
SPECIAL DELIVERY: Boston's Eli " Paperboy " Reed is taking his patented soul-drenched Motown sound back to the South by Southwest Music Festival this March. Reed is currently preparing for Austin by playing a NY residency at The Bell House in Brooklyn. On March 11, Reed returns home playing a show at the Middle East in Cambridge. That show will kick off the tour and a sequence of dates that will take The True Loves into the deep south and Reed's boyhood home [...]
Tras 20 días de votaciones en LO MEJOR DEL ROCK DEL 2008 hay un doble empate en cabeza. "Warpaint" de The Black Crowes lleva los mismos votos que "Chinese Democracy" de Guns N' Roses . Curiosa coincidencia en el mejor disco de este año a punto de terminar. Quedan 10 días para que el entuerto se decida. Espero que entre todos ayudéis a dilucidar [...]

- Intervista a Eli Reed - Difficile credere che una voce così potente possa avere le innocue fattezze di questo ragazzo. Appena lo abbiamo visto ci siamo resi immediatamente conto con i nostri occhi del motivo per il quale viene soprannominato il "Paperboy" . Penso che guardando queste foto possa più o meno essere chiaro a tutti. Eppure, quando a fine intervista dopo le parole sono arrivati i fatti, cioè quando Eli ha finalmente mosso la sua ugola (ascoltate [...]

Jive back in time with Eli 'Paperboy' Reed , a soulful young talent hailing from Massachusetts in the U.S. Alongside his band, The True Loves, Eli's vintage sounds wouldn't have been out of place on the MoTown roster of the 60's. Just 24 years old, it is quite amazing to hear such retro tunes coming from such a young man. Heavily educated in, and influenced by music before his day - Eli's Redding-esque sound is so very authentic in comparison to the modern day soul of Amy Winehouse and Welsh lass Duffy - an artist [...]

I'll be rock and rolling this coming week away on vacation, so while I'm gone here's a mix to kick your pre-Halloween week into party mode too. Dance on. Eli "Paperboy" Reed And The True Loves - (Doin' The)Boom Boom Buy Roll With You James Hunter - She's Got A Way Buy The Hard Way The Clash - Wrong 'Em Boyo [...]

Having slept for more than 3 hours, Editor in Chief Jessica and I found ourselves out the door and headed to the park in a somewhat timely manner. Pausing for only a moment at a local McDonald's (ew, right?) [ Ed. Note: fruit and yogurt parfait is delish! ] for breakfast, we pointed our bodies toward the dust pit that was Zilker Park. 11:45-12:30 // Langhorne Slim // Dell Stage As we shifted through the somewhat modest morning crowd, making our way towards the Dell Dome to get Jessica's hair teased into the finest [...]

It feels like a Saturday night here in the city, what with all of the great national bands playing in town tonight (and the fact that I stayed out far too late for a Monday night at the awesome Dead Confederate show everyone else in town should also have been at). Strident, Pretenders-echoing rockers Heartless Bastards and dirt-twang outfit Langhorne Slim -- who's making STL a home away from home lately -- are at the Duck Room, while stoner kids Awesome Color (with Intelligence and local Skarekrau Radio opening) are [...]

Eli "Paperboy" Reed, all of 25 now maybe?, has been tittering Boston muso ears for a few years and this year marked his debut to the rest of the country... and planet. MOJO's digging it, Duffy's asked him to open, MTV Italy is ciao bella on em, he played Paris last summer and he's booking the big festivals. In other words, we aren't seeing him in 50-capacity venues here no mo. The Brookline native has also got a keen little backstory to go along with his sweet, soul sound — from stomping plankboards in Delta jukejoints [...]

Eli "Paperboy" Reed, all of 25 now maybe?, has been tittering Boston muso ears for a few years and this year marked his debut to the rest of the country... and planet. MOJO's digging it, Duffy's asked him to open, MTV Italy is ciao bella on em, he played Paris last summer and he's booking the big festivals. In other words, we aren't seeing him in 50-capacity venues here no mo. The Brookline native has also got a keen little backstory to go along with his sweet, soul sound — from stomping plankboards in Delta jukejoints [...]

Well, I'm going to play it again. Because someone has to: Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves - Take My Love with You (mp3) ( buy ) Disappointed the band ( myspace ) didn't play this, more so than I could be when Radiohead didn't get to "Let Down." Because of the odds - Reed and his band has one album and a couple singles, and even in a short set you'd think they'd play their best number - and because this is the song , kids. Huge [...]

- Frequenze Reviews - 1. Stake Your Claim (Mp3) 2. Am I Wasting My Time 3. It's Easier 4. The Satisfier 5. Take My Love With You 6. I'll Roll With You 7. She Walks 8. I'm Gonna Getcha Back (Mp3) 9. Won't Give Up Without A Fight 10. (Am I Just) Fooling Myself 11. (Doin' The) Boom Boom Recensione n. 52/2008 Buy it from Amazon [...]
Ou quand la presse monte au créneau pour ériger en héros Soul un jeune artiste indé biberonné, semble-t-il, au son d' Otis Redding et Wilson Pickett . Amy Winehouse nous a t-elle tous envoûtés ? Tout comme il y eu, à la fin des années 90, un effet Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill , le tourbillon Back To Back , associé à l'irrépressible aura de la Diva Rockabilly , a modifié notre façon d'appréhender la musique. D'où cette tendance à vouloir retrouver dans les productions Soul actuelles, des sonorités [...]
This week's long laundry list of amazing bands waiting to be heard, features the first Portishead album in over ten years, aptly named Third . The talent is still there and the album is packed with great songs. 65daysofstatic also released an EP this week that sounds like it is ready to be played on tour with The Cure. Other releases that I can recommend are A Town and Two Cities by Your Vegas and Santogold's self-titled release. 65daysofstatic The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties [...]