After ignoring Boston for close to a decade while NYC shows were not so unusual, Providence native son via SF > LA John Dwyer has brought his ferocious, multi-headed garage/psych/neo-jam outfit to town on a fairly routine schedule these last few years. After closing shop for a brief time when Dwyer moved from […]
IAN KARMEL: FOR ‘LATE LATE SHOW’ HEAD WRITER, COMEDY LIFE IS A FANTASY COME TRUE
“I really loved doing fantasy drafts … you can really draft anything, you can draft kinds of liquor you like to drink, or episodes of Seinfield.”
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 […]
THIS IS REALLY A LOVE STORY
Every line I enter into my computer about the Hub is also part of a love story, because like a parent in the 1950s (or today, I guess) attempting to rationalize smacking their kids, I truly love the objects of my animosity. Oftentimes, it hurts me more than it hurts Boston to level such relentless criticism.
WHEEL OF TUNES: CLOUD NOTHINGS
The Ohio punks talk hiking Taipei, episodes of Arthur, and embarrassing drunken blackouts.
FOTOBOM: GUIDED BY VOICES, PARK DOING @ THE SINCLAIR
Fifty three songs. 53! For any bands outside the patchouli-hazed jam world, it would take years if not decades to play that many different songs live, given the rigid set lists of most touring bands. Guided By Voices has no such issue. Granted, leader Robert Pollard has been cranking out full-length records at a […]
SWIRLIES: NEARLY 30 YEARS OF LESSONS WORTH SHARING
The influential shoegaze band looks back on their career and shares advice for the next generation of musicians.
WHEEL OF TUNES: FOXING
The indie rock emo kids talk Star Trek, Ned Flanders, and the best way to measure intelligence.
WHEEL OF TUNES: THIN LIPS
The Philly pop punkers talk oujia boards, lavender weed, and being weirded out by vaginas when they were growing up.
