I play competitive air guitar. What else do you need to know?
current swell
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiOTGhPul8g[/youtube] As the token Canadian on staff here, it is incumbent upon me to tell you about Canadian bands when they come across my desk. As the even-more-token British Columbian, even more so for bands from my home province. So I am
hundred visions
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHegiZADbGE[/youtube] Do you like breakfast food? Of course you do; you’re not a monster. How much do you like it? I mean, do you like bacon enough to wish you could chop out rails of it and take a hit of
PANTHAR
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Nv8aEjMvE[/youtube] Before we go any further, allow me to point out the most important thing you’re going to learn today: PANTHAR is named after a taxidermied bobcat. I can’t decide whether I love more that this is how they named
NEEDS
You’re probably thinking “We have literally 6 feet of snow outside and you want me to listen to a band from Canada??” But hold your horses. NEEDS are from Vancouver, my hometown, and I can tell you that we don’t actually all have pet polar bears there or
the nuclears
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BId86m-TCj4[/youtube] Did you, like me, spend an hour and a half shoveling hip-high snow this morning? And that was just round one? Then what you need is this video (and perhaps also hot chocolate with booze in it). It’s literally the
Ex Hex
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSXZe1C6kw8[/youtube] I am not alone, at this fine publication, in liking Ex Hex a lot. Myself, I first encountered them when they opened for Rocket from the Crypt on their reunion tour last summer. One of the things that instantly endears a
swanky tiger
How’s your Wednesday going? Kind of dull and chilly? This will help. NYC’s Swanky Tiger has a dirty glam sound that is anything but dull, and singer/guitarist Oliver Myles Mashburn’s sneering delivery is also the opposite of chilly. Seriously, there is something about that little trail-off
divers
Portland, Oregon. A town with its own tv show. A town I nearly lived in. A town that I have a very brief and specific feud against this particular year (US Air Guitar National Championships needs to be in Boston this year!). Don’t hold that feud against it, though,
Top Albums of 2014
All right. Time for my year-end list. However, since I only got on board this music blogging train in October, I’m at a bit of a disadvantage. Until then, I didn’t really have to care whether a given album came out within a given calendar year – I have
Psychic Dog
photo: Matt LeBel Saturday night was a veritable explosion of local bands at the Middle East Downstairs for the big Robby Roadsteamer comeback show, and I’m going to tell you about one of them. Psychic Dog is a Boston rock and roll machine that is powered by beer and
The Daley Grimes
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibqK03pSe5A[/youtube] Christmas is coming. For some people, that’s a more fraught, and perhaps literal, statement than for others. Boston’s acoustic comedy duo, The Daley Grimes, want you to know that if Santa gives you the “no” feeling, you’re not
my drunken haze
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7JjVNW1jHE[/youtube] Happy Monday! Did you go to a weird party this weekend? And if not, why not? Either way, I bet it wasn’t half as weird as the party in this video. All the way from Greece, My Drunken Haze gives