Under Orders – Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Photo and design credit: Pearl Lung. Boston and Punk-Rock are relatively synonymous and thats a very good thing because underground scenes are unambiguously important as a form of cultural expression, as they often operate outside the limits imposed from above. Why am I beginning the...
Bent Knee – Boston, Massachusetts, USA. I first came across Bent Knee on Amps For Equality‘s To Chechnya With Love – Vol 1 charity compilation – Click Here. The included track, ‘Queen of the Conquest’, immediately made an impact on me with it’s strong vocal hook, amid a selection of other tracks...
Boston – Massachusetts – USA. This was a show that had me on the edge of my cramped polyester seat riding the T (Boston’s subway system) back to my side of town to link up with a handful of very talented musicians, for a show that had been the talk...
Vundabar – Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Photo credit by Caitlin McCann Boston three-piece, Vundabar, are (in their own words) a ‘Sludgy Jangle Pop‘ band – and what are you supposed to take from that? It could be that The Smiths fell into a tar pit? (Maybe). This young Bostonian trio’s second album Gawk is catchy...
Boston, Massachusetts, USA. From my first house show in Boston. The smell of stale beer and the creek of decades old wood might have you think that you’re in some matter of a party at your university, but the feedback coming from the basement and the guy in the Leftöver...
The David J Edgar Hoovers – Bristol, England, United Kingdom. The David J Edgar Hoovers formed in Bristol in 2012. Not only did the band survive the end of the world, that we all know was prophesied for that fateful year but as a result, pieced a collection of audio...