This show has been steadily approaching for months like a bullet train through the chunnel, a glaring white light relentlessly speeding at us, closer and closer and you get the picture. Act for act, song for song, this is easily the best live bill you will see in Boston this spring, and it would seem Autochrome , which celebrates the release of its full-length debut Friday night, has used the same precision in selecting the support slots that serves it so well in crafting its alluring blend of Chameleons UK 's brand of '80s darkwave and modern, [...]
And here we are at the end of 2011. If you had told us a year ago that the things which transpired this year were coming, we would not have believed you. While for much of the year, and much to our frustration, music had to take a back seat to real life, that only increased its importance to this writer. Cross-country flights soundtracked by Broken Shoulder . Getting up to speed mornings listening to Rival Schools . Quiet weekends with J Mascis , summer vacation with Algernon Cadwallader and The War On Drugs [...]
And here we are at the end of 2011. If you had told us a year ago that the things which transpired this year were coming, we would not have believed you. While for much of the year, and much to our frustration, music had to take a back seat to real life, that only increased its importance to this writer. Cross-country flights soundtracked by Broken Shoulder . Getting up to speed mornings listening to Rival Schools . Quiet weekends with J Mascis , summer vacation with Algernon Cadwallader and The War On Drugs [...]
[ You didn't think they were going to leave you hanging, did you? That's not The Hush Now's style. In this episode of the band's Memos Tour Diary, bassist Pat MacDonald recounts the whirlwind of the tour's final days en route to the quintet's triumphant homecoming set at Precinct in Somerville, Mass. last weekend. Billmates Soccer Mom and Chandeliers also turned in jaw-dropping sets, as a result of which we were smiling all night. In case you are just tuning in, we reviewed The Hush Now's new record Memos right [...]
Feel the hype cycle! We are proud to present along with our friends at The Ash Gray Proclamation Saturday night's The Hush Now tour homecoming show at Precinct Bar in Somerville, Mass. We hand-picked the majority of the bill ourselves and think that the line-up is not only the very best, but also the Clicky Clicky-est bill we could have mustered. Check out the Facebook Event page right here . The night is centered around the final show of local guitar pop heroes The Hush Now 's current tour supporting its superlative [...]
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Soccer Mom is probably not a band name that would make you burst with curiosity, given the suburban USA parent the name conjures. Take a chance with it though and there's a real gem of an EP hidden behind the misnomer. The band, a four piece from Boston, Massachusetts, go some way to bucking the recent trend of lo-fi dream pop coming our of every corner of the globe it seems. These guys use some of the bookmarks from that particular genre, while adding their own brand of noise over. According to the band's own website [...]
The few inconsequential hiccups during Soccer Mom 's striking live set for its You Are Not Going To Heaven EP release show -- a broken string, a false start here and there -- are entirely understandable within the context of the Boston quartet's now reliably cataclysmic live performances. At any given moment Friday evening guitarist/singers Dan Parlin and William Scales were doing all they could to keep their respective streams of colliding positrons blasting from their amps from crossing, which theoretically would have vaporized all of TT The Bear's, as well as much of the [...]
One week from tonight, it's the big, big Soccermom record release show for the band's dynamite EP You Are Not Going To Heaven . It's going to be the bomb. Emergency Music , Autochrome and Marconi also playing. Tickets right here .
Last year I was made aware of the Boston group Soccer Mom with their solid debut single for "Bill Cosby in Glamorous Chains". Having connections to a few other Boston bands that have been featured on the pages of the blog in the past, I'd figured them to be much more in line with the post-punk or straight up rock and roll types that I'd heard before. However the band surprised me with a fantastic blend of throwback melodic indie-rock and wrapping shoegazy type fuzz. At the time I think [...]
Absolutely crushing 10" extended play release from pack-leading, Boston-based noise rock juggernaut Soccermom . The quartet's 2010 single "Bill Cosby In Glamorous Chains" b/w "High On Dad" was an impressive debut, and early shows were remarkable, but Soccermom has further refined its attack. As evidenced by this six-song collection, the 'Mom continues to set its bearings via sonic references to early Lilys , Swervedriver and Polvo , but its live performances have become increasingly desperate, dynamic, precise and heavy. The band closed a set with the new song "Southern [...]
Guillermo Sexo graciously engineered a dream bill of local acts for its record release show last night at Precinct in Somerville, but the crowd was certainly at its densest for the main event when the Boston-based quartet commenced its set after midnight. Being feted was the band's fourth full-length Secret Wild , an entrancing nine-song set that crackles with energy while charting middle ground between heavy atmospheric shoegaze (put on your good headphones and listen to the album closer "Industry" embedded below several times and see if it doesn't somehow change you) and Led Zeppelin -styled English [...]
So we know earlier in the summer, we were all like "the Ringo Deathstarr / Young Adults show is the show of the summer," or some such. Which may turn out being true. But what if it becomes a close call? What if the Guillermo Sexo record release show next weekend turns out to be seriously off the chizz-nain? After all, the new Guillermo Sexo record Secret Wild is wonderful [review forthcoming]. And also Clicky Clicky faves Soccermom AND Young Adults are also on the bill. And both [...]
Thursday night at PA's in Somerville, Mass., three of Boston's best -- we're fudging New York/New Jersey-based Get Help 's geographical bona fides here on purpose because of history, man -- brought their A game for an evening packed cheek to jowl with rock that howled. Beatings co-fronter Eldridge Rodriguez stuck the landing on a gripping and occasionally curious set that drew heavily from his superlative 2011 solo long-player You Are Released . The collection grafts onto Rodriquez 's characteristically intense guitar shouters electronic beats and samples, and it was interesting to [...]
Midriff Records will release next month the sophomore set from this, the other Beatings side project, Get Help . Fast on the heels of Beatings ying Eldridge Rodriguez ' recent solo effort You Are Released , Beatings yang Tony Skalicky (along with compadres including Mike Ingenthron) readies The Good Green Earth for delivery to the masses May 10. The 11-song set is a wholly satisfying amalgamation of all your favorite fruit. "A Brittle World" piggybacks on a melody from Pixies ' timeless and delightful "La La Love You;" [...]
With the inimitable Soccermom , who are planning a release of their own sure to knock socks. Midriff Records issues Eldridge Rodriguez ' You Are Released tomorrow. Buy it here .
We speculated here earlier this month that Greg Lyon 's debut solo set Nowhere Near Poughkeepsie was going to get lost in the end of the year shuffle. But after spending a lot of time with the record, we're of the belief that the late-year release date perfectly poises the set to settle into your conscience at a very appropriate time: during frozen, still winter days. The pervasive mood of one is wholly appropriate for the other; these are not hot summer party jams, but rather a series of reckonings approached in solitude, teeth about [...]
The Boston based Soccermom has been slowly putting things together for about five years now, beginning as a solo recording project for member Dan Parlin (guitar/vocals) on a completely opposite coast. After making his way back east, there Soccermom was formed by enlisting Danielle Deveau (bass), David Kaplan (drums), and William Scales (guitar) to round things out. I believe almost every member here has spent time in another Boston act Spanish Armada whom has appeared on these pages before as some may remember. Despite being together in some form [...]
Your biggest problem next week will be trying to juggle your schedule so you can see Soccermom AND The Hush Now play House Of Blues, Boston, Thursday despite the fact they are playing in different rooms at potentially the same time. Maybe cloning will become a reality by then. One can only hope. Soccermom 's show is free, and The Hush Now 's is RSVP, so make sure to get your plan straight.
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