Selected Sounds: Boston Calling Fall 2015 Edition Matt McCarthy September 21, 2015It’s pretty hard to believe that Boston Calling is now closing out its third year in the city. Since Spring...
Album Review: Tomboy – Sweetie Noah Habeeb June 22, 2015Tomboys are all about duality. Girls, but with the supposed characteristics of boys. It’s fitting then that Boston-based Tomboy embraces...
Selected Sounds: 5 Upcoming Concerts to Keep Your Eye On Matt McCarthy June 10, 2015With the Spring edition of Boston Calling 2015 in the rear view, the summer concert season is rapidly approaching! From...
Converse Rubber Tracks: Slayer, Doomriders and Rozamov Matt McCarthy May 12, 2015After 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: The Replacements & Dinosaur Jr. Matt McCarthy May 4, 2015The Young Leaves Christopher Chaisson had the night off from grad school. The reason: His professor is a huge Replacements...
Rockin’ Record Release: Rebuilder Matt McCarthy April 14, 2015Glittering, platinum banners reading “Rock ’n’ roll” sagged toward the back corner of the stage at O’Brien’s Pub. Soggy concertgoers...
Feedback Maniac: Benjamin Booker Jon Simmons April 8, 2015ips pressed against the microphone, garage-punk/soul musician Benjamin Booker delivered mostly unintelligible lyrics to a sold-out Sinclair crowd. On top of gritty, overdriven guitar,...
Too Cool to Care: Iceage Noah Habeeb October 30, 2014rom a red beat-up van with New York plates, four Danish punks emerged. Six time zones removed from Copenhagen, they...
Listen Local: 5 Massachusetts Bands on Exploding in Sound Records Noah Habeeb August 6, 2014The radio may claim that guitar rock is dead, but that doesn’t mean the guitar is going down without a...
Sweaty Stage Dives: A Wilhelm Scream Matt McCarthy July 30, 2014A giant crocodile head mounted over the men’s room gazes unblinking at the sweaty bodies soaring off the stage. An...