When the dance-funk clan, !!!, rolled through Boston on their non-stop worldwide tour, it was apparent that despite being worn down, they can always get it up. ...-
When the dance-funk clan, !!!, rolled through Boston on their non-stop worldwide tour, it was apparent that despite being worn down, they can always get it up. ... -
Yo La Tengo have not mellowed with age. They may have released something like fifteen albums, they may be built around a husband-and-wife duo, they may be the longest-running indie-rock band this side of (also husband-and-wife) Sonic Youth, etc., but Hoboken’s own has... -
Some musicians' works naturally lend themselves to electric guitar-only sets. Bob Mould’s is one, with intricate-yet-speedy guitar and raw, emotional vocals (QRO review). Cracker’s David Lowery and Johnny Hickman are too, with their old school alt-country mix of guitar twang and indie rock.... -
Is there a more engaging and enjoyable frontman in indie rock than Art Brut’s Eddie Argos? The band has yet to release their second album (It’s A Bit Complicated drops this June - QRO review), yet they have legions of fans and ‘franchises’... -
Bob Mould hit the Bowery Ballroom with a set that was short on time, but long on substance. One of indie-punk’s greatest heroes, Mould played a thirty-minute rapid-fire set drawing from his wide back catalog, including his seminal eighties punk rock band Hüsker Dü, his... -
While the biggest Nor’easter in fifteen years was pounding the Atlantic seaboard, Young Galaxy rocked Mercury Lounge with an unbelievably impressive show. The Montreal-based band swung through New York on April 15th, in the lead-up to the release of their self-titled debut (
One might have fears going into a Calla show, after seeing the crowd all dressed in black, the alt-goths fixing their hair in the men’s bathroom, and the show beginning (and to a degree, remaining) in the dark.
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Is Land of Talk about to blow up? The Montreal trio might be too late to get in on the ’03-’05 Canadian Invasion, but they’ve definitely got a chance to go places, with their catchy-yet-touching sound, that works both when it goes big,...
Ever since Frank Black and Kim Deal buried the hatchet in 2004 and indie-gods The Pixies got back together at Coachella, a number of once-sundered alternative acts from the eighties and nineties have reunited. Lou Barlow has the unique distinction of being in two of...