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Certain music genres have a hard ceiling on the amount of popularity one can achieve, and currently Turnstile is pushing those boundaries of what hardcore means in today’s world. The vast majority of bands operating in that loose pigeonhole might be playing O’Brien’s or basement ...
Radiohead is in a fairly unique position among rock bands in the current age. Right about the time that Thom Yorke decided he’d had enough of leading an alt.rock guitar band, they have been making fearless choices that have paid off handsomely. I’m sure there are tiny pockets of ...
For a band that mixes detached Gallian cool, anarcho-politics and a deeply abiding love for the hypnotic and eternal groove of early ’70s German electronic music, Stereolab sure has staying power. Perhaps some of it has to do with their meticulous attention to their back catalog, and ...
As the last standing OG member of The Shins, James Mercer threw a birthday bash for Oh, Inverted World as it passed the threshold for legal imbibement. (Yes, that’s a word. I looked it up. I promise never to use it again.) It’s hard to believe that it’s twenty-one years ...
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 ...
With Noga Erez on June 13
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 ...
Lucius made their mark on the music world when 2013 saw the release of Wildewoman, a brash, self-assertive splash into the indie world whose cover art made people question whether Freud was misquoted. Did he say cigar or ice cream cone? Anyways, when they aren’t busy singing ...
“We’re standing on the side watching them do this thinking we’re completely insane for asking Sheryl Crow and Brandi Carlile to sing that part”
Ascendent indie-folk-rock quartet Big Thief headline their biggest Boston show yet at a sold-out Roadrunner
