Our friends Adam Marcinek went and shot Mayer Hawthorne and Chromeo this past Tuesday at the House of Blues in Boston. He brought back this amazing set of photos…
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Last Friday night The Low Anthem closed their Fall Tour at the historic Somerville Theatre. This wasn’t just any “end-of-tour” show though, this was an all-out homecoming. Playing to a packed house of friends and fans alike, the Low Anthem culminated years of creativity, experimentation and pure musical genius at a venue made for a band with their sound.
Showcasing their catalog in chronological order, the band played an assortment of songs off each of their albums. They began with songs from What the Crow Brings
Our good friend @soozygreenberg (LMB Boston, co-host of This Week on Lot) went and saw tUnE-YaRdS last week in Boston and filed this report for us… –Editor
The last time (New England native) Merrill Garbus performed at the Paradise she was singing back-up vocals in the small, front room known as the Paradise Lounge with her friend’s local band. Last Wednesday night she dominated the main stage, leading Oakland’s tUne-yArDs as they played to a sold out Boston crowd. With school recently back in session, 700+ college students (and a handful of non-students) packed the Paradise Rock Club ready to see just how this quirky band makes their unique sound come to life. READ MORE
Our good friend Adam Marcinek has been hounding me to stay caught up with the rest of the live music world happening on the internet these days. You’ve undoubtedly noticed a heavy radio silence around here with intermittent snippets of insight here and there, but it’s still nowhere close to how we want to be churning out quality content in the near future. Stay tuned, but ahead of that, stay caught up with Adam and I.
“Caught up on what?” you ask? Well, Battles is back on the road to support their new album, Glass Drop, and last night was the band’s first state-side performance since the album’s release. Adam was there to capture the action so read on for the rest of his shots, and I’ll be catching them at a sold-out Bottom of the Hill performance just next week (the day before I head out to New Orleans for Jazz Fest).
If you want a taste of that signature sound that comes off so much better on the new album than it’s ever sounded, check out this short clip we got…
Photo by @Adammarcinek
STS9 is currently in the midst of their summer tour, and they made a stop in Boston last night with fellow visionaries, Lotus, The Album Leaf, and John Hughes. Our friend Adam Marcinek (@Adammarcinek) was on hand to capture the event for LMB and he got some amazing photos. Go ahead and click the first photo for a larger version, then use your arrow keys on your keyboard to flip through the gallery. READ MORE
Photo by Melissa Ostrow
At first glance at this photo, you may be thinking that Courtney Love is back to her passionate (and trainwrecky) self. You would be correct on both levels. The queen of tabloid fodder brought her new band with an old name, Hole, into Boston’s Ames Hotel on Wednesday for an intimate show for a local radio station’s select audience. Here’s how it went down…
Courtney Love kept Boston fans waiting a whopping three hours yesterday afternoon before turning up at the Ames Hotel for her WFNX acoustic gig – but at least she had a good excuse.
“I was at Harvard,” the rock trainwreck told the audience. “I went to see an old boyfriend. He’s a first-year professor. I totally just got (expletive).”
