There was no phone in sight at the Lincoln Theatre, where amber lights cast a warm, intimate glow. Watching John Andrews & The Yawns and Alice Phoebe Lou perform, I felt like I’d been let into the inner workings of their hearts. John Andrews took the stage in a baseball cap and beat-up Converse, casually admitting he’d been watching Danny DeVito Batman clips backstage. His voice was deeply comforting, accompanied only by an acoustic guitar and electric piano he alternated bet

On Tuesday, audiences got to play house with Perfume Genius. Emerging from stage right, project leader Mike Hadreas and husband and collaborator Alan Wyffels seemed to forget the audience in front of them

It’s been five years since my first LANY show, but five years does nothing to the way a LANY concert feels as the summer air starts to settle in.

This story starts with Storey Littleton. She has both hands occupied tuning her guitar to the different keys of each song, and in the midst of her plucking, I am encapsulated by her dress. A dress that mirrors the sun hitting the stained glass of Dahlgren Chapel with each sway to the beat of the melody and a statement piece I would definitely consider an “insane find” at the local thrift.

If you can count on any artist to hype up a crowd with something as simple as the spinning cat meme or spelling out his own name, it would be bbno$.

There’s really no way to follow up an album like Brat.

This Moby-Dick-inspired, hauntingly beautiful, and more musically expansive look into Duckart’s psyche is a sullen epic that further emphasizes the simple beauty of Searows’ songwriting.

In 2023, Mandy, Indiana crash landed onto the music scene with “Pinking Shears:” French poetry, cymbals, toms, and synths echoed like they were recorded in a cave–because they were.

“I am not cool,” Peter McPoland told the Tuesday night crowd at the 9:30 Club, most of whom kept their puffers on in the surprisingly chilly venue. There were a couple tentative whoops from the crowd. McPoland smiled and lifted one hand. “Come on, cheer!”

A couple decked out in fishnets, a spunky older woman with a pixie cut, and a pair of teenagers with tails walk into a music venue. This may sound like the setup for a joke, but it’s really just a fair representation of the crowd at last Friday night’s 2000s Rave at The Atlantis.