live music reviews

Thermals guitarist and vocalist Hutch Harris has described the Portland trio’s sixth album Desperate Ground (released April 16, 2013 on Saddle Creek Records), as a

Maps & Atlases is a band that debuted as a schizophrenic math-rock group, but has slowly been trying to marry their tapping guitars with the

The hands on the clock hanging on the wall next to the kitchen fridge were taking two steps back for every step forward. The ticks

The annual World Ski & Snowboard Festival (April 12 to 21, 2013) was always something that I’d wanted to check out, especially for the ski

I walk into the Media Club, and it’s nearly pitch black, save for the lighted bar and a few candles surrounding a MacBook on stage.

Seeing the chandeliered interior of the Orpheum Theatre fill its seats with hoodie-clad, tattooed under-30s on Wednesday night was a strange sight indeed. The sheer

“Faith in your partner, your fellow men, your friends, is very important, because without it there’s no mutual component to your relationship, and relationships are

Since his sophomore album Total Loss was released last September, Tom Krell has solidified his spot as one of music’s emerging artists to watch. Krell,

The near sell-out crowd was a frothy-throated bunch, eager for a liftoff to their weekend. Billy Bragg must have felt that vibe flitting through the

Opener Lou Canon is an elementary school teacher and singer-songwriter from Toronto that happens to be Hayden’s sister-in-law. He pulled her name for a family

The Railway Club is one of those places that I’d always heard about but never been, until I saw Kat Bastow and Marsha play there