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Photos: The Darkness + Foxy Shazam at the Paradise Rock Club

The Darkness + Foxy Shazam perform live at the Paradise Rock Club on February 3, 2012.
February 3, 2012
By JOSH BERLINGER | February 10, 2012

From nukes to necro with Toxic Holocaust

Once in a while, a name can conveniently give you an accurate sketch of what a band sounds like.
Thrash and glow
By REYAN ALI | February 10, 2012

Out: Speedy Ortiz come together

The kickoff weekend of new local show bookers the Dreamhouse Collective was coming to a close a week ago last Monday night at Great Scott, but the walls of the Allston venue were still vibrating thanks to the grungy guitar reverb of Northamptom trio Spe
Building a Dreamhouse in Allston
By EMMA DESSAU | February 10, 2012

Inside the theatric folk appeal of You Won't

"It's about trying to let things come without judgment," says You Won't frontman Josh Arnoudse.
Willing Participants
By RYAN REED | February 10, 2012

Tim Berne composes himself

It's been almost exactly four years since Tim Berne's last visit to Boston— March 2008, to be precise, with jazz-prog guitarist David Torn's band Prezens.
Freedom Writer
By JON GARELICK | February 10, 2012

J the S | The Last Days

J the S has been promising The Last Days since he went by Jake the Snake.
Same Plate/Greater Good
By CHRIS FARAONE | February 10, 2012

The Punch Brothers | Who's Feeling Young Now?

For a group full of virtuosos, the Punch Brothers refuse to dole out prodigious string-murdering sessions.
Nonesuch (2012)
By ZETH LUNDY | February 10, 2012

Ital | Hive Mind

If there was a broken-record knock against electronic music in the last decade, it's that it all sounded the same.
Planet Mu
By MICHAEL C. WALSH | February 10, 2012

Tennis | Young & Old

Denver's Tennis, the husband/wife duo of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, are back with another slab of dreamy, feather-light pop.
Fat Possum (2012)
By RYAN REED | February 10, 2012

Die Antwoord | Ten$ion

Moreso than any "controversially-lipped" chanteuse (to borrow from one of Lana Del Rey's many observers), South African rap/rave/meme/satire/knuckleheads Die Antwoord beg the question:"Is that all there is?"
Zef Recordz
By DAN WEISS | February 10, 2012

Van Halen | A Different Kind of Truth

Who would've thought Eddie Van Halen would still be innovative in his late 50s?
Interscope
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | February 10, 2012

The Big Hurt: The miracle of Japanese Wikipedia

In a break from my usual bad-jokes format, I bring you something so strange and wonderful that I just had to share it with the world.
The miracle of Japanese
By DAVID THORPE | February 10, 2012

Vive la France

French music is tricky. It has an unmistakable accent, inflection, scent.
French music at the BSO; French opera at Boston Conservatory; plus, Peter Wispelwey, Judith Gordon, Russell Sherman and Frank Kelley, and Collage New Music
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | February 10, 2012

All emo is local

Remember the years before blog-rock, when scenes and sounds developed geographically?
Five scenes that grew organically
By LIZ PELLY | February 10, 2012

A punk phenomenon grows up

It's time we faced it: the vanguards of rock have gotten really old.
Punk is dead, right?
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | February 10, 2012

Emo: it might as well be a four-letter word

Back in 2001, when Bleed American was exploding all over modern-rock radio, I sat down with Jimmy Eat World guitarist Tom Linton and frontman Jim Adkins and asked about the emo label with which their group had been saddled.
De-evolution
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | February 10, 2012

Interview: Alice Bag of Stay at Home Bomb

Alice Bag (nee Armendariz), who shone bright in the Los Angeles punk scene of the late-1970s, will be in town Saturday to read from her book Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage and to play a few tunes at 7 pm at Rochambeau Library.
Once a punk rocker, always a punk rocker
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | February 10, 2012

Photos: Tool at the TD Garden

Tool performs live at the TD Garden on Saturday, January 28, 2012.
January 28, 2012
By TIM BUGBEE | February 03, 2012

Air | Le Voyage Dans La Lune

It was inevitable that Air would one day be asked to soundtrack a colorized version of an iconic 1902 silent French film about moon exploration, right? There's the French thing, the moon thing, the kitsch-cool factor.
Astralwerks (2012)
By ZETH LUNDY | February 03, 2012

Schoolboy Q | Habits & Contradictions

Without much that can be considered "structure" in terms of the verse-chorus-verse standard, Q confidently wobbles through an album's worth of jaded bangers.
Top Dawg Entertainment (2012)
By MICHAEL C. WALSH | February 03, 2012

Mark Lanegan Band | Blues Funeral

Unlike a few of his early '90s Seattle contemporaries who made tons of money, erstwhile Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan has not died, put out shitty records, or made a self-deprecating cameo on Portlandia.
4AD (2012)
By BARRY THOMPSON | February 03, 2012

Grimes | Visions

The debut record from Grimes, an alias of the Montreal-based Boucher, kicks off the peculiarity parade by presenting song titles steeped in cutesy affectation.
Arbutus (2012)
By REYAN ALI | February 03, 2012

Dr. Dog | Be the Void

With Be the Void , their sonically raw sixth album, these Philly psych-pop oddballs have pulled a fussy, self-conscious about-face, indulging in their weirdest ideas in years.
Anti- (2012)
By RYAN REED | February 03, 2012

Off the record: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour | Out of Frequency

Getting a boost with songs from their 2009 debut, Fruit , featured in iPod and Heineken ads, and getting handpicked as concert openers by a then-still-functioning Amy Winehouse in their native Copenhagen, the Asteroids Galaxy Tour rode a lucky streak o
BMG Rights (2012)
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | February 03, 2012

Helios Early Opera's Charpentier; plus, the BSO's Mendelssohn Lobgesang

There's a new group in town doing Baroque opera — not an easy ambition.
Hello, Helios!
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | February 03, 2012

Juan Deuce and Falside get down to work as The Mechanics

The stars have aligned and the Rap Gods must be smiling down at Juan Deuce and Falside.
Impossible to ignore
By CHRIS CONTI | February 03, 2012

Kumquat Jam

Dinner date gone awry.
Hoopleville
By DAVID KISH | February 03, 2012

Must-see music, comedy, and more

Welcome back! The holiday break has you reenergized and ready to hit the books, but first things first. Break out a fresh No.2 and pencil in some fun.
Where the fun is!
By CHRIS CONTI | January 27, 2012

Brite Futures | Dark Past

A few years ago, the cutesy teens in Natalie Portman's Shaved Head slid out of Seattle on the hot pink shoulders of robo-bounce kinda-hit "Me + Ur Daughter" and the cheap intrigue of a ridiculous moniker.
Turnout (2011)
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | January 27, 2012

A young jazz master looks to a personal hero

Jason Moran — 37-year-old MacArthur Fellow and New England Conservatory teacher — epitomizes what's best about the current jazz scene: a composer and pianist who can — and does — draw on all eras.
Moran's Monk
By JON GARELICK | January 27, 2012

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