Pixies Parade with Cats and Mice
With a cool wind blowing in off the Long Island Sound, the Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, CT, witnessed a diverse trio of bands…
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The Walkmen Return
To accompany the announcement of their original run of shows in NYC, Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser wrote: “Back in 2013, an unnamed Walkmen band…
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Parquet Courts Dunk on Western Mass
Early this month, a mere 15 or so miles north of the Basketball Hall of Fame, another kind of parquet courts were on display….
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Tropical Fuck Storm: Deep States
In 1965, George Stevens’ epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told depicted the story of Jesus Christ to the acclaim of five Academy Award…
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Lucy Dacus, Japanese Breakfast help kickoff Bright Eyes Tour 2021
Just prior to the COVID prompted shutdown in the spring of 2020, Yale’s Connecticut Tennis Center had been announced to reopen that summer as…
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Osees: Protean Threat
Upon first listen of the new record by prolific polyonymous psych outfit fronted by John Dwyer, I wondered if I had forgotten to switch…
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Deerhoof: Future Teenage Cave Artists
Two-thousand and nineteen marked Deerhoof’s 25th year anniversary, an impressive milestone for a marriage nevermind a band. While no new albums were announced last…
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Thurston Moore Group Traverse the Gateway
On a snowy New England evening Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine), James Sedwards (Nøught), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), and Jon…
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IDLES RESIST AT THE ROYALE
Ok. You love, us. You don’t love us. I’ll explain, if you’ll allow me to shouting lady. You think you love us but it’s…
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in the FUTURE we’ll all be living on ISLANDS
Riffing on a joke told by lead singer and guitarist Kuki Kooks of opening act The Fiction Kids, I was struck by the name…
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