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Photos by Boston Concert Photography Sometimes you get lucky and that one band from Iceland you’ve been digging just happens to be headlining a Taste of Iceland event in your city on your birthday. Sometimes you get even luckier and that band is Kaleo. A majority of the now
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POP QUIZ: What’s the name for the album that, each time you listen to it, you have a new favorite song? Normally, I would call it album of the year, but because it’s only February March, I’ll call it Andrew Combs’ All These Dreams. In the follow-up
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The practice of ranking the year’s albums is certainly one that I approach with some hesitation. Like Kyle, I was tempted to not even try to rank them. I mean, ask me what the best album of the year is and — depending on my mood and the day’s
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Photos by Boston Concert Photography Time ticks away pretty quickly in the Northeast at this time of year. Days are short and weeks fly by like minutes. One good thing about that — 10PM Friday night at Nick-A-Nees in Providence rolls before you know it. This past Friday, two bands fit
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Photos by Boston Concert Photography Sometimes there’s a movement in a music scene that you simply can’t ignore. Such is the case with Lil’ Dicky (A.K.A. David Burd / LD / Mr. Leftward Sloping Penis,) the white Jewish rapper from Philadelphia who is turning heads from Everytown, USA
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Photos by Boston Concert Photography There’s a certain air about some shows. An air that you can feel as the music begins (or even before) and that lets you know you were partisan to something pretty damn special. As part of a tour supporting Jonah Tolchin‘s (pretty fucking
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Photos by Boston Concert Photography Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to the latest incarnation of the house show movement here in Boston — SoFar Sounds: Boston. At what I believe is the latest addition to the 75-city Sofar Sounds network, you’ll come across some of the
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Photos by Boston Concert Photography Some rainy Saturday nights it just doesn’t pay to wander outside your door. You’re better off getting cozy and watching a bad movie in your living room. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that if
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Photos by Boston Concert Photography This past Saturday — January 25th, 2014 if you’re reading this at some point in the distant future — the world officially received one hell of an album. After a year of build up, The Curtis Mayflower finally let go of “Everything Beautiful is Under Attack”
Big Harp
[W]elp, it’s that time of the year again — time to try and stack rank the albums I’ve spent my life with over the past year. Weighing intangible against intangible and doing my best to pick which one comes out on top! In some ways, this annual ritual
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Photos by Boston Concert Photography Sometimes you go out on a Tuesday night and wish you’d stayed in. Then there are times you go out on a Tuesday and wonder why more people didn’t go out on Tuesday. The latter situation is the one I found myself in
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Photos by Boston Concert Photography This past Friday night at The Columbus Theatre in Providence, something pretty damn special took place. A collection of fans, musicians, and artisans of all kinds gathered in torrential conditions to come to the aid of one of their own: Dave Lamb of Brown Bird.