On March 3 Deer Tick played the Paradise between opener Dawes (gimmicky country rock) and headliner Middle Brother (which is actually just a sloppy combination of Dawes, Deer Tick and another band, Delta...

On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Boston University’s digital daily BU Today ran a story titled “BU Alum Assails Feminism as ‘Dead End Road’,” and unintentionally incited...

Growing up, I was under the impression that my dad only liked a few things: Garrison Keillor, The Blues Brothers and Taj Mahal. These facts narrowed the Christmas list down quite a bit, prompting me to...

Since his last album under the moniker Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst has stayed busy. During the last four years, Oberst has been involved in Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley River Band, as well as Monsters...

There’s a brotherly love that has nothing to do with Philadelphia embedded in most music scenes, and there isn’t a scene around that embodies that more than the grooves that are flowing out of New...

Rival Schools has been around in some form since 1999. Billed as a hardcore ‘supergroup,’ the New York-based band is comprised of members of late 1980s/early 1990s hardcore groups. Pedals is the band’s...

Gentlemen Hall’s Sunday night show downstairs at The Middle East was smoking hot, literally. Three songs into their nine-song set, the bass started smoking. Bassist Rory Given and his bandmates handled...

It had been 364 days since Parliament-Funkadelic had last taken the stage at Boston’s House of Blues, and 252 sad days since the death of guitarist, bandleader and notorious diaper man Garry “Starchild”...

Radiohead has made a career of taking left turns. After their 1997 alternative rock masterpiece, OK Computer (EMI), the band went out and made the ambitious electronic music opus Kid A (EMI, 2000). After...

Dr. Dog breezed into town last weekend to play back-to-back nights at the Paradise Rock Club, an annual tradition that has developed a large and loyal fan base in Boston. For the past two years, these...