Ticket Giveaway (3/3): GIIA Maddy Ball March 7, 2017 Featured, Giveaway, Uncategorized Boston-born, opera-turned-electronic-pop sensation GIIA is coming to the Red Room in Boston THIS Saturday, 3/11 at 8:00 PM. Though GIIA has been singing since childhood, she didn't have to go far to...
Making Pop Fun Again: Tancred Kevin Dwyer February 27, 2017 Concert Reviews, Featured, Uncategorized Tancred brought enthusiastic power pop to a rapt audience at the Middle East. 2/15/17 - Middle East Upstairs Tancred’s Jess Abbott lived out a fantasy last Wednesday at the Middle East Upstairs: finally...
Interview: DREAMERS Maddy Ball February 16, 2017 Featured, Interview, Uncategorized LA-based rock-alt band DREAMERS recently released their much-anticipated debut LP, This Album Does Not Exist. Ethereal and upbeat it incorporates "themes of existence and existentialism, but it’s easy...
Song Premiere: “My Little Fight” – Joe Holt Joseph Leone December 20, 2016 Featured, Local Spotlight, Premiere, Uncategorized Creativity often emerges unexpectedly from mistakes and disappointments. “My Little Fight,” the latest single from English folk singer-songwriter and Berklee College of Music alum, Joe Holt, is the...
Selected Sounds: 6 Shows to Cram Into Your Holiday Schedule Matt McCarthy December 2, 2016 Featured, Selected Sounds, Uncategorized 1 Comment Whether it's final exams or simply finishing your holiday shopping list, your calendar is likely packed for the upcoming month. December is one of the busiest months of the year, which also means bands and...
Premiere: A Wide Escape by General Crush Mikey Enwright August 3, 2016 Featured, Local Spotlight, Premiere, Uncategorized “I like the multiple meanings in the word ‘crush.’ A word that can both represent both infatuation and destruction is pretty interesting” says local singer-songwriter Ray Ward about the inspiration for...
9Righteous Comeback Kids: Wolfmother Matt Johnson April 22, 2016 Concert Reviews, Uncategorized 2/29/16 - The Paradise As a photographer, arriving to the Paradise in the middle of the opening act is not a good feeling. The trick to the Paradise is to get there early, with an empty bladder (If you...
Weekly Wrap-Up: 3/27/16 Will Sullivan March 28, 2016 Columns, Featured, Uncategorized, Weekly Wrap-Up We now enter the last week of March, which means April is right around the corner. And with April comes Opening Day, Fenway Park, and the beginning of the baseball season. The crack of the bat, the roar of the...
Interview: The Griswolds Tim Briggs December 3, 2015 Featured, Interview, Uncategorized Be Impressive, The Griswolds’ debut album was released in 2014. Since then, they’ve been touring all around the world and working on their next record. I spent some time interviewing Tim John and Lachlan...
9Thrash Metal Throwback Converse Rubber Tracks: Slayer, Doomriders and Rozamov Matt McCarthy May 12, 2015 Concert Reviews, Featured, Reviews, Uncategorized 4/29/15 – The Sinclair After seeing the Sinclair’s stage littered with cigarette butts and splintered pieces of a smashed guitar, it didn’t seem like the Converse Rubber Tracks concert series could...