Friday night, before a packed house at the Echo, three clean-cut, clearly inebriated members of Harlem took the stage. Swaying slightly, the boys from Austin, TX launched into some of the most by-the-book, tasteful garage rock you can get. All of the elements were there in equal proportion: frantic, fevered......
Last night Montreal's own Stars played a second sold-out night at the Troubadour and they owned the entire evening -- almost literally. With no opener to distract, main man Torquil Campbell DJ-ed under the moniker Dead Child Star for the first hour. Seated up front, master of his domain, Campbell......
The two men billed at the Bootleg Theater last night could not be more different. Rocco DeLuca's blues set contrasted sharply to Active Child's harp-filled synth pop. It was almost as if a psych grad student was revealing the results of a test that he had being conducting. The question......
A small audience waited expectantly in the warm gloom of the Largo at the Coronet for the Andrew Bird Variety Hour to begin. The lovely thing about the Largo is that one can never be certain what's going to happen. Every night is different, anything can happen, and it's never......
