If It's Too Loud...

Once again, Something in the Way took over Roadrunner in Boston for two days of killer live music. Twelve bands took over two stages on Sunday, with a surprisingly diverse line up of shoegaze, alt-country, hardcore, emo, slowcore, and more. For all the people that complain about people being on their phones for entire shows, they need to check out Something in the Way, which saw an audience mostly made up of teens and twentysomethings moshing, stage diving, and crowd surfing for hours. It's a much needed relief from the tail end of winter, and the freezing cold. Here were our highlights of Sunday. Glixen Phoenix's Glixen opened up the show and were the perfect way to ease the crowd into a day of mostly heavy music. Taking the stage at 1:30 pm, their version of heavy shoegaze got the crowd ready without being too heavy as we got prepared for nine hours of music. I've been praising Glixen for a while now, and their live show simply can't be beat. Drummer Keire Johnson sti...

Sometimes a triple bill is just perfectly put together. The best plan is to find three bands who are similar enough to fit together, but different enough to keep things interesting. Plus, it helps when I've been dying to see all three bands but haven't been able to yet. That was the case Monday night at The Sinclair with Pelican, Porcelain, and Glacier, three bands I've been wanting to see for various amounts of time. I've been a fan of Pelican since 2001's Untitled , but, for whatever reason, I had never seen them until Monday night. The post-metal band was playing in Boston for the first time in six years, and they released a monster of a set upon the crowd. It's kind of mind-blowing that a band can play instrumental tracks for well over an hour while keeping their audience rapt, but that is the power of Pelican. The start of their set focused on the recently released Flickering Resonance , but they played songs from their entire career to the audience's d...