All Authors >

MATT PARISH

Latest Articles

Interview: Talking with Mission of Burma's Roger Miller

Reformation
This weekend (January 20-21) brings a two-night stand at Brighton Music Hall for post-punk godfathers Mission of Burma, who have somehow morphed into a band that's equal parts internationally renowned throwbacks and prolific local underdogs.

By: MATT PARISH | January 18, 2012

Mission of Burma's sonic fury still burns

Evolver
It already seems like ages ago when Mission of Burma announced their reunion.

By: MATT PARISH | January 18, 2012

Trying to find now

William Gibson's randomized experience
William Gibson — the writer who famously coined the term "cyberpunk" and whose classic tech-punk novels like Neuromancer and The Difference Engine helped spawn a couple generations' worth of bleak, busted fantasies — is now on tour promoting his first collection of nonfiction.

By: MATT PARISH | January 04, 2012

Have Bill Simmons and Grantland made it cool for geeks to like sports?

Game changer
"The paper quickly began its operations, grabbing all of the talent money could buy."

By: MATT PARISH | December 14, 2011

Dengue Fever add eccentricity to psych pop

Holidays in Cambodia
For all the kitsch and B-movie flair of Dengue Fever, there are still a few aspects of their obsession with Cambodian pop that they haven't put on record.

By: MATT PARISH | June 01, 2011

Shinji Masuko | Woven Music

Brah/Jagjaguwar (2011)
It's tempting to point to the recent tsunami in Japan as having a heavy cosmic connection with Shinji Masuko's first solo record, a full-immersion blackout of churning, oceanic drones and melodic eddies.

By: MATT PARISH | May 06, 2011

O'Death embark on another folk-punk chapter

Musical afterlife
It must be a relief to realize that when you hit the stage, people know what they're going to get. O'Death have spent the past several years banging out a reputation as grizzled folk punks who run their sets like moonshine raids.

By: MATT PARISH | April 12, 2011

Sebadoh return to the scene they helped invent

Endless road
Some things just don't go as planned, though you can't say that would surprise you if you've been listening to Lou Barlow's music for any fraction of the past 25 years.

By: MATT PARISH | March 24, 2011

Lou Barlow talks the talk

The Sebadoh frontman on life, love, and J.
He may have been born in Dayton, Ohio and settled down in Los Angeles, but for a lot of us, Lou Barlow will always be a Western Mass kid.

By: MATT PARISH | March 24, 2011

After 12 blurry years, the Konks say farewell

Closing the garage
At the end of the day, by what unit can one measure the career of a band like the Konks? Records? Few and far between. Radio play? Not a whole lot. Ticket sales? Never mind.

By: MATT PARISH | January 26, 2011

Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker display their indie artifacts

Antiques roadshow
It was on a whim roughly 25 years ago that a young David Lowery called up a friend at SST Records to see how SST had been promoting records that year. "He just said, 'Hey, we've been sending a lot of our stuff to college radio stations, and they seem to be playing them a lot.' I mean, this is literally like how this all started."

By: MATT PARISH | January 11, 2011