Cambridge duo-turned-trio BANDITAS are back with a new full-length, Save The Rats, ready for release in the middle of the summer. Hayley Thompson-King, Molly Maltezos, and new recruit, drummer Candace Clement of Bunny’s a Swine, have released three tracks from the album as they prep its release, one being “Dope Sick.” The track shows strides towards a heavier garage sound, but keeping an allegiance to both an alt-country twang, and their signature angelic harmonies...
The Middle East Downstairs was absolutely packed when I arrived to see The Wombats, a three piece band from Liverpool. I'd been there before, but never on a night like this. The room was teeming with fans who'd been patiently waiting for The Wombats' return to Boston...
Canadian songstress Feist has worked her way up through local venues over the years, graduating from TT The Bear’s and the Middle East in Cambridge to return as a full-fledged pop star, headlining a sold-out House of Blues on Landsdowne Street this past Monday night...
Music writers will forever use the term “’80s” to describe a sound reminiscent of another electro-drum time. It was an era when computerized distortions were an exciting new opportunity in the recording studio, taken full advantage of by the likes of The Cure and Billy Idol for a genre that watermarked itself on an entire decade. But the sound credited to the past is just as prominent as before...
A crowd full of leather jackets gathered on a hazy Sunday night at Great Scott as the warm, low lights fell over Jana Hunter and her latest band, Lower Dens. No, this was not the place to be for people looking to see a wild, upbeat show. But rather, Lower Dens taps into something that is, on the surface, more muted and understated...
After a brief excursion across New England and the Tri-State area, local favorites Kal Marks and Chandeliers are bringing it on home this Saturday at O’Brien’s with a little help from The Sharpest, ONSLO, and Big Mess. Kal Marks exhibits technical skill that’s sometimes rare to find in the dirty basements around here...
For Mexican-born Alan Palomo, pop stardom sort of runs in the family. Influenced by his father's Mexican pop career in the 70s and 80s, Palomo is now central to one of the hottest bands in electronic and chill-wave music. He, along with Leanne Macomber, Jason Faries, and Lars Larsen uniquely blend with party-starting keyboard melodies and gritty synthesizers to create one of a kind psychedelic tracks...
“The South is in the house, now who can fuck with that?” Bun B asked on the DJ Premier produced Let ‘Em Know off of Bun’s 5-mic 2010 record Trill OG. This past Tuesday the Middle East was introduced to this same sentiment from the Mississippi native, Big K.R.I.T...
2012 already seems like the perfect year for 90’s band reunions. Pulp, Garbage, Refused, it’s all happening once again in the form of big festivals. Chapel Hill post-grungers Archers of Loaf have done the same, but on their own terms...
“I want you to join together with the band.” -Old dude who once also insisted on dying young
Rock 'n' roll has been around the block. It's got tinnitus, arthritis, and tennis elbow. Even the bands of my youth, who were always divorced by decades from rock's heyday, are now reuniting as legacy acts to cash in on the nostalgia circuit (hang it up, Rivers!)...
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