Smash Mouth at Outside The Box Boston
Photographs of Smash Mouth performing at Outside The Box Boston Festival 2016.
Jesse Royal – Waterfront Reggae Festival
Photographs of Jesse Royal performing at the 2016 Waterfront Reggae Festival in Rhode Island.
Badfish at Boston House Of Blues
Badfish performing their Christmas bash at Boston’s House Of Blues on December 23, 2016.
Passafire at Middle East Nightclub – Cambridge, MA
Photographs of Passafire performing at the Middle East Nightclub in Cambridge, MA on 10/16/2016.
Alec Benjamin at State Theatre – Portland, Maine
Photos from the NYE show at Portland’s State Theatre. Alec Benjamin performed an acoustic set.
October in Review
As warm weather fades away, Dance Your Face Off! has been seeking shelter at the indoor shows around New England. The month of October gave Massachusetts a solid variety of music offerings, spread out to venues all across the state. We covered a reggae rock show headlined by Passafire, Chadwick Stokes (of Dispatch and State Radio) who brought a mix of classic and new songs to his show, and a rock/metal event headlined by Clutch.
Sublime With Rome at State Theatre Maine
Photographs of Sublime With Rome at State Theatre in Portland, Maine on November 12, 2016.
2016 Summer Festival Recap
It was a busy and productive last few months here at www.danceyourfaceoff.com (DYFO!). In our second summer of operation, we were fortunate enough to cover many magnificent shows and festivals throughout the country.
The ball got rolling in April when we traveled to Myrtle Beach for the California Roots Carolina Sessions. The star-studded lineup featured reggae acts including The Movement, Fortunate Youth, Passafire, and Stick Figure, with headliners Soja and 311. As great as the festival was, there was a bit of disruption throughout that was quite an annoyance; Soja’s Jacob Hemphill had to call out the security team (attendees referred to them as SWAT) for hauling off ‘potheads’ left and right and causing commotion. The festival organizers have since acknowledged this, and have vowed to loosen things up for next year. We look forward to that and to attending again.
Young the Giant’s ‘Home of the Strange’ Tour
Young the Giant announced a tour earlier in the year to accompany their August release of their third album Home of the Strange. On September 18th, the Orange County quintet landed in Boston with a killer set of old and new tunes playing nearly 20 songs over the course of two hours. Our first encounter with Young the Giant was back in 2011 at a Jimmy Kimmel Live show and the attraction to the bands thoroughly-developed, mammoth live sound was the immediate draw. DYFO has since attended Young the Giant both at indoor and outdoor venues between Massachusetts, Tennessee, and California. The band has only grown more and more into their live sound (which easily tops their studio recordings, in our opinion) which is reflected stupendously in any size arena, with singer Sameer Gadhia’s astounding vocals leading the charge.
Periphery’s Sonic Unrest Tour
Periphery came to town this week in the form of the Sonic Unrest Tour, hot off their recent release of Periphery III: Select Difficulty. For those unfamiliar, Periphery is a progressive metal/djent band who have been tearing up the metal scene since their debut in 2010 and have been cranking out albums ever since. Periphery III: Select Difficulty came to us just a month before the Boston show, the follow-up to 2015’s dual album and tour Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega. The new album, dense with the familiar heavy riffage of Periphery’s usual style, expands on the band members strengths without being overly experimental this time around – but the result is nothing but another great album from the group.