New Music this Week ! Someone You Should Know TONIGHT IN TOWN: Miss Tess & the Bon Ton Parade w/ Annie & The Beekeepers @ the Lizard Lounge an artist you can believe in [...]
In Boston This Week ! Worthwhile Performances: I will start off this piece by relaying some pretty good news for Boston; beginning in 2011, the City will serve as host for a national-level music event on par with those that most music fans travel far to see. In May 2011, Hub of the Universe (the festival's name) will unfold here in Boston. [...]
NEW MUSIC ALERT: Boston's Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers ( Best of 2007 selection ) are on the verge of releasing (May 12th) their new six-song EP " The Squid Hell Sessions. " A special release party takes place tonight in front of what is bound to be a full house over at the Lizard Lounge . (We understand that the presale tickets are completely gone.) There's a lot of excitement about this band and here's why... [...]
We were first charmed by Annie and the Beekeepers last fall at CMJ , and the bluegrass-folk outift is now readying a new EP, Squid Hell Sessions , for release May 12. We've got your first listen to the lead track, "Like A Dog." The songs on Squid Hell Sessions were recorded appropriately enough at Squid Hell Studios in Jamaica Plain, Mass. last fall, and early this year in Brooklyn. The band produced the work with the help of Garth Stevenson, Adrian Olsen and Kyle VandeKerkhoff. [...]
By P. Elizabeth Cawein Imagine a web where every point connects to every other point. It becomes so entangled that as you try to follow one connection, you end up somewhere else and can't quite remember where it was you came from in the first place. Now imagine at each of those points a person, a musician, an instrument and a musical style. It's an interconnected web of sorts. An inter-web? Taylor Shell from Turkuaz calls it a "cluster fuck." However you describe it, it's this music school phenomenon - or more specifically, [...]
The World lost one of its last true pioneers yesterday. New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary was a philanthropist, beekeeper and a social icon for a generation. He gained fame for being the first man to ever climb the world's highest peak in Mount Everest. Hillary came to personify human potential - something far more reaching than what he actually accomplished on a cold mountain top in 1953. TO NEW HEIGHTS - A HILLARY TRIBUTE Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing [...]
- Tuesday, November 27th - 3 Boston Artists, an All-Acoustic Night! The RSL brings you another great line-up - the Secret Show is revealed! Eldridge Rodriguez (aka E.R.) is an exceptional and most unique artist – hailing from right here in the city. ER is the singer for Midriff Recording Artists The Beatings and currently also pursuing a healthy solo career. 2007 saw the release of ER's incredible solo debut with [...]
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