A Damn Good Night: Western Den, Damn Tall Buildings, and Nemes Adam Kaminski February 13, 2015The Red Room @ Cafe 939 is no place for spectacle. It is a place of intimacy and easygoing virtuosity;...
Stampeding: Elephant Wrecking Ball Adam Kaminski December 14, 2014The club was pool-tabled, low-ceiling, and people-scented, all in ways that validated the authenticity of its roughness. Welcome to Church,...
Engineering Beauty: Nils Frahm Adam Kaminski December 1, 2014On the questionably grubby floor of Brighton Music Hall stood music-induced meditators; atop the illuminated stage stood the maestro, transfixing...
Local Spotlight: Otter Adam Kaminski November 14, 2014General George Washing Machine, Urethra Franklin, Stone Cold Jane Austen… Believe it or not, these band names were once semi-serious...
Album Premiere: “I Carry Your Heart” by Nemes Adam Kaminski October 25, 2014lthough Nemes (pronounced knee-miss) denies any affiliation with internet memes, the Boston based band has steadily gained popularity via internet...
Local Spotlight: Ryan Aderréy Adam Kaminski August 26, 2014 I met with Ryan Aderréy in the shadow of the Prudential Center, in his basement apartment a few blocks...
Ross Livermore Band: on the Rise, Slowly but Surely Adam Kaminski June 30, 2014Immediately after I arrived at The Sinclair I thought I had made some mistake. A few parties were there to...
New England, Old Sound Adam Kaminski June 24, 2014Last week I had the opportunity to speak with “power-melodic-orchestrated-song-oriented rock” group New England. Popular in the late ‘70s and...
Looping Violins and Loopy Smiles: Kishi Bashi Adam Kaminski June 10, 2014As opener Buried Beds finished their tastefully melodic and fun(ny) set, co-frontman Brendan Beaver gave headliner Kishi Bashi a deserved...
A New Scene: Yann Tiersen Adam Kaminski June 4, 2014Yann Tiersen fanatics buzzed as a single techie tested and retested, tuned and retuned, the plethora of instruments on stage....