It’s been a long, winding road for Those Manic Seas but after more than seven years the band is set to release their first full length LP, Telegenic. “This band and evolved and changed a lot,” said Daniel Medley, the drummer and manager for the band. Medley has since...
The best inter/national music acts we discovered at MACROCK 2017
We spent an alternately chilly/beautiful/drunk weekend in Harrisonburg earlier this month and saw some noteworthy jams as part of MACROCK 2017. The annual festival that specializes in lesser-know but still noteworthy acts doubled down on the "lesser known" side which...
New York duo Diet Cig brings their empowering new sound to Gallery5 tonight
Musicians need reassurance too, even those as dazzling, empowering, and forceful as New York duo Diet Cig. You can have all the buzz in the world and a fanbase that grows by the hour, but the confidence has to be there no matter how you get it. Sometimes, it comes...
The collective mind of Gogol Bordello may cause global whiplash – a review of their Jefferson Theatre show
A Gogol Bordello show is an all-consuming force. The air is charged; a nearly violent happiness (ala Bjork) travels out from the stage and infects the crowd. It is as joyous and wild as a megachurch taken over by a gang of tongue-and-cheek pirates, and this past...
The Decemberists find poetic silver lining in bleak times during sold-out performance at The National
After playing two new, comically nihilistic “state of the union” songs in the middle of their set, Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy joked. “It’s usually closer to the end of our show that the realization we’re all going to die sets in.” However, the mood at the...
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