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Cries of guitar bands going the way of the pterodactyls may be a bit premature as long as Australian groups like Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are flitting about. Steeped in the rich tradition of six string slingers like Belle & Sebastian or Teenage Fanclub, they also have taken studious ...
An amazing show plus the kind of crowd every artist could only ever dream of playing to
“It’s gonna be hard to top that one.”
I’d say a lot of people utter that phrase as they leave the dry and dusty grounds of Fort Adams after three days, trudging towards a shuttle bus or water taxi or bike or maybe tacking on more steps for the day as they walk toward ...
Halestorm w/ Lilith Czar, The Warning & The Pretty Reckless
Before any of the music started, there was a public service announcement on the giant display screens that spanned the center of the TD Garden floor, to the effect that if one likes the music of Pink Floyd but dislikes the politics of Roger Waters, they can fuck off to the bar right now*. ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Maybe purists will correct you when you claim that Tommy was the first rock opera and they start spewing about SF Sorrow instead but let’s not quibble about such trivia. And you know what ...
“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 ...
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 ...
