REVIEW: Lady Lamb the Beekeeper at TT the Bear’s
I wonder if this is what the forty-niners felt like when they found that first gold nugget in the river. I first heard folk/rock-ish songstress Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, about a week ago, later to the game than much of the Boston scene that served as turf for the musician’s roots. After playing music around Boston, […]
REVIEW: The unconditional love of Yo La Tengo
I have not been faithful to Yo La Tengo. I chanced upon Yo La Tengo as an opener for The National in 2011, and I fell head over heels in love. I had heard of the band, but their name had melted into the same funky indie vocabulary that melds Beach House, Best Coast and Beach […]
ALBUM REVIEW: Lady Lamb the Beekeeper’s “Ripely Pine”
I recently read an interview with Aly Spaltro, the twenty-something brain behind ineffably original act Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, where she described her music as “pulpy,” and after a few listens to her album (by few, I mean about 20 in the past week) and a few minutes with a thesaurus, I can conjure no […]
$5 in Chinatown: Why we should all eat Chinese pastries
MUSE sent staffer Noëmie Carrant, a self-professed foodie, to Chinatown to find the most compelling food that $5 can buy in the area: February means one thing for me: Chinese New Year. Being half-Taiwanese, Asian culture has played a huge part in my life. As a child, I would devour my Ama’s (grandmother’s) dishes, made […]
Side Effects: Soderbergh’s dogged final dissertation
There may be no one person more responsible for the rise of the independent movie scene than Steven Soderbergh. His landmark feature Sex, Lies, and Videotape was an effective psychological thriller, because it constantly surprised with the “magic” possible in filmmaking. It redefined the playful, synthetic Hollywood ideal into more raw and intimidating filmmaking. His focus was […]
Events
- Hallelujah! The resurrection of Kanye West, Yeezus graces TD Garden
- Reel Big Fish ‘skanks’ into Royale, leaves crowd in frenzy
- ‘Waiting for Godot’: Absurdity, time and ‘entertainment’
- REVIEW: The Fratellis sell out Paradise Rock Club with spunky, garage rock
- REVIEW: Of Montreal creates ‘paradise for the weirdo’ for Halloween
Film & TV
- ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ gives gloomy portrayal of ‘60s folk movement
- Disney’s ‘Frozen’: A frosty fairytale with feminist twist
- REVIEW: Film “Philomena” breaks cliché movie mold with great expertise
- INTERVIEW: Oscar Isaac of new Coen brothers’ film,“Inside Llewyn Davis”
- The Hunger Games trilogy heats up with newest film, “Catching Fire”
Music
- Hallelujah! The resurrection of Kanye West, Yeezus graces TD Garden
- Pentatonix revamps tired hits with an a cappella twist in second album
- INTERVIEW: Dr. Dog’s Pearson polishes lo-fi sound in ‘B-Room’
- Reel Big Fish ‘skanks’ into Royale, leaves crowd in frenzy
- REVIEW: The Fratellis sell out Paradise Rock Club with spunky, garage rock
