Juan Zelada is heading out on a massive UK tour in March and April. Tickets go on sale on Friday. Wednesday 28th March 2012 - Northampton Roadmender Thursday 29th March 2012 - Milton Keynes Craufurd Arms, Wolverton Friday 30th March 2012 - London Bush Hall @ Shepherd's Bush Saturday 31st March 2012 - Cambridge Cornerhouse Monday 2nd April 2012 - Sheffield Soyo Tuesday 3rd April 2012 - Nottingham Bodega [...]
Last night our Jen rang in the new year with Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band in Northampton, MA. And this happened. Thank you to @goodinthestacks for capturing this moment. Happy new year!
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It's been a while since we covered Bourgeois Heroes , a little indie pop duo out of Northampton, MA (Jason) and Austin, TX (Elise). Who communicate over that long distance to create the music contained within their releases. At the time, I likened the duo to melodramatic 80s bands like Echo & The Bunnymen. On their latest single, Olé/Hola , the band slips away from those earlier sounds and holds its ground steady in indie pop. In fact, here they side more with modern underground indie pop artists like Afternoon Naps. [...]
This year I have seen Josh Ritter play eleven times in five different states. I have traveled over 5000 miles to accomplish this. Now while some might consider this to be crazy, I at least know that my fellow fans at the Ruckus would not. The first show of the year was the Valentine's Day Brawl in NYC with Cheryl and Tiffiny. And it was electrifying. It featured a massive slow dance to "Kathleen," complete with a disco ball. Need I say more? March brought John Wesley Harding/Wesley Stace's "Cabinet of [...]
There's something immediately foreboding about the music of Northampton, MA's Elaine Kahn - aka Horsebladder . Of course, a project consisting of on woman, a keyboard, and "sometimes a drum," all but screams of foreboding minimalism - but on "Winter, Worse Winter" it's more than just that. Kahn, like similar artist Julia Holter , has a knack for sounding simultaneously gorgeous and terrifying. Sparse vocals and stuttering keys meld around the wispy echos of Kahn's voice and the occasional brute-force drum beats in blunt-yet-mysterious ways. Hearing Kahn sing amidst the mostly silent racket feels almost like hearing the distant shout [...]
Endless Routine é um projeto do inglês Alex Webb (Northampton, ING). Formado em 2010, a banda já tem dois EP lançados ( Everything Is , 2010 e White Noise In Your Heart , 2011) e se prepara para o lançamento de um outro em 2012. O som é o rock industrial, com elementos da música alternativa, eletrônico e até hip-hop (influencias declaradas de Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy e Aphex Twin). Pode se dizer que o Endless Routine é uma boa aposta para o próximo ano. [...]
Another night, another great show at the Iron Horse in Northampton, Mass. This time we were treated to the sensuous and beautiful rhythmic flow of the indie hip-hop artist Ana Tijoux. Frankly, I'm still surprised her tour took her here of all places, especially how the majority of the performance's audience turned out to be mature to older white women. Not exactly the most lively and ethnically diverse crowd New England has to offer... but at least we were there to represent the under-40 crowd. The opener, A Severe Joy, plays like [...]
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If you're looking for a night of murder ballads, R-Kelly covers, neck-bass, and interpretive dance, then Sam Amidon is your man. If you're not looking for any of those things, what the fuck is wrong with you? During what has been a pretty meandering North Atlantic tour, Amidon stopped at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, MA on Monday night. He was supported by Rhode Island band Brown Bird , whose set I almost entirely missed due to a scheduling snafu. But their last song, "Cast No Shadow", was more [...]
Tipped for big things in 2011 by many end of year lists, <A href=" Brother from Slough will be on the road in May, just before they hit the festival circuit. Tickets are available now. Saturday 7th May 2011 - Oxford O2 Academy Sunday 8th May 2011 - Slough West Wing Centre Monday 9th May 2011 - Norwich Waterfront Wednesday 11th May 2011 - Aldershot West End Centre Thursday 12th May 2011 - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms [...]
frontpage_features: "Jazz fusion" (read on to learn why it's in quotes) band Kung Fu put on one hell of a great show at Northampton's fabulous Iron Horse Music Hall on Feb. 25. [...]
We recently heard Northampton, Mass band DARLINGSIDE's song Catbird Seat on another blog and realized that we had to immediately look into their catalog, which at the moment consists of a debut EP. Luckily the band had uploaded today's featured track to their Soundcloud account, and we jumped on the chance to doubly share. On their February blog posting, Darlingside humorously mentions that January was also Oatmeal Month, Radon Action Month, Skating Month, Self-Help Group Awareness Month, and National Clown College Month. Apparently they didn't want to be left behind with all of these declarations [...]
The Boxer Rebellion have announced a tour of the UK for early March, no doubt in support for their new album out next Monday, 'The Cold Still' (our review of the album posts midday today). Tickets are available now. Thursday 3rd March 2011 - Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire Friday 4th March 2011 - Leeds Cockpit 2 Saturday 5th March 2011 - Northampton Roadmender Sunday 6th March 2011 - Manchester Ruby Lounge Monday 8th March 2011 - Bristol [...]
Kate Nash has announced a tour of the UK starting on the 20th of March in Stoke and going through to the beginning of April, ending in Carlisle on the 7th of April. Tickets are available now. Sunday 20th March 2011 - Stoke-on-Trent Sugarmill Monday 21st March 2011 - Northampton Roadmender Tuesday 22nd March 2011 - Nottingham Rescue Rooms Thursday 24th March 2011 - Bournemouth Old Fire Station Friday 25th March 2011 - Portsmouth [...]
Brum's Johnny Foreigner have announced a massive tour of the UK for November and December. Tickets are now on sale. Their forthcoming EP 'You Thought You Saw A Shooting Star But Yr Eyes Were Blurred With Tears And That Lighthouse Can Be Pretty Deceiving With The Sky So Clear And Sea So Calm' is due out in November. Thursday 18th November 2010 – Reading Play Friday 19th November 2010 – Northampton Labour Club Saturday 20th November 2010 – Brighton Jam [...]
Hounslow Britpop luminaries the Bluetones will be going on their 'Golden Soul Tour' starting the 18th of November. Support will be Married to the Sea . You can watch the video for 'Carry Me Home', from their latest album 'A New Athens', released back in May. Top tune. And top album! Thursday 18th November 2010 – Liverpool Academy 2 Friday 19th November 2010 - Stockton Ku Saturday 20th November 2010 - Guildford Boilerroom [...]
I'm not one to post news items unless it's accompanied by music, and I guess to make this post not a complete loss I'll give you a song to while away your time, but I'll keep this brief. I just got an email from Adam over at Bread 'n Butter who have teamed up with NYC UFOs to release their currently free album "Newer Stations" on a limited run of 100 purple cassettes, yours for a mere $5. They can be had either by emailing breadnbutterblog@gmail.com or by seeing the band live [...]
Back towards the tail-end of June I introduced you to Kissed Her Little Sister, a lone-star gunman from Santa Monica who's making music that can't be touched by anyone else at the moment. Well last week some buddies of Jeff, the guy behind Kissed Her Little Sister, sent me their album demo "Newer Stations" at Jeff's recommendation, and as I said back to them in a subsequent email "I couldn't even make it to the one-minute mark on the first song without being thoroughly impressed". In that first minute of the first song you're bombarded with [...]
Words by Luke Morton Having read a review of their debut LP 'Our First American Friends' last year and upon hearing that they're playing in Lincoln next month, I thought it was time to check out London's indie math rockers Tubelord . This is not a move I regret. The happy singalong pop feel mixed with the minimalist synthesised indie noise is something that isn't going to grow old quickly. Sounding fresh each time I press play, Tubelord will undoubtedly be one of the biggest things on the [...]
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