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Phoenix Cover Story, February 25, 2010 Issue: I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but dance nights are absolutely mobbing our clubs and bars. Non-stop four-on-the-floor beats, DJs with stickers all over their laptops, hordes throwing hands up for party pics — it’s enough to make any long-time Boston codger step outside, pout, and ponder his […]
April 22, 2010
“I’m living the most local life I’ve ever lived right now in Dorchester,” says Chris Hislop, bespectacled guitarist in the long-running Boston band Piles. “Walking to work in the morning, walking home. I love it.” We’re sitting in a booth at the Middle East and tracing the course of music worship from big — Sonic […]
April 22, 2010
When I first saw the gooey-inked hand-screened sleeve of the Golden Girls’ recent Ultimate Freedom EP, not only did I get that stirring, satisfying feeling that it had come straight from unsound minds confined to some DIY basement workshop, I also sort of got the creeps. But I think that’s only because they’re from Worcester. […]
April 22, 2010
I’ve never been to a disco band’s practice space, but I figured it would involve lots of velvet, mirrors, and other visions borrowed from the foggy-lens films they used to show at roller rinks. Was that naive of me? Stepping into Mystery Roar’s industrial Charlestown basement space, I was greeted with the following disclaimer: “Sorry […]
April 22, 2010
“When I’m frustrated, I see a therapist,” Owen Pallett said. “I don’t write a song about it.” There’s a troubled narrator named Lewis at the center of Pallet’s orchestral pop concept record, “Heartland.” But don’t equate the narrator’s problems with this 30-year-old composer, violinist and singer’s personal life. “I enjoy the submissive nature of letting […]
April 6, 2010
Fake TV news reports about religious cults flashing on TVs. Band members taking wine-and-cheese breaks. A wayward Christian-radio host popping up on a movie screen between shots of animated mouths grafted onto animal orifices. Just part of a night with Puscifer, the multimedia hodgepodge from Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan that rolled into the Berklee […]
April 6, 2010
As fans of “The Wire” know, there are few places in the U.S. less dreamy than Baltimore. But the city has given us dream-pop duo Beach House, whose slow-moving songs of love and loss play like soundtracks to lost fantasy flicks. “You make what you want out of being here,” French-born vocalist Victoria Legrand said […]
Writing Portfolio of Matt Parish 
April 22, 2010
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