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Pop punk forefathers New Found Glory brought their Catalyst Anniversary Tour through Boston's own Roadrunner on Friday, August 23. The band celebrated 20 years of their hit album 'Catalyst' with a full album tour. They hit the road with Chicago based band Sincere Engineer. The night
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"Summer has come and passed, 20 years has gone so fast..." this lyric from 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' reigns true in new form as Green Day celebrates the 20th anniversary of American Idiot. This comes in tandem with the 30th anniversary of Dookie– The
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Not much can top an evening with Aaron Lee Tasjan. Except maybe an evening with ALT, Jessye DeSilva, Rich Hinman and Molly Martin. On a chilly “spring” night at the Middle East Upstairs, Tasjan rolled into town touring behind his fresh-off-the-press release Stellar Evolution, which is (obviously) stellar in every
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If there were any doubt about the amazing talents of Madi Diaz, they were most certainly laid to rest Thursday evening at The Sinclair. Touring behind her sixth full-length release Weird Faith, Diaz and long-time collaborator Adam Popick wove through a set comprised of fan-favorites and new releases—barely a
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Andrew Bird played to a captivated crowd at MGM Music Hall Fenway in Boston on Thursday April 13. This was the final stop on this leg of the Inside Problem’s Tour. The show began with Ted Poor, drummer for Andrew Bird’s band, performing a solo drum set. This
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Ron Gallo kicked off their tour with a blast of a show on April 5th at the Middle East in Cambridge. The band was joined with support from the lovely John Roseboro and Co. They had the room bobbing and dancing all night. Ron Gallo has just released a phenomenal
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Australian musician Courtney Barnett treated fans to an intimate, acoustic performance at Northampton’s own Iron Horse Music Hall on January 24th. The show had a relaxed playfulness to it, starting with Hachiku, the supporting act, instructing the crowd to all stomp one foot at the same time to startle
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Matt and Kim are an honorary punk band. Their special brand of indie pop has something about it that you can mosh to every song, and the crowd at the House of Blues on November 23rd made no exception to the rule. From crowd surfers, to a “wall of love”
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Photo by Colin McLaughlin [I] admit it. Even after many years of music writing, I still have no sense of whether or not an album, or single, or artist’s commercial products are good or bad. Take producer/artist Flying Lotus. Those fish-slap beats, clunky bits of proto-industrial noise, and
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Photos by Carrie Johnston The Black Angels’ spin on 60’s psych-rock is nothing short of monumental. Jim Morrisson died too soon, but thank goodness people like Alex Maas are alive now to channel his voice and break through the haunting spectrum of sound that The Doors (Pink Floyd, Jefferson
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Photos by Carrie Johnston [A] prominent downtown venue on a warm Saturday attracts all species of night crawlers. Due to this, nothing exclusive or particular about VietNam playing at Dante’s on such a night struck me. The noncommittal crowd was thin to begin with, then fattened when VietNam started,
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Photos by Colin McLaughlin [M]ost bands give you a waiting period before they blow up. Time to fall in love before you start to feel like you’ve been slighted by the mainstream for stealing “your band.” Time to walk around with their words in your headphones before you