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Tommy Stinson

by Kirsten Ferguson April 12, 2012

“Thanks for all coming out and supporting this little school in Haiti I fell in love with,” said Tommy Stinson at the start of his rock benefit on Tuesday night at Club Helsinki to raise ...

Colin Stetson, Tyshawn Sorey, Sarah Neufeld

by Raurri Jennings April 12, 2012

The black-box theater at EMPAC was dark except for the track lights running up either side of the room. A fugue of sampled drum fills, cut-and-paste chords, and disembodied voices panned in the house speakers. ...

A Barrel of Fun

by Elyse Beaudoin April 4, 2012

Two musical monsters, That 1 Guy and Buckethead, combined their power to make crowds come alive at Northern Lights last week. They first teamed up as the Frankenstein Brothers in 2008 when they released the ...

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S(around)OUND

by Jeff Nania March 29, 2012

The Troy Gasholder building was transformed into an apocalyptic edge of the world on Saturday and Sunday nights. Artist and RPI professor Michael Oatman was captain of the team that brought this large-scale interactive multimedia ...

Lower Dens

by Josh Potter March 15, 2012

When Jana Hunter told the crowd at Valentine’s that they were “the most fun we’ve had this trip,” it might have come off as the cursory flattery a band will build into their stagecraft to ...

David Grisman Folk Jazz Trio

by Jeremy D. Goodwin March 15, 2012

At some point you stop trying to put your finger on exactly which genres David Grisman is synthesizing at a given moment. His prodigious list of albums and band projects includes some straight-up bluegrass, newgrass, ...

Mindless Self Indulgence

by Elyse Beaudoin March 15, 2012

The crowd at Northern Lights was dotted with spiky dyed hair and piercings on Friday. Some were dressed as teddy bears or a cross between Cookie Monster and Sully from Monsters Inc. One man even ...

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Jane’s Addiction

by Jeremy D. Goodwin March 8, 2012

Fuckin’ A. Midway through a thoroughly gripping, third-tune “Mountain Song,” it occurred to me very clearly: In a more just musical world, Jane’s Addiction would be U2. Or vice versa. In a sold-out, Friday night concert at ...

WCDB 34th Anniversary Music Festival

by Raurri Jennings March 8, 2012

The crowd for the the WCDB 34th Anniversary Music Festival at Valentine’s was a mix of rowdy students, veteran DJs and rock-show enthusiasts, with some in attendance donning paper-happy birthday hats and balloons. Stretched over ...

Randy Brecker Quintet featuring Ada Rovatti

by Jeff Nania March 8, 2012

Trumpeter Randy Brecker and saxophonist Ada Rovatti came through town Saturday night to play a mix of originals and standards with some of the local heavyweights. Drummer Dave Calarco, bassist John Menegon and guitarist Matt ...

Lucky Dragons

by The Staff February 23, 2012

Google the term “actual reality” and you’ll find a Hollywood production company, a web design firm, a profile on the MIT admissions site, the Wikipedia entry for “reality,” a messageboard for fans of the musical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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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 ...

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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