It’s only been a year and a half since Melvins’ last release and tour for Pinkus Abortion Technician (which featured a second bassist, the Butthole Surfers’ Jeff Pinkus), yet singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne, drummer Dale Crover, and bassist Steve McDonald are already back at it. This time around the seasoned road warriors are bringing McDonald’s childhood…
Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard made its Connecticut debut recently performing an aggressive, yet wildly diverse set at New Haven’s College Street Music Hall. The band is known for its chameleon-esque shape-shifting as a psychedelic rock outfit that smoothly diverges into prog rock, psychedelic pop, indie rock, and garage rock on whims. The…
When a band of hungry twenty-somethings comes off a ferocious and critically-acclaimed debut, the urgency of delivering a satisfying sophomore follow-up may seem daunting. Luckily for Charly Bliss—comprised of lead singer Eva Hendricks, her brother and drummer Sam Hendricks, guitarist Spencer Fox, and bassist Dan Shure—they’ve expanded their musical wheelhouse by looking inward and leaning…
On the song “Rollercoasters,” Tank and the Bangas frontwoman Tarriona “Tank” Ball compares riding a rollercoaster to facing one’s fears, the void of having never been in love, of “feeling your heart roam through your body.” She sings, “There are nothing but tears, freedom, and fear in your right hand now, time to throw it…
There’s something to be said for a band that’s taken control of its own fate. Philadelphia’s Sheer Mag reached cult status before they were signed becoming hometown heroes thanks to their no-frills American rock ‘n roll and DIY approach. At a recent gig in Hamden, Connecticut’s Space Ballroom, the band brought its scrappy, scuzzy tunes…
When The Melvins come to town, they come to annihilate. They bring with them heaps of hair, grinding, sludgy noise, and this time around, not one, but two bassists. At a Melvins show, faces will be melted. On tour for their latest album, last month’s Pinkus Abortion Technician (Ipecac), Melvins staples, singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover, brought…
“This is the weirdest night of my life,” said Nicole Atkins, mid-song, as two nearly six foot tall males pranced ballerina style in front of the stage. As Atkins nailed the alternating croons and belts of her emotional powerhouse “A Little Crazy,” the bearded men sashayed back and forth, legs extended, arms reaching toward the sky,…
For better or for worse, I’ve never been an earplugs-at-concerts kind of guy, so when (not “if”) I eventually lose part of my hearing when I’m older, surely I’ll have METZ to blame/thank in part. Canadian punks and noise rockers METZ made a lot of noise up on The Outer Space Ballroom’s stage…and I mean a…
Two songs into her set at Hamden, Connecticut’s The Outer Space, the LA-based Aussie Betty Who is choked up and crying on stage. It’s the opening night of her Party in the Valley tour, celebrating her recently released sophomore record, The Valley, and despite the irony of just having performed a new song called “You Can…
I had so many problems with Chairlift’s set last week at The Space in Hamden, Conn. that I don’t even know where to begin. The time in between the opener and the Brooklyn-based synthpop headliners was longer than the band’s actual set (OK, let’s start there). They kept us waiting for a little over an…