The Boston stop for Badflower’s 2024 No Place Like Home tour was The House of Blues on venerable Lansdowne Street. Long home runs from adjacent Fenway Park sometimes land on Lansdowne. Little did I know that Pearl Jam was playing at Fenway Park the same night. The neighborhood was practically impassable. I was thrilled to be going to the Badflower concert. I would rather see a band that speaks to the current zeitgeist than a […]
SLOTHRUST/WEAKENED FRIENDS – LIVE AT THE SINCLAIR
Less than two weeks since the last sold-out show I attended at The Sinclair – a venerable live music club a stone’s throw from Cambridge’s Harvard Yard – I found myself returning for the “sludgy” guitar-driven rock of Slothrust. This is a show I had been anticipating since I saw that they were making the final stop of their Of Course You Do 10 Year Anniversary tour on home turf. I had immersed myself in […]