Just before the kickoff of the Common Cents music festival on Oct. 3, I had the pleasure of interviewing headliner Faye Webster in the corner of a Ryder Hall classroom. With her team and band jovially playing Hangman in the background almost the full duration of our interview, Faye was in great spirits and eager […]
Alex G God Save The Animals Domino • September 23, 2022 In one far-flung corner of YouTube’s dark and winding databases, there lies a video of a teenage boy playing an original song titled “BE KIND” on guitar. His pitched, sorrowful voice echoes through the dusty staircase he hunches upon, his eyes covered by his […]
Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia Partisan · April 22, 2022 In 2019, Grian Chatten shouted “My childhood was small / But I’m gonna be big,” on the first song of Fontaines D.C’s debut album, Dogrel. A tongue-in-cheek reference to both the disingenuity of many modern punk artists in their attempts to capitalize off of counterculture, and […]
Car Seat Headrest March 26, 2022 at House of Blues […]
Yard Act The Overload Island/Zen F.C. · January 21, 2022 […]
Parquet Courts Sympathy for Life Rough Trade · October 22, 2021 Parquet Courts had a lot to live up to following their 2018 release Wide Awake!, which deftly wove together coarse vocals, funky basslines, fast guitars, and incredibly socially conscious lyrics to achieve a true indie rock/art punk triumph. With Sympathy for Life, they fell […]
Indigo De Souza September 26, 2021 at Brighton Music Hall Packed with shimmering vape clouds, thick leather jackets, and an eclectic mishmash of piercings in every location known to man, the line to get into the Indigo De Souza concert at Brighton Music Hall was made up of the most concentrated collection of Doc Martens […]
