Believe it or not, Western Massachusetts has quite the music history when it comes to kick-ass alternative rock. You have Dinosaur Jr. hailing from Amherst along with ex-Sonic Youth punk rock power couple Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon who have lived there for nearly a decade. Miracle Legion and Polaris front man Mark Mulcahy call […]
When two musical entities get together to make an album, you never really know what to expect. It could be like that load of crap Metallica & Lou Reed put out a few years ago — and it’s still a shame it’s the last release with Lou’s name on it — or it could be […]
I’ve fallen in love with the music that has been coming out of Scotland for the past few years, as odd as it may seem. Sure, you’ve got rock groups like Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis, The Vaselines and Teenage Fanclub that have been continuously putting out awesome music. Even those identical folk twins in The […]
It can be a gamble when a band tweaks their sound, especially when everything they’ve done beforehand is simply brilliant. Enter Boston’s Mean Creek, starting out with multidimensional bluesy Bruce Springsteen meets The Replacements alternative rock and progressing into an angsty, emphatic punk monster. Mean Creek keeps it highly amplified from the first track to […]