This week's update of what local music shows in the Boston area are playing: Commercial Radio Bay State Rock on WAAF 97.7/107.3 fm Hosted by Carmelita. Sundays 10 pm - 12 am. Milquetoast & Co. - Appeal Pony - Cake Welch Boys - Head in the Sand Cassavettes - Seek Cover Planetoid - Lord of this Asteroid The Complaints - Weak Tony the Bookie Orchestra - She Don't Wear Black Axemunkee - Dali's Dark Dream Muy Cansado - The Other Night Darkbuster - Hometown Zero Prospect Hill - 4 AM [...]
If Ralph Waldo Emerson was correct in observing that "genius realizes and adds," then boy genius do not deserve their moniker, even in an ironic lowercase. The reed-thin vocals and jangly guitars frolic irrepressibly in another era (think Reality Bites rather than Singles ) without contributing anything new to today's canon. Reminds us of: furry, happy monsters laughing | one of those bands that Tanya Donnelly was in | late night infomercials boy genius: ( Label [...]
Sing Me to Sleep American Laundromat have just started taking pre-orders for a special limited edition first pressing of their latest charity compilation Sing Me to Sleep . The album contains lullabies performed by a fine collection of indie artists including Dean & Britta (not sure what their track is as yet, I'll update as soon as I know) as well as Tanya Donnelly, The Antlers and Papercuts (and lots more). The special edition comes with an extra CD of bonus tracks, a 73 single and lots of other bits and pieces plus the chance [...]
Move over, Alex Trebek! LimeWire Store and LimeWire Music Blog proudly present the first Live at Lime Trivia Contest ! Answer the following ten questions correctly for your chance to win a one-year platinum subscription to LimeWire Store! Runners up win their choice of three of our Live at Lime sessions. Submit your answers to contests@limewire.com no later than Monday, September 28th at Midnight. For a list of all Live at Lime sessions, check out www.store.limewire.com/liveatl ime . Contest rules are available here . Best of luck! [...]
I have been thinking about blogging about L7 for months now. Today is the day. I don't claim to be an expert on all female rock bands, but I have always liked L7. I think my first exposure to an all female band was The Runaways back in the early 70's. I remember hearing my friend Jeff play "Cherry Bomb" and thinking that it was kind of interesting. The most successful all girl band would have to be The Go-Go's I suppose, but if I was posting about The Go-Go's I would have listed this post under Guilty Pleasures. It's [...]
Most Likely To: make an indie-nerd shake his skinny ass. This writer has seen lots of inexplicable things over his many years following pop music. He has seen Jethro Tull win a Grammy for Best Heavy Metal Album. He has seen the spiritual descendents of the original punk movement happily embrace prog values in the guise of Coheed & Cambria, the Mars Volta and the Decemberists. He has seen Iggy Pop have a top-40 hit, Sam Phillips never have one, and Matchbox20 have way, way too many. He has seen Paula [...]
The Breeders with Whispertown 2000 at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston, MA (Monday, August 17, 2009) Side projects of bands typically grow out of frustrated non-lead members not getting to a chance to showcase their own songs, and The Breeders as a separate effort is no different. What started out as a project of friends (headed by Pixie Kim Deal and Throwing Muser/soon-to-be Belly Tanya Donnelly) soon grew into a real band with a vibrant sound very different from their main bands. After Tanya left, Kim's identical sister Kelley (who with her sister [...]
Fuck Boston! And Aerosmith too while we're at it! Fuck them, to hell with New Kids on the Block, The Lemonheads can blow me, and don't even get me started on their Celtic punk bands ('cause I actually enjoy them quite a bit). The Boston music scene has thrived for years, whether shilling to drunk folks of Irish ancestry or fawning over the latest college rock wonder they have always had a rich musical history. With my beloved Yankees heading into to town once again it seems like as good a time as any to countdown the 10 greatest bands [...]
[Indie pop goddess Tanya Donnelly celebrates a birthday today.] Excellent night to be at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa, where Foreign Born supports their sophomore album "Person to Person" with The Veils opening. ... The Datsuns [pictured] are back with a raucous new album "Headstunts" and are playing at the Echo with locals Spirit Vine . ... At Spaceland, Mini Mansions open for The Child ( Holly Marilyn 's new band). ... And Oh No Not Stereo and Scarlet Grey [...]
Sciabolata velocissima su tutto il resto. Alla Ziliani The Vaselines : col senno di poi "uno dei gruppi più sfigati della storia", snocciolano subito Son of a gun, Molly's lips, Turnaround insomma le cose per cui uno stava lì. Sento l'onda di suono dei Lightning Bolt e me ne vado. Sfiga dicevamo, vero? Bloc Party : Morti. Kaput. Fine. E mi sono bastati 5 canzoni di cui una irriconoscibile Helicopter per capirlo. Parliamo ormai di un qualcosa che neanche è più un pallido ricordo di Silent Alarm. Yo [...]
Interesting show at the Brattle on Thursday comedy, music and Tanya. Don't know if there are tix left or not but it might be worth investigating. Lots of country twinged music this weekend. Starting on Thursday, check out either Girls, Guns and Glory at Great Scott or Jimmy Ryan at Atwoods. Church is hosting its 3rd Annual Alt Country Extravaganza on both Friday and Saturday nights. Both nights look good, but Saturday's lineup looks a little stronger. If country's not your thing, see Andrea Gillis on Saturday, she always puts on a great show. Here's a [...]
Well, mostly a bunch of crappy bands who sell a lot of records, but amongst all of the chaff, you can find a little bit of wheat including: Black Mountain, Chad VanGaalen, Fucked Up, Plants and Animals, The Stills, Ron Sexsmith, Kathleen Edwards, Hawksley Workman, Sam Roberts, Tokyo Police Club, Crystal Castles and a few others I probably missed. 2009 Juno Awards Selected Categories ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY CANADIAN RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION) Famous Last Words Hedley Universal [...]
(photo: doves.net) It's been a long time since 2005's Some Cities , but the wait is almost over for fans of Doves , as the Manchester band has announced that Kingdom of Rust will be out on April 7th (just in time for my birthday). Details about what to expect on the album are sketchy, but judging by the teaser track they've made available from their website, it's not too far from what made Doves such a fantastic band in the first place. "Jetstream" continues in the epic [...]
With a nod to the wheels of democracy, State's team of reviewers all pitched in their votes for the finest 50 albums of 2008. Here for your perusal and debate is the top 25 albums of that list as they charted. The comprehensive and alphabetical list of 50 will be available in print and in our online reader which we will be distributing from tomorrow. State's 25 best albums of 2008 25. Santogold - Santogold 24. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound 23. Ham Sandwich - Carry The [...]
The new Wedding Present single off this year's El Rey may have a very Wedding Present sounding name in "Don't Take Me Home until I'm Drunk", but the tune seems more suitable for Gedge's other band, Cinerama, with its soft and jangly approach-that is until the guitars kick in at the end. In other news, the band is covering The Cure for Just Like Heaven - another ubiquitous Cure tribute set for release in January 2009 via American Laundromat Records . Unfortunately, Gedge is tackling one of The Cure's worst singles, "High" off 1992's [...]
American Laundromat Records are streaming all the tracks from their upcoming tribute album to The Cure "Just Like Heaven". Dean and Britta cover Friday I'm in Love and the album also features contributions from The Wedding Present, Tanya Donnelly and Elk City. To hear the whole album you can head over to the American Laundromat's web page and launch their radio player or you can go straight to the player using this link . The album will be released to shops early next year but the label is taking pre-orders now at their [...]
Tonight we take a trip up to the Leadmill in Sheffield to see the promising new band 'White Lies'. They sound excellent, early Killers with a touch of Editors in there. So I couldn't really pass that one up. We arrive early to find that the gig is in the Leadmill's cosy backroom, nice and intimate. We catch some of the set by the Post War Years. Hailing from Leamington Spa, they produce a nice mish-mash of pop, rock and electro. Lots of keyboards and the like but with some rocking guitar riffs added in, and a touch [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Carla Bozulich : 2008-05-31, Lyon [mp3,ogg,flac] "Paper Kitten Claw" [mp3] other Carla Bozulich posts at Largehearted Boy Cracker : 2008-09-06, Pittsburgh [mp3,ogg,flac] "The World Is Mine" [mp3] other Cracker posts at Largehearted Boy Glen Phillips : 2008-07-08, Isle of Palms [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
Can an independent label live mostly off of cover albums? Might as well ask American Laudromat Records, who's got an arsenal full of them. From the Pixies tribute Dig for Fire to the Neil Young tribute Cinnamon Girl and beyond, the southeastern Connecticut-based upstart has made a nice living bowing down to rock's finest, usually with the help of rock's finest. Up next is the all-star homage Just Like Heaven: A Tribute to The Cure , which features artists like The Wedding Present, Tanya Donnelly (Throwing Muses, The [...]
Pioneering new wave the Cure is receiving the full tribute treatment, with sixteen of their most well known songs being covered by the likes of Cassettes Won't Listen, Tanya Donnelly, ...
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