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FEEDBACK: ROYAL WEDDING WITH GEOGLYPHS AND INCREDIBLE UNIVERSE

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Friends playing with friends for a crowd made up largely of….well, their friends. Continue reading

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REPORTING LIVE: ART BRUT

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The English-German band Art Brut did a live performance at Brighton Music Hall on Monday. Here, for what it is worth, is what I have to say about it. Continue reading

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REPORTING LIVE: THE DODOS

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The Dodos show with Gauntlet Hair at The Paradise on Tuesday looked a little more like babysitting for the Dodos guys. While Dodos frontman Meric Long was playing so hard that his guitar string broke early on in their set, the boys from Gauntlet Hair (I don’t even know what’s up with the name), an experimental pop rock outfit from Denver, were horsing around in the crowd, trying to start a mosh pit. Continue reading

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REPORTING LIVE: ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI

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I felt like I was on a moon bounce, the amount of hopping around that was going on in the crowd. The only excuse you could for not dancing would be if you were paralyzed from the waist down. Continue reading

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REPORTING LIVE: YEASAYER AT ROYALE

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How does one accurately describe Yeasayer? Yeasayer is probably what 80s new wave should have evolved into if the 80′s didn’t trip over a synthesizer and fall into the 90s. They’re probably what an acid trip in the Mojave feels like. Or rave in the middle of the Amazon. Continue reading

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REPORTING LIVE: LADY LAMB THE BEEKEEPER AND HAPPIEST LION

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Happiest Lion? It seems more like Caleb Groh has the soul of a sweet old basset hound howling with the summer wind. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper gave me goosebumps. I honestly wondered why both artists weren’t playing a larger venue. Continue reading

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DOOMRIDERS, RAMMING SPEED AT GREAT SCOTT

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Crust punks, stoner rockers, and thrashers united on the grim night before Valentine’s Day to kick out the jams with local metal favorites Doomriders and Ramming Speed along with sets from Sweet Cobra and Lunglust. Continue reading

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LIVE: KYLESA AT GREAT SCOTT

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Last Tuesday at Great Scott, Kylesa gave the crowd what they had been waiting for since the news came out that the Savannah, Georgian psychedelic mammoths were going to be ploughing (literally) their way through the east coast in support of their latest release: Spiral Shadow. Continue reading

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DARWIN DEEZ AT GREAT SCOTT

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I got the chance to mosey on down to see the infamous Darwin Deez, and was quite relieved to find out that his dance moves are sooooo much better in person. Continue reading

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LIVE FROM NEW YORK IT’S … ENDLESS WAVE

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Boston’s Endless Wave play a show and talk to DigBoston on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The first in an ongoing series about Boston bands playing in the Big Apple. Continue reading