Music

Kiran Koshy designed this week’s featured poster. A Google search of the artist’s name tuns up advertising Koshy has worked on for the Richards Group, including this great ad series for Asel Art Supply. The poster, on the same brown-paper background as that Asel campaign, advertises Friday night’s Eastwood, Elkhart…

After a month-long experiment that seemed to work out well for all parties involved, Vickery Park appears to be keeping its hat in the live music venue ring: Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights will play a free show at the well-regarded drinkin’ hole at 11 10 o’clock tonight. Denton’s…

Sometimes I just hate promoters. A couple of months back, I was sent the new album by Tommy Keene, In the Late Bright. The album is great of course, like almost all of the shimmering power pop Keene has released over the past 25 years. Anyhow, I asked the promo…

Metalheads looking for enough hair windmills—a circular type of headbanging that, um, is exactly what it sounds like—to give Don Quixote a coronary will find their Valhalla at the Granada on Thursday as Viking-obsessed Swedes Amon Amarth roll through town. Over the band’s seven-album career, its stubborn resistance to change…

Ask anyone from Echo Park to Williamsburg. They’ll tell you irony is a dead scene. Which is why Electric Six is only partially insincere. Bouncing between Tom Jones-y suaveness to a preening falsetto, singer Dick Valentine works himself into a perpetual lather as he croons about sundry oddball shit. The…

Co-headlining tours are meant to bring together the best of a particular genre into one night of greatness. Fittingly, that’s the case on this bill, which puts Ladytron and The Faint, two of the biggest names in underground electro, on the same stage for one night. The Faint, much like its…

So here’s the deal. Old Neil had his 1959 Lincoln Continental re-jiggered so it could run on some sort of bio-hydro-electric propulsion system, and then he wrote an album about it! Go ahead and consider Fork in the Road a concept work along the lines of Trans, and expect it…

Arlington’s Jessie Frye is a determined young singer-songwriter who (thankfully) doesn’t let her classical training get in the way of her pop smarts. The Delve EP is Frye’s debut recording, and its six songs bounce gracefully from cabaret-influenced rock to folk to something resembling alt-country. The only common denominator here,…

Kevin Shields, frontman of the critically beloved dreamy noise-pop band My Bloody Valentine, sees his band’s recent return to active status a bit differently than those of us on the outside. Then again, considering his vague and occasionally contradictory statements about the band, it’s hard to say just how he…

The first line of the first single off the new album by Mark Olson and Gary Louris begins mid-sentence, as if picking up partway through a story we should already know. “And then came disappointment,” Olson and Louris sing in unison on “Turn Your Pretty Name Around,” immediately pulling the…

Watching Chris Finley ready his gear before performing a gig as Kashioboy is like watching someone preparing for an ’80s computer techie’s yard sale. At a recent fund-raiser for The Bee’s Fifth artists’ collective, held at Matthew Gray’s house (aka Bee’s Manor), Finley spent nearly 20 minutes connecting several different…

“Long Way to Lubbock,” the opening cut on this impressive debut, showcases the singing and songwriting acumen of Red Leg frontman Richard Davis. Dense and poignant, “Lubbock” is just one of the nine gems collected on Rattlesnake Inn, making it one of the surprise local releases of the year. Hell,…

Jovial Baltimore titan Dan Deacon has made his name with a glowing green skull, a ratty Fred Flintstone T-shirt and a joyous one-man electronic arsenal combining pulverizing volume, deft rhythmic complexity and childlike elation—like Steve Reich scoring Looney Tunes. His daffy and thunderous 2007 breakthrough, the great-for-parties/terrible-for-hangovers Spiderman of the…

There’s no denying the convenience of iTunes or even Amazon’s online store. Or, for that matter, torrents and music blogs (at least when it comes to the pirates among us). The iTunes Store launched in April 2003—seems longer, no?—and lest there be any deluded observers out there doubting the long-term…

If you’re done with your taxes (unlike, say, me) there are a couple of shows worth venturing out for this deadline Wednesday…Local singer/songwriter Eric Neal headlines a nice local bill at Dada’s Listening Room. Back in August, Pete did a nice post on Neal’s Birthday Bash, also at Dada. But…