“Hi, we’re Silversun Pickups,” Julian Casablancas told the almost-full house at Spaceland on Monday night. Chuckles all around. Spaceland had billed the opener for this month’s residents the Happy Hollows as “secret guests,” and the morning line favored an appearance by the Silver Lake heroes, since they’d just gotten back in town from a long […]
Even ravaged as they have been by the effects of a cold, Little Joy — the six-piece co-founded by Fabrizio Moretti of the Strokes — showed a packed house at the Troubadour on Sunday a good time. Which, I suspect, tells you more about the packed house at the Troubadour than it does the music […]
David Newton, guitarist in the British quartet the Mighty Lemon Drops (1986-92) and now a local producer, loves to dust off his old 7-inches. His turn as one of the guest DJs at Sunday’s Part Time Punks Festival at the Echo and Echoplex gave him to spin a few tracks from some of the great […]
