One week from this Saturday, Providence's art-noise kings Lightning Bolt will play the Loving Touch in Ferndale, on April 18, with Metz. Tickets appear to still be available. If you've never seen them live, you're in for one of the most fun shows in your life. we're talking Thee Oh Sees/ Boredoms/ Rush levels of super badassery. The two Brians are straight-up geniuses, and they've been doing this for 18 years, now.
Metro Times music editor Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance at age sixteen with money saved from mowing lawns in Florida. He's since written for Spin, Pitchfork, the Village VOICE and Artforum. He's been a museum guard, a financial reporter, a bicycle...
