Music

Wicked Halloween- Day Two

An enormous spider was the first thing to greet concert-goers at Tsongas Arena. On either side of the stage sat enormous skulls. Hermitude, an Australian electronic duo, filled the massive arena with sounds,the...

What a Time to Be Alive: The Blast Review

“Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman, them boys up to something…” With the drop of their collaborative effort, What a Time To Be Alive (WATTBA), Drake and Future attempt to capitalize on the recent successes of their res...

Passion Pit Comes to the Lawn on D

The full-on sonic sugar-rush that was this year’s Kindred came as a bit of a surprise to most Passion Pit devotees – after all, the euphoric highs of the band’s last two albums were laced with undercurrents of ...

Fever the Ghost Releases New Single

By just listening to Fever the Ghost’s EP, it’s easy to hear the sounds that define the group. This psych-pop band has been working hard on their first LP, Zirconium Meconium, set to release at the end of Septe...

Casper Indrizzo: The Blast Interview

In the last two years, Fever the Ghost has grown from a small recording project to a full fledged band gearing up for the September release of their new LP Zirconium Meconium. The psychedelic-pop group has work...

P. Goods: Hip-hop from the Perspective of Life

“I don’t speak for the streets,” says New England-based musician P. Goods, clearing a hurdle he believes has partly confined hip-hop and rap artists for decades. “I speak for human beings, and I speak from a pe...

Nancy Love: The Blast Interview

Nancy Love has loved to sing since she was a child. Now, the Canadian pop artist has launched a musical career and hopes to bring her upbeat pop music to audiences around the world. Blast chatted with the young...

Going Commando with NKOTB

Last week saw the TD Garden hosting back-to-back 90s throwback nights, with New Kids on the Block and special guests Nelly and TLC. If you’d like to revisit the scene, picture thousands of 30-something women sc...

Róisín Murphy and the Element of Surprise

Róisín Murphy revels in being unpredictable. Her twenty-year career has been largely directed by her own instincts, resulting in a catalogue that is both innovative and seemingly effortless. Murphy’s first v...

Andrew Tufano: The Blast Interview

  “I’m tired of this every-man-for-himself mentality,” musician Andrew Tufano, 20, declares in his song “Every Man For Himself” off of his new record "Fireworks in Autumn". As tired as Tufano may be of ...

Cupid: The Blast Interview

Bryson Bernard, better known as R&B singer Cupid, had a hit single with 2007's "Cupid Shuffle," which gained recognition as a popular dance tune. Now on tour, he continues to bring his feel-good energy to e...

Empires Come to Brighton

Running up on stage just in time, Sean Van Vleet of Empires jumps into the first song of the band’s most recent, Orphan.“Silverfire” grabs the attention of some patrons previously occupied by the pool tables in...

Empires: High Energy, Fine-tuned

The best way to examine the talent of Empires is to discuss their growth in both sound and process. This group has been building their success steadily over the past few years, and now, a few months after the r...