Concert Gallery: Clairo Knar Bedian March 6, 2022With her Red Sox cap and a stage decorated like a cozy living room—complete with dimly lit paper lamps, Persian...
Mercury Retrograde: James Blake Julia Bernicker October 14, 2021Keyboard wizard and spectral singer-songwriter, James Blake, transported the Wang Theatre audience into his own futuristic dimension on the almost-eve...
Glass Animals: Next Stop, Nostalgia Knar Bedian October 5, 2021Glass Animals invite the crowd to dive headfirst into a tropical pool of indie-pop nostalgia. “Did you know I was...
Tight Tunes, Tighter Jeans: Yacht Rock Revue Tristan Geary August 23, 2021About half of the audience received the memo to don a sailor’s cap to the Leader Bank Pavilion on August...
I Turn the Music Up: Ceskie Rijks Alexis den Boggende April 2, 2020Dusk fell as the night howled with unabashed Bostonian winter winds; the W was brimming with music enthusiasts with rosés...
Smiles from Norway: Anna of the North Jared Steinberg March 17, 2020Scandinavian songstress and whimsical pop dreamweaver, Anna of the North, was in a state of blissful perma bounce when she...
A Master Class in Pop Performance: Kim Petras Sarah Wrean January 6, 2020Kim Petras, German-born rising queen of pop, delivered a master class in perfectly executed 2019 pop music and showed her...
The Return: Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star Jared Steinberg January 3, 2020Two of Brooklyn’s finest emcees, Mos Def (now Yasiin Bey) and Talib Kweli reunited as the prolific Black Star, backed...
Closer to You: Clairo N. Malte Collins December 12, 2019Clairo acknowledged her viral rise to fame without basking in it, putting on an intimate show that seemed more conversation...
Happy Panic Attack: AJR Ryan Bowman December 2, 2019While other bands create a show aimed at making the crowd forget about their problems, AJR breaks away from that...