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Preview: Sondre Lerche x Paradise Rock Club (11/22)
I am scheduled to interview Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche at 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday. Lerche is in the middle of an east-coast tour, and as the hour arrives, I hunker down at my desk with a magazine, anticipating the usual problems (late phone call, crappy connection, tight time constraints). But just as I settle in, the phone rings -- right on time.
Mellow and soft-spoken, Lerche chats from New York City, where he is hanging out prepping for his gig at the Bowery Ballroom.
“I’m definitely playing some new songs,” he says. “It’s sort of a mini-tour to try out the new ...
Local Sound: Pretty & Nice
While I'm chatting with Boston rock trio Pretty & Nice at the release party for their new album,
Get Young, one thing becomes abundantly clear: they're sick of hearing about Elvis Costello.
"His influence is that we write every song in the key of E," quips guitarist Jeremy Mendicino when I ask about the ubiquitous comparisons between Pretty & Nice and the new-wave pop rocker (see here, here, here, here, here, here).
In the end, the litany of Costello references is a product of laziness more than anything else. The easiest way to review a band is to throw out a list of ...
Local Sound: DJ Die Young and Baltimoroder
It's Thursday night in Central Square, and Middlesex Lounge swells with dark, throbbing bodies. Breakers smash into the floor and disappear into whirling, black clouds. Silver streaks snake through the pulsing shadows, and drunken bass kicks erupt into the air.
Presiding over the room from a sound rig in the back, Erik Pearson scowls at his laptop. Better known as Baltimoroder to the clubbers who have gathered for his LP release, Pearson furrows his brow and pours over his library in search of hand claps or a high-hat riff to pump into the crowd...
Interviews and samples after the break! Continue Reading...
Review: Does It Offend You, Yeah? x The Great Scott
Meg managed to spin a botched man-on-the-street interview into a few beers with James Rushent from DIOYY?. Check out what she had to say about their gig at the Great Scott!
British electro-rock group Does It Offend You, Yeah? ended the summer on a high note when they shook up the Great Scott in Allston last month.
DIOYY?, whose name is taken from a line in the British version of The Office, has been on tour with Nine Inch Nails, and the band generated some buzz this summer with charged performances at Coachella and Lollapalooza.
A mixed bag of fans turned out ...
The Interview: Immortal Technique
We hit up Immortal Technique while he was in Boston this summer for Rock The Bells and a performance at the UGHH store. Tech hit us back this week with some thoughts on foreign policy and the influences behind his latest project, The 3rd World.
Whether or not you like his music, it's undeniable that Felipe Coronel has balls. The Harlem MC's lyrics would likely warrant a trip to Gitmo Bay, if not for the first amendment.
On a cut from his latest album, Coronel expresses his desire to engage in sex acts with the first lady and Secretary of State, before ...
The Interview: Ryan Durkin
You can catch Ryan Durkin Tuesday night at the Enormous Room OR Saturday at a face-melting edition of Basstown, featuring DJ Die Young, DJ Ghostdad, Volvox and Kingdom from NYC!
The night I met Ryan Durkin started with bootleg-grade vodka and ended with something called a Bad Babysitter. Needless to say, I didn't take notes on our conversation.
Luckily, we got a second chance to catch up with the N.H.-born DJ this week. Ryan, who was one of the organizers behind the abortive Fuzzy Coconuts Charles River rave, has been looping beats for rapper Black Element and is starting to make ...
Tilly and the Wall at the Paradise Rock Club (7/31)
Last week, Nick White told That Hottness that Tilly and the Wall's live act is "at the peak of what it's ever been." The five-some from Omaha proved the keyboardist's words in their electric set at the Paradise on Thursday night.
White and company walked onto the balloon-covered stage and immediately got the Boston crowd moving. The band members clapped, stomped and rocked their way through an energetic performance, accompanied by great sound and some bold lighting. Pictures and video after the break. Continue Reading...
The Interview: Nick White of Tilly and the Wall
We racked up some long-distance minutes with Tilly and the Wall’s Nick White last week while he was travelling through Texas. The keyboardist talked to us about adolescent love rituals, the Tilly Texas Crawl and his band’s tap-dancing rhythm section.
I catch up with Tilly and the Wall’s keyboardist, Nick White, over the phone while he embarks on an upcoming gig in Austin. I imagine White and the fashionable five-some lounging on a tour bus, drinking a few beers and recounting late-night adventures. I picture them rehearsing new songs, covering old favorites, enjoying the open road…
In truth, their afternoon ...
MGMT at the Paradise Rock Club (7/23)
As promised, here are some bootleg clips of the MGMT show at the Paradise. Unfortunately, none of these snippets do justice to the performance from James Richardson, the band's guitar player, who was in top form Wednesday. The group let him off the leash on a few tunes and he shredded like a beast. You can start to here him take over at the end of Weekend Wars.
Electric Feel
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The Interview: James Richardson of MGMT
James Richardson, lead guitarist for electric, eccentric, psych-pop sensation MGMT, took some time to chat with us about opening for Radiohead, jamming on the festival scene, and turning out the Paradise Rock Club next week.
“Andrew is sick,” says a voice in my phone over background noise and stifled giggles. “This is James. I’m filling his spot for the interview today.”
Initially, I was scheduled to interview Andrew VanWyngarden, one of the original, funky co-founders of MGMT, so I was surprised to be greeted by a replacement. But what a substitute to have.
Richardson, lead guitarist of the indie-psych-rock-pop group, chats like ...
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After being rescued from the brink of extinction a decade ago, the Moleskine notebook has been reborn as the PBR of stationery goods. A marketing campaign from Italian publisher Modo & Modo cast the oilcloth journal as a requisite for travelers, writers, artists and otherwise impoverished people, and the company’s popularity has since mushroomed into [...]
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Preview: Sondre Lerche x Paradise Rock Club (11/22)»
I am scheduled to interview Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche at 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday. Lerche is in the middle of an east-coast tour, and as the hour arrives, I hunker down at my desk with a magazine, anticipating the usual problems (late phone call, crappy connection, tight time constraints). But just as I settle in, [...]
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Breakfast With The MBTA - Volume I»
The yearly clusterfuck that is move-in day brought the city to its knees again this week, and like thousands of other Bostonians, we spent the afternoon cramming a U-Haul truck down one-way streets with the ease of childbirth.
We’ve been stretching out in the new TH headquarters deep in the heart of Allston Rock City, and [...]
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