New X-Mas EP this Week ! Someone You Need to Know There's a point in the listening to this simply amazing 3-song holiday EP (on MIDRIFF ) - when you realize just how good Eldridge Rodriguez and his [...]
PICK: Album of the Month Someone You Should Know THE BEST NEW ALBUMS of 2011 - It was on my second listen of Age Rings ' Black Honey that I realize how lucid my [...]
June 2011 Album of the Month This One You Need to Own Louder My Dear - 99 A FRESH START - You can't help but think we are at the beginning of something new, exciting and - and possibly maybe even a little scary. There are a lot of people out there that feel this way. [...]
New Music Report Out Today ! Get Help's sophomore effort The Good Green Earth is out today and we needed to fit it into our publishing schedule. The band was formed basically as an excursion in songwriting, and its survival speaks to how well the players have gotten on over the last 2+ years. [...]
Photographic Evidence photos by 5342 Studios Red Hot Right Now! A Band You Need to Know... Atlanta's BABY BABY are the wildest new band in America BABY BABY - Fire! [...]
What's Here, What's Ahead Someone You Should Know New Holiday EP James Brown Died on Christmas Day by Hands and Knees If Hands and Knees lived in Los Angeles, the world would know who they are already. This [...]
LIVE from the "Cellar Series" RARE VIDEO FOOTAGE Lon Chaney as the Wolfman THE NEW BASEMENT TAPES - Boston's Ian Adams (RSL Best of 2009 Artist Selection) is casting a spell of wonder once again. In addition to his wicked album, [...]
rslblog.com's Record Label of the Year Midriff's got the Stuff You Need to Hear AWARD WINNER - Already responsible for a back-catalog of albums savvy enough to make most upstarts proud, Midriff Records (Boston/NY) was far from resting on its laurels. That much became quite clear to all of us as we headed down the final stretch of 2009. Having repeatedly celebrating Midriff's releases, it became clear that 3 of my top 10 albums of the year came from [...]
rslblog.com's Record Label of the Year Midriff's got the Stuff You Need to Hear BEST OF 2009 AWARD WINNER - Already responsible for a back-catalog of albums and artists enough to make any upstart label proud, Midriff Records (Boston/NY) was far from resting on its laurels in 2009. That much became quite clear to all of us as we headed down the final stretch. Having repeatedly celebrating Midriff's releases, it became [...]
NEW TODAY - MUSIC VIDEO Someone You Should Know Ian Adams NEW MUSIC VIDEO FROM A NEW FAVORITE - Earlier this year we named Ian Adams (Boston, Ma) to our Best of Early 2009 Album List - and his shit stands up against anything that came out [...]
THE RETURN OF ROYALTY: Known far beyond the borders of Boston, highly-acclaimed for their ability to work post-punk angst into songs that focus on people stories, lost love and the mundane nature of life in the city. The Beatings are performing some of their best music to date in 2009. On Sept. 15th, they release their sixth Studio album titled, Late Season Kids on Midriff Records (a record label that is itself celebrating a tremendous year - bucking the recession trend and making big marks [...]
Thursday Night 7/16/09 ! New York's Get Help The Scene: O'Briens in Allston Get Help released one of the best Underground Albums of 2008 HERE'S A HEADSTART: Don't be too surprised you haven't yet heard of the highly talented Get Help , it's only because they don't get up this way too [...]
EXCITING NEW MATERIAL: IAN ADAMS - STAY UP LATE (avail 6/23) On Sunday, June 21st, the RSL Music Blog will release our 2009 Best-Of-First-Half List. Today's music project, Stay Up Late from Ian Adams , will certainly be on that hallowed list. Adams is a 15-year veteran of the Boston Music scene, having played most notably with Rock City Crimewave, but finds himself here the subject of a rock and roll baptism - of sorts. (We be the first to say - this is transcendent "best of" [...]
EMERGING: We receive dozens of albums each week and are offered more still digitally through email each week... but it oddly makes sense that one of our favorite new albums of 2009 comes from right here in Massachusetts... Meet Hands and Knees - this completely indie and beautifully unpolished quartet are on the verge of releasing, Et Tu Fluffy? - a vibrant eleven song album that has us hoping this music group will be around for a very long time. [...]
CD RELEASE PARTY TONIGHT: an East Coast Indie Supergroup The End of the New Country is on sale today! I will be the first to say I told you so. I have had a copy of these songs for months and love this record. ( I teased you about this in June. ) And now you can finally hear it for yourself.... [...]
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