Best of Boston Music: 30 Top Songs of 2016 Knar Bedian December 31, 2016 Featured, Local Spotlight 2016 may have been a rough year, but Boston's music community put out some truly fantastic material: strong female singers like Sadie Dupuis (of Speedy Ortiz) and Aubrey Haddard (of The New Review) released...
Sweat, Tears, and Harmonies: Grey Season’s Finale Knar Bedian April 7, 2016 Concert Reviews, Featured, Local Spotlight, Reviews Just hours before the show, Grey Season’s bassist, Ian Jones, had posted on the Facebook event page warning fans of the meager two dozen tickets that remained. Later that night, as Lady Pills churned...
Weekly Wrap-Up: 4/3/16 Araz Havan April 7, 2016 Columns, Featured, News, Weekly Wrap-Up Punxsutawney Phil is my number one enemy right now, because it’s not fair that a few days ago I was driving with my windows down, but today I’m bundled up in all the knitwear I didn’t put away yet....
9A Parting Gift Album Review: Grey Season – Out of the House into the Night Jenna Buckle April 5, 2016 Album Reviews, Featured, Reviews Grey Season is the kind of band that could play a tiny store in Harvard Square or the sprawling Boston Calling stage—and both would feel just right. Stripped down or electrified, the five-piece folk-rock...
Song Premiere: “Mixing My Medicine” – Grey Season Knar Bedian March 30, 2016 Featured, Local Spotlight, Premiere Even without Grey Season’s hiatus announcement, the distorted guitar and wailing despair of lead singer Jon Mills’ vocals on opening track make “Mixing My Medicine” feel like it drags its feet in a...
Sofar: Something Old, Something New Knar Bedian February 8, 2016 Concert Reviews, Featured, Local Spotlight, Reviews 1/20/16 - Sofar Hidden behind the unsuspecting facade of a South End apartment building lay a puzzling mix of log cabin: the location of Wednesday night’s Sofar show. Even the bathroom, with its mosaic...
Weekly Wrap-Up: 10/12/2015 Will Sullivan October 13, 2015 Columns, Featured, News, Weekly Wrap-Up 1 Comment Leaves are falling, evenings are finally cool and crisp, pumpkin-spice is omnipresent, and Boston is churning out music. Here's our summary of the week that was. Darlingside Featured on NPR’s World Cafe:...
Boston Calling September 2015: Friday & Saturday Jon Simmons September 28, 2015 Concert Reviews, Featured, Festivals, Reviews Oh, September Boston Calling: cans of Sam Adams OctoberFest, unpredictably sudden drops in temperature, nearly-naked college students shivering on concrete plaza steps. We missed you. With short-shorts...
Boston Calling Preview Interview: Grey Season Knar Bedian September 21, 2015 Featured, Interview, Local Spotlight "This is the first time we’ve all hung out together in a while,” admits Jon, lead singer of folky five-piece Grey Season. It had been over a year since we sat down for an official interview with the band,...
Selected Sounds: 7 Concerts to Bookend Your Summer Matt McCarthy August 25, 2015 Featured, Selected Sounds Although summer may be winding down in Boston, there are still plenty of can't-miss concerts all across the city. The Sound of Boston team has rounded up their picks for the most exciting upcoming shows in the...