Pelle Almqvist admitted he made an "unintentional but serious mistake"    

Swedish garage-rockers the Hives are no strangers to lapses in taste; they did, after all, make this. But as Boston’s CBS Local reports, they went a bit far last night, when they opened for Pink at Boston’s TD Garden. Here’s a bit of stage patter from singer Pelle Almqvist: “This song’s for every...

Portlandia’s Fred Armisen has played shows alongside a wide range of talent and we have seen him perform TLC’s “Waterfalls” in the past. Last Friday night, Armisen covered the song again at the Berklee School of Music with Sixpence None The Richer’s Leigh Nash and J Mascis on guitar. Mascis and A...

This all feels like a milestone, Dan Shea tells me. We’re sitting in a back room of the Elk’s Lodge basement, a dungeon-esque place with low ceilings and lower lighting. We’re surrounded by stacks of instruments, and people are coming through, running questions by Shea, while an artist works through a solo sax perfo...

The underrated Boston indie singer-songwriter Mary Lou Lord dated Kurt Cobain before Cobain married Courtney Love, and so you’ll be absolutely shocked to discover that Love and Lord don’t much like each other. Mostly, Love has been the aggressor, talking shit on Lord in interviews throughout the ’90s, while the way-...