Black Cocaine: Mobb Deep’s first release in five years
Since the release of their classic sophomore album, The Infamous, Prodigy and Havoc, also known as Mobb Deep, have constantly released albums that any hip-hop fan must have in their collection. They have survived much, from beefing with Tru Life and signing with G-Unit Records to Prodigy being diagnosed with sickle-cell anemia and, most recently, [...]
Answers With The Antlers: 10 Questions with Darby Cicci
On Tuesday, The Muse’s Music Editor, Lucien Flores, talked with Darby Cicci of the ethereal indie-rockers, The Antlers. The Brooklyn-based act burst onto the music scene in 2009 with their depressingly beautiful tale of terminal illness, Hospice. Cicci is the band’s talented keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist: a perfect fit for vocalist Pete Silberman and drummer Michael [...]
Everyone likes Girls
For me, The Paramount Center for the Arts is a weird place to see a show. For one, there are seats. Seats with cushions. The sound quality is actually good and there really isn’t a bad seat in the place. It’s typically used for plays or musicals, and it shows: the place is absolutely beautiful. [...]
Yuck The Rest
In a small, grungy club in Cambridge, British indie sensation Yuck heralds a return to a simpler, purer and ultimately better form of music. While most bands today compete in an ever more grotesque competition of gimmicks and theatrics, Yuck delivers nothing more than rock, with the stage presence of an 80’s shoegaze group. Yuck [...]
Baby, I like it: A night out with Enrique
A sea of Pauly D’s and wannabe Shakiras crowded TD Garden on Thursday night for what I will officially deem as an “Enrique fest.” Though Pitbull, who was supposed to open for Enrique, was a no-show (I’m no longer a Pitbull fan, since he couldn’t dale from Miami), myself and my fellow Latino-music lovers were [...]
