If It's Too Loud...

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...

Photo by Pooneh Ghana Austin's Porcelain recently released a new 7" that is going to thrill fans of noise rock. "Torch" is going to remind a lot of people of Sonic Youth, especially with some of the guitar tunings going on. It's a three minute burst of a song that starts off with feedback before taking off. The song is insanely punk and drives straight through the listener, leaving pure chaos in its wake. It takes Daydream Nation era Sonic Youth and makes it a little more traditionally punk, complete with gang vocals and more relentless drums. "Torch" takes everything we loved about indie and alt-rock in the late 80's and early 90's and updates it for the modern day. Guitarist/vocalist Steve Pike says of his band's latest single: “Very much a song of anger and frustration surrounding the genocide in Gaza.  I wrote it after feeling numb to the bombardment of images being shared, and the sheer loss of life being carried out and feeling helples...