The times, they are a changin’. That was true in 1964 and it still rings true today, but sometimes the pace can seem glacial… as long as the tangerine menace is occupying the Oval Office, the clock hands regarding the progress of basic human rights appear to have been dialed back a few centuries. […]
FOTOBOM: THE ROLLING STONES @ GILLETTE STADIUM
“If you want to live a long life, join the Rolling Stones.” Keith Richards said that seventeen years ago, and it’s still as true as ever. Just chew on this tidbit… the Stones have been touring America for twice as long as the members of the star-crossed 27 club were actually alive. They’ve been […]
SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL 2019 – WILCO, THE FEELIES, COURTNEY BARNETT, THE MINUS 5, CATE LE BON, TORTOISE, JONATHAN RICHMAN, MDOU MOCTAR, ETC
Before I start, can we just talk about Nels’ guitar solo in “Impossible Germany” for a minute? I think it changed something deep inside of me, on the molecular level. That Cline is a brilliantly fearless and inventive guitar player has been well established but his 300-odd seconds of six string frenzy set a […]
FOTOBOM: KIKAGAKU MOYO, SARAH LOUISE @ THE SINCLAIR
Psychedelic must be the most abused term used to describe a certain type of rock band, a moniker cavalierly tossed about to bands who match up worse than chocolate and cheese (hey, is Ween a psych band too?). But these cats from Japan? Ok, feel free to tag them as psychedelic. Long hair, beards, […]
FOTOBOM: JAWBOX @ THE SINCLAIR
“I was gonna say that we’re going to play an old song, but…” J Robbins quipped halfway during Friday night’s show. Vaunted DC quartet Jawbox decided to join the throngs who shake a couple decades worth of dust from their road cases and get back on the stage. Not counting a small hometown warm […]
FOTOBOM: FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
Coming through on the second leg of her High As Hope tour, after over 70 concerts Florence and her well-oiled machine show no signs of flagging, nor any disinterest in the material from that record. With good reason – there’s some cracking material on the ‘never in one spot for too long’ Welch, and […]
FOTOBOM: TASH SULTANA, PIERCE BROTHERS @ ROCKLAND TRUST BANK PAVILION
Mention the term ‘one person band’ and you might fill your head with images of some old German guy with an accordian and tuba strapped to his body, castanets stapled to his pant legs, all the while playing a battered acoustic guitar and occasionally chanting something. Well, banish that mental picture to the depths […]
FOTOBOM: BOSTON CALLING 2019
Humans love to use base ten as a function of assigning milestones- is it because we’ve got ten fingers? As such, the 10th anniversary of any particular event carries some additional weight, earned or not. And here we are at the tenth rendition of Boston Calling. Has it delivered on its promise? […]
FOTOBOM: BEIRUT @ HOUSE OF BLUES
If you entered the House of Blues in search of something surprising on a recent Tuesday night, you may well have left disappointed. The unexpected is not in store for you at the Beirut gig. But for the faithful who braved a snowy winter evening to pack the cavernous room on Lansdowne Street, the all-business […]
FOTOBOM: THE CHILLS @ THE MIDDLE EAST
The word ‘seminal’ gets tossed around a bit cavalierly these days, when any decent band with a pulse and a couple of dusty records are suddenly reissued on some boutique label, and are suddenly yanked out of obscurity and proclaimed the as long-lost Beatles or some such nonsense. Martin Phillipps is a rare case […]
