Battles brought their new lineup to Brighton Music Hall on Tuesday night in the supergroup’s first North American show in nearly three years. Delivering a set approaching an hour and a half, the three-piece...

“I want to bottle you up and pour you on my pancakes you’re so sweet.” This is how Tunde Adebimpe described the crowd at TV on The Radio’s first Boston show at The Middle East some years ago. The...

Mondays are often the most difficult night to get a big turnout at a show, much less to get people moving. But Hawaiian band The Green has never really had much of a problem with either. Having only formed...

We know, you’re sick of it. The constant emails, announcements and showcase lineups that made you vacillate constantly between drooling jealousy and bewildered confusion as to how it could all be happening...

The first time I saw the Cold War Kids they were bathed in California sunshine drinking Sierra Nevada. It was a few months after the band had released their raw and soulful debut Robbers and Cowards (Downtown...

What do you get when you have a duo-turned-trio outfitted with a banjo, accordion, guitar, light-up drums and an iPod connected to an amplifier? The pop-tastic Seedy Seeds, a Cincinnati-based band who...

On March 3 Deer Tick played the Paradise between opener Dawes (gimmicky country rock) and headliner Middle Brother (which is actually just a sloppy combination of Dawes, Deer Tick and another band, Delta...

Growing up, I was under the impression that my dad only liked a few things: Garrison Keillor, The Blues Brothers and Taj Mahal. These facts narrowed the Christmas list down quite a bit, prompting me to...

There’s a brotherly love that has nothing to do with Philadelphia embedded in most music scenes, and there isn’t a scene around that embodies that more than the grooves that are flowing out of New...

Gentlemen Hall’s Sunday night show downstairs at The Middle East was smoking hot, literally. Three songs into their nine-song set, the bass started smoking. Bassist Rory Given and his bandmates handled...

It had been 364 days since Parliament-Funkadelic had last taken the stage at Boston’s House of Blues, and 252 sad days since the death of guitarist, bandleader and notorious diaper man Garry “Starchild”...

Dr. Dog breezed into town last weekend to play back-to-back nights at the Paradise Rock Club, an annual tradition that has developed a large and loyal fan base in Boston. For the past two years, these...