Exactly three years to the day, Steve Gunn and Lee Ranaldo return to Boston for a shared bill. The biggest difference is that they left their fellow bandmates back home and took the stage armed just with an acoustic guitar. ...
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Written by TIM BUGBEE Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC, Reviews
Exactly three years to the day, Steve Gunn and Lee Ranaldo return to Boston for a shared bill. The biggest difference is that they left their fellow bandmates back home and took the stage armed just with an acoustic guitar. ... read more
Written by TIM BUGBEE Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC, Reviews
It’s rare for a side project to vault to the top of the priority list, but in Ultimate Painting’s case, it’s hard to argue against it. As far as emphasis on priority, it’s not entirely true; co-leader Jack Cooper continues to release work with Mazes, but Veronica Falls has ... read more
Written by TIM BUGBEE Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC
West Coast-based Fitz and the Tantrums struck up a giant dance party on Tuesday night, and the jammed floor was ready for it. The tandem of singers Michael Fitzpatrick and Noelle Scaggs were endlessly roaming the stage, ... read more
Written by TIM BUGBEE Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have made a nice career for themselves by sliding from the reverb-soaked Jesus & Mary Chain territory to more of a roots-oriented approach, but not so much that they’d be snarkily referred ... read more
Written by TIM BUGBEE Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC, Reviews
After a two year period of woodshedding, Warpaint emerged with their third full length record, and as bands do even the shambles of the music industry falling in all around them, they hit the road in support of Heads Up. Slowly but surely, they’ve inched away from the sparse, ... read more
Written by TIM BUGBEE Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC
There is more than one way to remove the epidermis from a feline, and tonight, two bands from Texas and Stockholm showed the many varied gradations of how to go from point A to point B in the metal world. Opeth is touring the states in support of the just-released Sorceress, ... read more
Written by TIM BUGBEE Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC, Reviews
Written by TIM BUGBEE Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC, Performing Arts, Reviews
Has anyone ever looked as suave and debonair as Bryan Ferry, the man who practically invented the insouciant half-unraveled tuxedo bowtie look and turned it into a template for coolness? It certainly helped that he inherited some amazing DNA from what we can assume is the deep end of the gene ... read more
Written by TIM BUGBEE Filed Under: Fotobom, MUSIC, Reviews
Day Two at Newport Folk Fest Is Hotter Than a Smoke Show and Kris Kristofferson is Everywhere
Written by NINA CORCORAN Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene
Pop is fun, but it’s a hell of a lot more so when things get weird.