Electro-rock duo Ratatat talk animation, singing to wordless music, and their collaboration with rapper Despot before playing the House of Blues.
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QURAN DMC: BLAK MADEEN ON MUSLIMS, FIVE-PERCENTERS, HIP-HOP, AND MARCO RUBIO
While most facets of American society revolve around Christianity, as Yusuf and AL-J are quick to note, hip-hop circles around a different set of principles.
DEJA ENTENDU: WHY EMO NOSTALGIA SHOWS ARE MORE THAN JUST FUN
Emo Night may just be the happiest place on earth.
FITTER, HAPPIER, MORE PRODUCTIVE: RESOLUTIONS TO HELP YOU ROCK 2016
Print this out, grab a piece of tape, and stick it on the back of your door so you keep these in mind each day of 2016.
SO THIS IS THE NEW YEAR: WHEN AND WHERE TO SEE LIVE MUSIC ON NEW YEAR’S EVE
If there’s one thing we know, it’s how to ring in the new year in style. From punk rock to classical, the concert options for tonight are endless—and so is that stream of bubbly.
30 BEST LOCAL ALBUMS OF 2015
From Speedy Ortiz to Cousin Stizz, our city churned out some of the best albums of the year – so many that picking the standouts saw us biting our nails from nerves.
SANTA’S SLEIGH: YOUR ONE STOP SHOP FOR LAST-MINUTE MUSIC GIFTS
Consider this your holiday shopping checklist for the record aficionados and rising musicians. Best of all, everything’s in the three-digit price range or less.
ART HISTORY: LAUREN DENITZIO OF WORRIERS PAINTS SCENES ON AND OFF THE CANVAS
Lauren Denitzio of punk rock act Worriers talks fine art, gender binary pronouns, and working with Laura Jane Grace before playing The Middle East Upstairs.
GET UR FREAK ON: FREE MISSY ELLIOTT DANCE PARTY LETS YOU WORK IT ALL NIGHT
Leave it to DJ LeahV and the folks at Bowery Boston to bring the right #mood to Boston... for free.
FOTOBOM: MILEY CYRUS AND HER DEAD PETZ @ HOUSE OF BLUES, SUN 12/06
Miley Cyrus teams up with Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips for the Dead Petz tour where the bacchanal was on -- and it didn't let up over the next two hours.