Local Spotlight: Dang Clēts Jenna Buckle July 19, 2017 Featured, Local Spotlight, Local Spotlight Feature You know the kind of friendship where you love all of the same stuff, do everything together, and can’t help but finish each other’s sentences? That’s Dang Clēts (pronounced “dang...
Boston Calling May 2017: Sunday Jenna Buckle May 31, 2017 Concert Reviews, Featured, Festivals, Reviews Sunday at Boston Calling definitely drew a different type of crowd, with the lineup featuring several punk/hardcore acts and culminating in the return of headliner Tool. (There was someone wearing a Tool shirt...
Boston Calling May 2017: Saturday Jenna Buckle May 31, 2017 Concert Reviews, Featured, Festivals, Reviews The remnants of Friday’s rain showers left concertgoers still sinking in mud on Saturday, but at least the sun came out for some true festival weather. The grounds were just as packed and the food lines just...
8.5 Time Capsule: Temples Jenna Buckle November 3, 2016 Concert Reviews, Featured, Reviews 10/29/16 – Brighton Music Hall Curls stuck to his face, Temples frontman James Bagshaw took a moment mid-set to fuss about his “face glue”—a layer of ghostly white makeup that shouted ‘70s glam...
Video Premiere: “Goodbye Parties” by The New Review Jenna Buckle May 16, 2016 Featured, Local Spotlight, Premiere 2 Comments To any Allston/Boston local, the setting of The New Review’s new music video will be more than familiar. All seven members of the jazz funk band are set up in a cozy apartment, with shots switching between a...
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...
Premiere: “Plastic Waves EP” – Plastic Waves Jenna Buckle February 16, 2016 Featured, Local Spotlight, Premiere Sometimes you’ve got to go solo to let your true colors fly. The psychedelic brainchild of Boston musician Andre Bellido, Plastic Waves began as Bellido’s first attempt at making music on his own....
Boston Calling Reveals September 2015 Lineup Jenna Buckle May 25, 2015 Events, Featured, Festivals As if we didn't get enough of Boston Calling last weekend, the festival just announced the lineup for September 2015! Taking place on September 25, 26, and 27, the festival will be headlined by The Avett...
8.2 Flying Colors: Caribou Jenna Buckle November 17, 2014 Concert Reviews, Featured, Reviews 11/11/14 – Paradise Rock Club Based on the outfits of the band on stage, you’d think you were at the starting line of a color run 5K. White t-shirts, white button-downs, white pants—the guys of...
8.4Good Fun (Almost) All Grown Up: The Kooks Jenna Buckle July 30, 2014 Concert Reviews, Featured, Reviews 7/26/14 – Paradise Rock Club There’s a certain innocence to Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard – a glimmer in his eye, a youthful spring in his step – that hasn’t faded after all these years. As he...