Strange as it may have seemed once, former indie rock darlings Arcade Fire have settled comfortably into the role of festival and arena headliners. Their shows behind 2013’s ambitious, danceable odyssey Reflektor proved what “Wake Up” had always suggested: that the band’s anthemic sound could fill huge spaces without losing its heart. Four years later, […]
FOTOBOM: ROGER WATERS @ TD GARDEN, 27SEP17
Roger Waters plays “Pigs” as a tribute to Trump and butthurt snowflakes scatter for the exits.
SOMETHING POSITIVE (FOR CHANGE)
I have been wanting to share thoughts along these lines for weeks now, but it’s never the right time. Either white supremacists are rumored to be coming into Boston, or President Not-See himself says something insanely hurtful or ignorant. Or both.
FOTOBOM: QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT @ TD GARDEN
No one ever said that playing rock music was rocket science, but Brian May has proven that the two aren’t necessarily diametrically opposed. (For those intrepid-minded readers, feel free to dig into his thesis entitled A Survey Of Radial Velocities In The Zodiacal Dust Cloud.) The good news is that he’s not gone all […]
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, TROMBONE SHORTY @ TD GARDEN, 07FEB17
Some bands still have the draw. Whether or not many people have bought copies of their last few records, Red Hot Chili Peppers still managed to bang out the TD Garden on back-to-back nights, a feat that’s pretty impressive in 2017. Speaking of new records, this tour was in support of their newly released The […]
FOTOBOM: THE WHO, TAL WILKENFELD @ TD GARDEN, 3/6
The passion and fury that catapulted The Who to controversy and stardom still burned fiercely within Daltrey and Townshend as the band celebrated 50 years at TD Garden.
DIG THIS: SIP & LEARN, PULP FRICTION, AND BOBBY LONG
Drink, dance, and dance some more. The snow doesn’t stand a chance.
REVIEW: U2 @ TD GARDEN, FRI 7/10
We breakdown U2’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour piece by piece.
CRAFT BEER BARS: DO THEY REALLY EVEN EXIST ANYMORE?
What it comes down to is that in spite of what Budweiser’s advertising department would like you to think, today’s drinkers demand craft beer. Period.
HERE, SPOT: PARKING SUCKS. THIS COULD HELP.
If this week’s snowpocalypse spotlights one thing in particular, it’s the long-standing and well-known horror show befalling any poor Boston sot with a car, and nary a place to park it when push comes to shove.
