Blog: Hip To Be Square

Nels Cline w/ Flaming Lips covering Beatles

Feb 5, 4:46pm

Flaming Lips featuring Nels Cline - I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Live NYE 2012

TweetYet another favorite of ours releases a look inside his upcoming release, A Wasteland Campanion. With floating guitar lines and a rumbling bass drum, "The First Time I Ran Away" is a welcome addition to the his giant catalog.

NEW ANDREW BIRD!

Jan 25, 10:06pm

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TweetWe're all jumping for joy over here...What a fun reminder that Andrew's new album, Break it Yourself, is around the corner. Eyeoneye by Andrew Bird

Etta James playing with the Grateful Dead

Jan 24, 5:27pm

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Grateful Dead & Etta James - Hard To Handle 12-31-1982

TweetDon't need many words to describe how awesome this is. RIP Etta.

Slum Village "Get Dis Money" – stream this J Dilla produced masterpiece

Jan 8, 10:07pm

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Phish Predictions and Wish List for MSG New Years 2011

Dec 27, 2011, 2:11pm

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Music I liked in 2011 – Atlas Sound takes the cake

Dec 18, 2011, 10:34am

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Phish Hampton 97 – Halley's Comet Video

Nov 28, 2011, 11:33am

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TweetGetting released into the wild on December 6th, the Hampton/Winston-Salem box set from Phish covers the bands live shows from their epic fall 1997 tour and they have chosen three shows in particular - two from Hampton Coliseum and one from Winston-Salem, which preceded the two Hampton shows during the tour. Fans can bitch and [...]

I miss the chip

Nov 12, 2011, 12:49pm

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Tweet Hot Chip is planning a new album for 2012 so we should have some touring from them after a year of no activity. While the chip had nothing really happening this year, the band members sure were activity. Learn more about what they've been up to here.

Dopestyle 1231 – "I'm Grendel" is a perfect filler for Halloween

Oct 20, 2011, 11:21am

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Tweet The beats from this album are perfect for those Halloween mixes and thanks to our friends over at Waxploitation, they've got all of the instrumentals available over at SoundCloud for streaming and downloading.

More new Atlas Sound music – Modern Aquatic Nightsongs

Sep 29, 2011, 12:20pm

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TweetBradford Cox's side project, Atlas Sound, is releasing a new album on November 8th called Parallax but that isn't stopping him from sharing his new tunes with the world right now. So far there have been roughly 4 tracks that you can either download or stream. This is a slightly different approach for Brad who's [...]

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A Google Group for Boston Music Lovers

Sep 29, 2011, 1:15am

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Tweet For some time I've been attempting to keep up with a concert newsletter. However, keeping up with this newsletter was easier said than done. Also, my concert going activities often happen on a whim and setting up an e-newsletter every time would have been overkill. The best next thing, in my opinion, is to [...]

Headed to Vermont for Phish benefit concert

Sep 12, 2011, 9:54pm

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TweetSo I'm headed up north to good old Burlington, Vermont on Wednesday. The rumors came true this time and the boys decided to squeeze in one more show for the year as they have hinted that they will be going on an extensive break after this long summer of touring. This show will benefit the [...]

Stream New Blitzen Trapper album – American Goldwing

Sep 12, 2011, 11:11am

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TweetA bunch of album streams exist in the below player. To find Blitzen's newest, just scroll your mouse over the up and down arrows until you come across American Goldwing. Other notable streams in this player that you may want to check out are Girls, The Rapture, Dawes. Blitzen Trapper and Dawes co-headline at The [...]

Listen to new Deer Tick track – "Miss K"

Aug 30, 2011, 12:04pm

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TweetI wrote about Deer Tick in 2007 and had a feeling these guys (read John McCauley) would mature and continue to polish up their sound. Their latest, "Miss K", continues to reassure me of this assertion. Their next release, Divine Providence, is out on Partisan Records, on October 25th.

Deer Tick - Miss K

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Washed Out chills out "Far Away" in a Yourstru.ly shoot

Aug 25, 2011, 12:30pm

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Yourstru.ly Presents: Washed Out "Far Away"

TweetThe music of Washed Out is already chill in and of itself (I mean, the cool kids don't call it chillwave for nothing). But here, Ernest Greene goes deep into the heart of "rock and soul", a term coined by the late Hall & Oats. And what would be such a sound without the soothing [...]

Blitzen Trapper and Dawes playing Royale in Boston on 10-28-2011

Aug 24, 2011, 2:00pm

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TweetAs recently confessed, Blitzen Trapper is a strong favorite artist of mine. While their studio recordings bring smiles to my face, their live shows do that and more. They'll be headed our way in late October on a co-headline tour with ATO's country-rock outfit, Dawes - a band I haven't given much listening to but [...]

More Blitzen Trapper love from new album American Goldwing

Aug 24, 2011, 12:00pm

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TweetThis was the year that I solidified Blitzen Trapper as a one of my go-to music selections when I can't think of anything else to play. It takes a special band to fit this bill and I'm quite happy I added them to the other standards (Tom Waits, Wilco, Johnny Cash, Grateful Dead, etc.). So [...]

Blitzen Trapper - Love The Way You Walk Away

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Title: Love The Way You Walk Away
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Second Cass McCombs album of 2011 – listen to The Same Thing

Aug 20, 2011, 1:51pm

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TweetCass's second album, Humor Risk, is out on Domino Records November 8th. Listen to his new track, "The Same Thing", below and bask in all his up beat glory. Cass McCombs - The Same Thing by DominoRecordCo Watch Cass McCombs play "Dreams Come True Girl" at his performance earlier this year at The Red Room [...]