Online News — Plan A: Upcoming Shows
The Kills at House of Blues January 26
The Kills’ sexed-up strut rock is the kind that sounds perfect throbbing from behind a motel room door, so it’s befitting that it’s how they got their start. Alison “VV” […]
Korpiklaani at the Hangar December 11
The “Louhen Yhdeksäs Polka” begins with an almost familiar (in these parts, anyway) acrobatic accordion line that quickly gets battered by thundering drum rolls and detonations from a hopelessly distorted […]
Sondre Lerche at One Eyed Jacks November 13
We all, presumably, like songs. We like there to be dedicated, sensitive souls to write them and then to sing them, yet, there is something about the term “singer/songwriter” that […]
Wye Oak at Tipitina’s September 16
Wye Oak, the Baltimore indie rock duo named for a 460-year old tree in their home state of Maryland, give off an appropriate balance of rooted strength and breezy pliability. […]
Gillian Welch at Tipitina’s, August 11
Gillian Welch is the truest kind of cool, the kind that lingers in the background letting the hotshots and attention hogs perform their circus acts and press junkets and media […]
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at the Parish at House of Blues July 27
We may be at the point where we can stop referring to Jason Isbell as a former member of Drive-By Truckers. Here We Rest, his third studio album as a […]
Guitar Wolf at Siberia, June 6
The only time I thought I was in the presence of superheroes was in the late ’90s at a Guitar Wolf show. The trio appeared suddenly on stage with a […]
Junip at Republic, May 12
“Folktronica” sounds like the worst idea on paper and yet is one of the best in reality. It is a bending of the infinite entrainment engine of electronic music toward […]
Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour
Under the ragged flag of the Elephant 6 Recording Company, some of the most enduring and endearing music of the 1990s was crafted by Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in […]
Les Pêcheurs de Perles “The Pearl Fishers”
Go see Bizet’s “other opera” just to hear the duet “Au fond du temple saint.” Two men (a tenor and a baritone) renew their friendship, even though they have both […]
