Early on in their set, between songs Peter Garrett started talking about a recent NYT piece on the hazardous conditions that will arise from Salt Lake’s evaporation before stopping himself and saying ...
FOTOBOM: MIDNIGHT OIL @ ROADRUNNER
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Fotobom: Tove Lo At Roadrunner In Boston
With Noga Erez on June 13
FOTOBOM: PAUL MCCARTNEY @ FENWAY PARK
“When we play a Beatles song, everyone has their phones out and it looks like a galaxy. When we do a new song, it’s like a black hole. But we don’t care! We’re gonna do them anyway.” Of course people across all generational lines were most eager to hear the Beatles ...
FOTOBOM: DEHD + 81355 @ BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL
Most bands time their tours to start after the new record hits the stores but for whatever reason Chicago trio Dehd was pretty much wrapping up theirs when Blue Skies dropped, with only the last Chicago date after Boston’s to let fans get familiar with it. (Don’t fret ...
FOTOBOM: WILCO’S SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL
For the seventh time since 2010, Wilco moved their headquarters temporarily from Chicago to North Adams, MA and kicked off another edition of Solid Sound. As Tweedy sings in “Outtasite (Outta Mind),” here they come again and they’re ...
FOTOBOM: THE WHO + AMETHYST KIAH
FOTOBOM: DRY CLEANING + FAKE FRUIT
“I was there, man.” People who saw the Quarrymen at the Cavern Club, Pink Floyd at UFO Club, Nirvana at Green Street Station and now fans who had a ticket for the debut show of Dry Cleaning at Crystal Ballroom can all make the same claim. Post-punk is definitely having ...
FOTOBOM: INTERPOL + TYCHO @ ROADRUNNER
Interpol have a new record that’s in the late stages of cooking and they hit the road to test out some of the material at Roadrunner. It’s about what you’d expect; dark, brooding songs with a minimal post-punk engine driving them forward, the band well-camouflaged in their black ...
FOTOBOM: DESTROYER + ROSALI @ THE SINCLAIR
Looking like a shambolically elegant version of Donald Sutherland’s character from Animal House with permanent creases and perpetual bedhead, Dan Bejar does strike a certain look on stage. One ...
FOTOBOM: CAT POWER @ THE PARADISE
The tradition of taking someone else’s work and putting your own spin on it is a storied one and history is littered with examples of rote duplication and insanely creative re-inventions. And of course there is a wide spectrum between those two poles. Chan Marshall (nom du mic as Cat ...
