Live Shows: TRAITRS, Dead Leaf Echo, and Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight, The Middle East, Cambridge, MA 11/9/24
Dark Spring puts on a festival in the Boston area every spring, featuring dark post-punk bands playing all together. This weekend they put on a show at The Middle East Upstairs featuring TRAITRS, Dead Leaf Echo, and Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight. All three bands definitely fit the dark and goth category, but all three were just diverse enough to keep the evening interesting. Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight opened the show. The local heroes were the most straight up rock band of the night. They're dark tinged with goth elements, but still a fairly straightforward rock band. Opening with their brand new and excellent single "Heroes Shouldn't Be Villains," the Boston band plowed through their set with an obvious excitement to be playing the show. Fans that were there for TRAITRS and Dead Leaf Echo may have been confused by their style, but they were quickly won over by a set of epic dark rock music. Plus, who doesn't want catchy songs with some power pop ...
