With no toleration for dead air, the band packed song after song without sparing the audience a single breath, making the high-power set all that more impressive.
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Pop ‘stache chats nostalgia, prom and a future full-length album …
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The night promptly began with a quick set of Bastardgeist’s melancholic eclectronica. The Chicago duo—one half resembling a geek squad Moby DJ, the other a hipster club kid—was tensely arranged face-to-face, synth-to-synth, a 21st century satirical dueling pianos. Distorted hints of New Order prevailed in melancholic loops, and the faint vocals often veered off ambient […]
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Upon first glance of Marcus Mumford and his hokey band of fellow Brit folksters, not much has changed. Even the idea of a percussionist is regarded as an unwelcome pipe dream to the bare bones quartet. Frontman Mumford is still proudly sporting a gravity-defying Flock of Seagulls coif, and this British quartet is still reeling […]
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Mirage Rock isn’t quite a tragedy, but sure isn’t a comeback.
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There are few infallible cures for the unsettling alienation that can result from day-to-day human interaction.
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One of few token shows outside of the Metro’s alt-rock bread and butter, First Aid Kit’s appearance at Metro on Sept. 24 seemed to be a promising break from distortion pedals and head thrashing. Cashing in on America’s love affair with hyper-nostalgia and sepia-toned Americana imagery, the Swedish duo’s audience was putty in their hands. […]
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Is it because the generation before us was so creatively innovative, or does our generation have nothing artistically worthwhile to offer?
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Despite overtly clichéd Americana imagery and unremarkable musicianship, Broken Brights serves as a transition, into a new vein of his career.
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Following up their 2009 debut album “Up From Below,” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes are continuing their reign in the hippie folk sphere that they created for themselves.
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Which came first, the beauty or the beat?
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A relentless work ethic and willingness to experiment has produced Out of the Game, one of Wainwright’s most innovative, cheerful records yet.
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