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David Guetta

by The Staff February 16, 2012

Over the past couple years, the Washington Avenue Armory has established itself as an international tour stop for some of the biggest names in electronic dance music. On Feb. 2, French DJ David Guetta filled ...

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Peter Wolf

by The Staff February 16, 2012

Peter Wolf put on a clinic of cool Saturday night at the the Egg’s Swyer Theater, making up for an earlier canceled date. When leaving the show, a rock & roll drummer/lawyer exclaimed, “I absolutely ...

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To the Moon

by Josh Potter February 16, 2012

This past year has seen a sudden craze for pioneering French filmmaker Georges Méliès—a mere 110 years after he released his most famous film, A Trip to the Moon. Méliès and his work, of course, ...

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Grimes

by Josh Potter February 16, 2012

Like assholes, everyone has an opinion—of Lana del Rey. Mine: She’s actually a David Lynch-engineered femmebot designed to plug a Twin Peaks reality TV spinoff, The Voice (of Laura Palmer). Ultimately, she’s not worth paying ...

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Eyvind Kang

by Josh Potter February 16, 2012

While The Narrow Garden would probably get dumped in the “classical” rack at a record store—if those stil existed—violinist-composer Eyvind Kang comes to his solo material from a region as far removed as you might ...

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Megadeth

by The Staff February 9, 2012

This photo pretty much says it all. The sneer, the locks, the sweatbands, the mothertruckin’ double-necked geetar—Dave Mustaine is still about as metal as it gets. For almost 30 years, Megadeth have reigned over the ...

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Branford Marsalis Duo and Quartet

by Jeff Nania February 9, 2012

Everybody take a deep breath and slow down. This seemed to be the message emanating from the drunken neoclassical waltz “La Valse Kendall,” which saxophonist Branford Marsalis and pianist Joey Calderazzo opened with at Proctors ...

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Zammuto

by Josh Potter February 9, 2012

“Now this band exists,” Nick Zammuto announced after the first song his self-titled quartet performed Friday night at MASS MoCA. A resident of nearby Readsboro, Vt., Zammuto has long used the contemporary art museum as ...

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Thurston Moore

by The Staff February 2, 2012

Sonic Youth guitarist and psych-rock demigod Thurston Moore brought his solo band and Sunday best to Club Helsinki last Friday (Jan. 27). The Northampton, Mass., resident kicked off a new international leg of touring following ...

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Carolina Chocolate Drops

by Josh Potter February 2, 2012

Any band working in the “old time” genre does so with a preservationist ethos. It’s the degree to which these modern musicians decide to reinterpret traditional tunes that separates the revivalists from the purists. The ...

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Rascal Flatts

by Laura Leon February 2, 2012

I incessantly subject my two youngest children to my love of country music. Granted, they are a captive audience. Granted, they can’t reach the dials on the car radio and are forbidden to touch my ...

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The Major Lift

by The Staff February 2, 2012

I was excited for the Black Keys’ El Camino, I admit it. While the Keys lost me on Attack and Release with its awkward polish, I fell in love with them again on Brothers. Sure, ...

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WEXT/Metroland Local 518 Broadcast: Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned

by The Staff January 27, 2012

On Jan. 20, Alex Muro and Tim Koch of Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned stopped by the Metroland offices for a special edition of WEXT's Local 518, in advance of their headlining set at ...

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Cosmonauts

by Josh Potter January 25, 2012

It may sound like a contradiction in terms but, with The Demise of Daniel Raincourt, Glens Falls rock sextet Cosmonauts have managed to compress an impressively well-wrought conceptual epic into the EP format. To be ...

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Ani DiFranco

by Elyse Beaudoin January 25, 2012

Folk singer Ani DiFranco’s latest album, Which Side Are You On?, sways between liberating marches and light airy tunes. DiFranco’s staccato guitar carries her live-and-let-live spirit, anti-corporate messages, and feminist ideals. Every word, from soft ...

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La Sublime Porte: Voix d’Istanbul (1430-1750)

by B.A. Nilsson January 25, 2012

The music on this disc is both haunting and poignant. Haunting because it’s characteristic of the tunes that come out of the blending of cultures represented here. Poignant because it’s one of the last recordings ...

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The Lemonheads

by John Rodat January 19, 2012

There’s something slightly amnesiac about the appeal the Lemonheads have for me, apparently. The first time I saw the band, in 1993 touring the album Come on Feel the Lemonheads, my friends and I got ...

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Everclear

by The Staff January 19, 2012

So Much for the Afterglow, Everclear’s best-selling ’97 record, was far from a curtain call. The grunge-poppers were revelling in the afterglow Friday night at Northern Lights. Art Alexakis and company were in top form, ...

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

by Jeff Nania January 19, 2012

Edsel Gomez’s fingers riff on the piano and instantly focus the audience. The band members enter, and saxophonist Greg Handy blows a late-Coltrane style solo complete with intense polyphonics. Dee Dee Bridgewater graces the stage ...

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Timeless Virtuosity

by B.A. Nilsson January 12, 2012

The all-time, go-to, everybody-loves-it sonata for violin and piano was written in 1886 by César Franck. Edison had patented a recording device eight years earlier, and this piece gave musicians something to record on ever ...

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Objet d’art

by David King January 12, 2012

It’s a rare thing to find something so succinct and perfect as Cynic’s Carbon-Based Anatomy, like a little music box of out-of-this-time, ethereal prog rock. The six-song EP is far from straightforward or bare-bones: The ...

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Best of 2011: Recordings

by The Staff January 5, 2012

Critic: Josh Potter 1. St. Vincent Strange Mercy It’s hard to decide what I like best about Annie Clark: her girl-next-door persona, her voice that can go from bashful to Björk-y in a single song, her band who ...

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Best of 2011: Live

by The Staff January 5, 2012

Critic: Josh Potter 1. Francis and the Lights EMPAC, Oct. 29 Singer takes a 40-foot free fall into a hidden air cushion after performing a power ballad on a white Fender Rhodes perched on a ladder-accessed platform. ‘Nuff ...

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On the Rise

by The Staff December 29, 2011

DJ TruMastr and Lo-Fi Lobo, two parts of the Beatshot Collective, have been a force in the local hip-hop underground. With electric mandolin in-hand and a course set for the outer spheres, the Disposable Rocket Band ...

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On Tour

by The Staff December 29, 2011

A pair of heels didn’t prevent Sharon Jones from getting down at the Egg in January with her band the Dap-Kings Lightning Bolt pushed the limits of the Valentine’s circuit breaker and the human eardrum in ...

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