I play competitive air guitar. What else do you need to know?
rock & roll rumble 2016
Okay! Getting in right under the wire with this one, but another band playing tonight, in Night 3 of the 2016 Rock & Roll Rumble at ONCE, that you definitely need to know about: Salem Wolves. They have once referred to themselves as being trashy garage pop, and that is
field day
[bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=4227811984 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=e99708 tracklist=false artwork=small track=433488755] All right! Things are under way! Nights 1 and 2 are in the books (Night 1, incidentally, being won by Weakened Friends, way to go), and Night 3 is tonight. So
So, I was going to try to stick to one band per night of the Rumble – maybe my favorite for that night, or who I thought might win (not always the same, of course) – but then the schedule came out and shot my plans all to hell. On Night 1,
rock & roll rumble 2016
It’s that time of year again, friends – the annual Rock & Roll Rumble, Boston music institution, is about to get started and guess who, specifically, is getting it started? Our buddies The Digs are very literally kicking the thing off; they are playing in the first slot of the
best of 2015
Oh boy, it’s time for another top 10 list! And by “it’s time,” I mean “I am a few days late.” These things stress me out and I can’t even pretend these are in any order, but everything on here is something that I loved this year,
feral jenny
[bandcamp width=700 height=42 album=3131815509 size=small bgcol=ffffff linkcol=e99708 track=523491729] Dear all bands: it’s a good idea to name your album Greatest Hits even if it’s all new stuff. Confidence is attractive! So, occasionally I write about bands that aren’t from the
One of my favorite things to write about on this blog is Boston bands; even better when it’s Boston bands that I know and go to see often. Today is one of those days! The Digs are about to release their brand-new album, Manic, and you should know about
tourist dollars
I wrote most of this alone in my office in the dark last night and it seemed appropriate. Tourist Dollars’ debut single, “End of Times,” has windswept crooning and lonely guitars; it’s magical and sad, and if this is what the end of times is going to be like,
pony time
Let’s get one thing clear at the outset: this is not about “Nice Guys” in the sense of the awful dudes you know who expect something out of you because they are “nice” and not monsters, as if that was worthy of reward and not just a baseline of
raccoon fighter
Yesterday, I instructed you to shake your butt. Today, Raccoon Fighter wants to countermand that order, saying “I don’t want you to shake it no more.” Well, when you listen to their new tune “I’m So Proud,” off their just-released EP Spiral Flag, I say to you: Good
moondog matinee
Moondog Matinee hail from Reno. I don’t know much about Reno except for what I know from a Throw Rag song, but going by that metric, this feels just about right. It’s bluesy, singer Peter Barnato’s voice is so gravelly it sounds like he just ate a
gaetana brown
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCef8Us0bSM[/youtube] Friends, this is something special. I have the privilege of inviting you to a solo acoustic show by Gaetana Brown of Little War Twins, on my back porch, on July 31st. She is touring the region playing house and porch and