodies and even with this scale is beautifully “turned-down,” which gives
Blessed Feathers
[W]isconsin based Blessed Feathers have released a new track titled “Real Song For Emily,” the first single on the band’s forthcoming album Order Of The Arrow, their first studio-recorded LP, which was produced by Kevin McMahon (The Walkmen, Real Estate, Titus Andronicus). “Real song…” starts off feeling like
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Photos by Caroline Moore [H]owever absurd you may expect GWAR to be on stage, they easily exceed those expectations. The show begins with a man in a loincloth, squeezing a plastic carcass and spraying the crowd with fake blood. Later, he tears the head from another man onstage, which
