2010: The year the Dirty Dishes released their self-titled EP. 2011: The year everyone pegged the Dirty Dishes to blow the fuck up. 2012: The year the Dirty Dishes blew the fuck up.... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Some sweet Class of 2012 double-dipping going on tonight around town, as ANIMAL TALK kick-off a sold Thursday night rock show at T.T. The Bear's Place in Cambridge (with BrownBoot, the Future... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Eleven months from now, when everyone's busy trying to one-up each other with their Best of 2012 lists, two records that got the release party treatment on the same Saturday night in late January... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
That long-awaited and long-ago-completed new BON SAVANTS record -- the follow-up to 2006's Post-Rock Defends The Nation -- is finally starting to see the light of day. The Boston indie rock... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Sweet mistress autumn, where have you gone? It's kinda fucked how the selfish year-end holidays come along to seduce us away from the greatest season of the year, and by the time you're frantically... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
From the growing GHouse collective come two new artists poised to break out in 2012. BADKNIGHT, a Boston-based lullaby-pop duo of Emily Lenae and Devin McKnight, released debut record It's Alright... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Yes! The long-awaited debut EARTHQUAKE PARTY cassette, -- if you don't count the live online release we did with the lovely Allston trio over the summer, ahemz'ies -- has finally been posted... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
CQ, meets T.T.'s. The Phoenix can confirm that CQ PRESENTS, the Boston-based booking agency that oversees nightly live music at Allston venues Great Scott and O'Briens Pub, has been hired to... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
We try to keep the horn-tooting to a minimum around here, but we'd be remiss if we didn't give a heads-up about Boston Phoenix music editor and WFNX local-music host MICHAEL... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
WIDOWSPEAK, "In the Pines" (Live at Great Scott, 9/19/11) The reason the other night's VIVIAN GIRLS show was lousy with Phoenix music writers? That would be LIZ PELLY's one-woman... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Having to work in the morning didn't stop people from coming out to Great Scott last night to see CRAFT SPELLS and GARDENS AND VILLA, a West Coast duo -- Seattle and Santa Barbara, respectively --... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
The wispy charm and charcoal-pop sounds of Seattle's CRAFT SPELLS has been so embedded within our collective headspace, we here on Brookline Avenue decided to throw the "Boston Phoenix... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Saturday night at Great Scott was weird. Fun, but weird. This sold-out all-acoustic endeavor drew people with scally caps and neck tattoos, people presumably there for the first almost-DUCKY BOYS... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
TEENGIRL FANTASY was my favorite new act to emerge from 2010. In a year where more music was slathered in lo-fi gloss than not, their brand of retro-sheen shone the brightest. Delicately sourced... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Holy hell what a dance party lined up tonight at Great Scott, the Allston venue that's been stacking its dance party deck lately by promoting pansexual drag night Don't Ask Don't Tell... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
At Great Scott on a humid Sunday night, the Allston basement kids came out to see their buddies CAMDEN, Dirty Virgins, and Horse Thief, play at a place with drinks that cost more than the liquor... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
This afternoon our pals over at Sleepover Shows posted a few videos from our fund raiser back in May, an effort that helped raise some coin for the southern communities decimated by tornados.... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Yeah yeah, the show isn't for another few weeks, but we're so stoked on CRAFT SPELLS' sunshine-sparkle summer jam "After The Moment," well, we couldn't just make out with it... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
DRUMMERS are a power trio of actual drummers who abandoned their native instrument to don axes and keys, with the exception of Pretty & Nice guitarist Jeremy Mendicino, who serves as Drummers'... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Columbus, Ohio trio TIMES NEW VIKING started making distortion-heavy, home-recorded noise pop in 2005, later releasing records with Siltbreeze, Matador, Wichita, and, last month, Merge. Their... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .