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Welcome to Seven in Seven, where we look at shows coming to the region over the next week. As always, whether your musical tastes are rock ’n’ roll, jazz, heavy metal, R&B, singer-songwriter or indie, ...

Slow Crush’s new album Thirst is on the way, and the Belgian shoegaze band previously previewed it with the dark earworms “Thirst” and “Cherry.” Today they’re offering another taste with a towering ...

If you ever wanted to be slowly ground into a fine paste under the weight of the dark and heavy sludge/doom metal of bands like Amenra, Primitive Man, and Slow Crush, then damn it you missed the ...