Love Your Local Band: Suborbitals
Ryan Masters recalls how excited he was in 2006 when his avant-pop band the Suborbitals released its debut record, Blackout Rolling. It felt like there was some momentum behind the group, and he was...
View ArticleMusic Picks: August 8-14
Live music highlights for the week of August 8, 2018. WEDNESDAY 8/8 INDIE BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE A Canadian indie rock band that’s been around since the late ’90s, Broken Social Scene is as much an...
View ArticleBe Our Guest: Anderson East
Based in Nashville, Tennessee, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anderson East performs southern soul, R&B, Americana, roots, rock, blues and more. The grandson of a Baptist preacher and...
View ArticleLove Your Local Band: Wild Blue
Paul Logan plays bass and sings in local trio Wild Blue, which covers songs by acts like Jimmy Buffet, the Eagles, Harry Nilsson and Fleetwood Mac. And of all of the labels put on his band, Logan...
View ArticleMusic Picks: August 15-21
Live music highlights for the week of August 15, 2018. THURSDAY 8/16 INDIE-FOLK PARSONSFIELD A band that got its start playing the folk music club at the University of Connecticut, Parsonsfield is a...
View ArticleDavid Byrne Reclaims Relevance, Legacy on New Tour
The “Final Transmission” episode of Documentary Now—the recent Netflix series in which Fred Armisen and Bill Hader lovingly skewer a different famous documentary in each installment—begins with a shot...
View ArticleLove Your Local Band: Wild and Blue
Back in 2015, father and daughter Steve and April Bennett were driving home from a gig they had played with their new band Wild and Blue when April told her dad that her engagement to her fiancé was...
View ArticleMusic Picks: August 22-28
THURSDAY 8/23 HIP-HOP YELAWOLF For just under a decade, rapper Yelawolf has been in the mainstream on Eminem’s label Shady Records, pumping out rap songs that are at once catchy and a little offbeat....
View ArticleLove Your Local Band: Little Petie and the Mean Old Men
When Peter Michael was a kid, his family called him “Little Petie.” His dad was Peter and his grandfather was Pete, so the nickname sort of made sense. But he hated it. As he’s gotten older, though,...
View ArticleMusic Picks: August 29-September 4
Live music highlights for the week of August 29, 2018. WEDNESDAY 8/29 INDIE-POP BAD BAD HATS Can you describe your band in three words or less? Minneapolis trio Bad Bad Hat can; they call it “sweet and...
View ArticleLove Your Local Band: Star La’Moan & The Kitchenettes
Star La’Moan, frontwoman for the local eclectic band Star La’Moan and the Kitchenettes (jazz, blues, all things New Orleans), likes to bring a box of wooden spoons, pots, pans and other kitchen...
View ArticleMusic Picks: September 5-11
Live music highlights for the week of September 5, 2018. WEDNESDAY 9/5 REGGAE MISAEL Relief efforts continue in Puerto Rico, and its citizens are still struggling. That’s why it’s important to keep...
View ArticleMusic Picks: September 12-18
Live music highlights for the week of September 12, 2018. WEDNESDAY 9/12 ALT-COUNTRY LASERS LASERS BIRMINGHAM Southern Californians have been playing country-influenced music as long as guitars have...
View ArticleLove Your Local Band: August Sun
When putting together his new band August Sun, Santa Cruz guitarist/vocalist Christian Walsh gave a lot of thought to what had gone wrong with his previous group, Poor Beggar Thieves, which dissolved...
View ArticlePreview: Hiss Golden Messenger to Play the Catalyst
A strange thing happens when you listen to the new Hiss Golden Messenger record Hallelujah Anyhow. You kind of don’t know how to feel. At least that was my reaction, which I tell leader MC Taylor at...
View ArticleLove Your Local Band: Funky Joe and the Mofos
People were calling Joe Neto Jr. “Funky Joe” before he started a band called Funky Joe and the Mofos. He kind of had a reputation for bringing the energy, as anyone who saw his band Funkranomicon can...
View ArticleMusic Picks: September 19-25
Live music highlights for the week of September 19, 2018. WEDNESDAY 9/19 COUNTRY MIRA GOTO Singer-songwriter Miro Gota likes to tell stories, like the guitar-slingers of yesteryear used to do. But her...
View ArticlePreview: The Essex Green at Crepe Place
Four years ago, Sasha Bell wrote the song “Slanted By Six,” a song about her sadness regarding the loss of her band the Essex Green, which played its last show in 2008. “It felt like a death. It really...
View ArticleMusic Picks: Sept. 26-Oct. 2
Live music highlights for the week of September 26, 2018 WEDNESDAY 9/26 BLUEGRASS SHAKY HAND STRING BAND Is there a difference between mountain-grass and standard old-timey bluegrass? This is the...
View ArticleLove Your Local Band: Fascinating Creatures of The Deep
Adrian Cavlan has been playing music in local bands for a long time. Well, there was about a 15-year gap where he wasn’t. But when he returned to music, he noticed that if the leader of the band...
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