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Tokyo Police Club

[ROCK] Released in October, Tokyo Police Club’s fourth studio album, TPC, is receiving a lot of attention from critics and fans. The Canadian band’s album, their fourth, has been nominated for a Juno award for Alternative Album of the Year. To the delight of fans, the band has made a sort of return to their roots on this record with jangly guitars taking the place of synthesizers and more oomph than pop. Catch Tokyo Police Club at the Town Ballroom on Saturday, March 23 with support from Dizzy.

The Interrupters

[SKA] The intersection of ska, punk and pop remains alive and well in this L.A. based quartet featuring three brothers (Kevin, Justin and Jesse Bivona) and singer/songwriter Aimee Allen, known here as ‘Aimee Interrupter.’ Sticking to the basics keeps the band bouncing, which is plainly obvious on the lead single, “She’s Kerosene” from The Interrupters’ latest album for Epitaph’s Hellcat imprint, Flight the Good Fight.

Yarn

[COUNTRY] After putting out the transitional This Is The Year in 2017, roots rockers Yarn decided to switch things up a bit, opting to release their latest music as a series of virtual 45’s throughout 2018. Yarn may not be the first artists to try this strategy, but it was a savvy move on their part, monetizing their output throughout the year and keeping fans engaged with new music on a monthly basis.

Mike Gordon

[JAM] Phish bassist Mike Gordon returns to Town Ballroom on Tuesday, March 19. And while longtime fans can likely trace musical lineage between his work in Vermont’s most famed musical export (which just had a little shindig down in Mexico last month) and his solo projects, it’s not the slam dunk some might expect.

The Tossers

[PUNK] Technically, this Celtic-punk 6-piece from the Windy City were pioneers, pre-dating Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly by a few years each. With a dedicated tin-whistle player (Aaron Duggins) and violinist (Emily Ruth Constantinou), plus lead singer T. Duggins on mandolin and banjo, The Tossers heartily project their ethnic inflections in earnest, bolstered by plenty of punk sneer – it’s enough to make you do a thrashing jig. Their show on Thursday, March 14 at the Rec Room is in support of 2017’s Smash the Windows.

For All Mankind: Apollo 11

The first thing on screen is rolling tread, huge, bigger than any moving vehicle you’ve ever seen, twice the height of a man standing in front of it. It’s moving—slowly (no danger of that guy getting crushed by it), but the fact that it’s in motion at all is something of a miracle given its size. And just as you’re wondering what could possibly be so large as to require a hauling platform of this size, the camera slowly pulls back, and we see it: the Saturn 5 rocket, 30 stories high, more than twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.

Frost/Nixon at the Irish Classical Theatre

Sick to death of politics? I can’t say that I blame you: These days, who isn’t? But don’t let that put you off from the new production of Frost/Nixon at the Irish Classical Theater. Despite its subject, the man once reviled as the worst president in American history, it isn’t really a political play. Writer Peter Morgan has made a career delving into the people behind the public personas, from Queen Elizabeth (The Queen, The Audience, The Crown) to Idi Amin (The Last King of Scotland) and Freddie Mercury (Bohemian Rhapsody).

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