It’s hard not to get excited when you can actually hear an artist evolve over the course of their career or even better when it’s over a series of songs released within a fairly short amount of time. Which is the case when talking about New England’s own Otto Kinzel [...]
Fresh off a retread of Karma To Burn’s storied/illustrious discography and everything I hear after seems to remind me of them. Like Louisiana’s Forming The Void who are miles beyond anything that instrumental trio concocted (Not a knock on K2B at all, they’re just living in a Desert Rawk realm [...]
Electro is the perfect comfort food for whatever ails ya. Stuck indoors? Missing the night life? Feeling lonely? Well, let the warm blanket of properly produced Electro envelope you so you can dance your cares away from the comfort of your own home. And might I suggest the shimmering ecstasy [...]
B-sides and remix collections can be a mixed bag. On the one hand you get records that stand on their own as a completed piece of collected music (Killers’ Sawdust comes to mind) while with others it seems like your favorite band is half assing it to fulfill some contract [...]
If Alice In Chains recorded Facelift today it might sound like the modern Rawk classic that is The Balance of Nature Shifted by Melbourne’s Foot. Tapping into the pure, unfiltered and unfettered by outside money sound that Grunge started as, the latest from Foot is terrifically tantalizing and a must [...]
Jokes! is back and for our belated latest column we’re focusing on some local laughs from Rob Crean and his new album, Sadly Sackerton. A staple of the Boston comedy scene for years, Crean could usually be found hosting The Gas over at Great Scott back in the day when [...]