Angelo Mullen discusses his bass guitar sounds
Angelo Mullen has been plying his bass skills in northern New England for decades. Mullen is not a huge gear head, but he does have a few devices in his bag of tricks and does like to talk about them. These days, Mullen works as a substitute fill in bass player. He uses two axes, […]
Gene Sibley masters the Roland Guitar Synthesizer
Technology allows musicians to do a lot of things these days. The guitar synthesizer is one tool that lets a guitar player multi-task on stage. Gene Sibley, of the Gene Sibley Group in Dover, New Hampshire, has been working with Roland Guitar Synthesizers for 20 years. “I use a Roland guitar synthesizer and a couple […]
Bass player Bob Healey details his live rig
Rhode Island’s Bob Healey is a bass player who takes his low end possibilities quite seriously. Healey, of Rhode Island’s elite cover band 5 Flavor Discount and hair metal outfit Pozer, uses a few cool things to get the tones he needs. While Pozer is a hair metal band that only requires straight-forward bass, 5 […]
April Hall and her musician friends shine on Room For Two CD
April Hall has been on the Boston jazz scene for many years. Her unusually rangy, scintillating voice easily fills the open spaces on her latest CD Room For Two. Room For Two is about having two musicians on each track, Hall and the instrumentalist who plays a duet with her, one voice and one instrument, […]
Venues that don’t suck
Musicians and music fans are always asking me about the places I go to to review live music. Bands and their fans cannot possibly find time to check out every venue out that’s out there. Some never move beyond their local watering holes. Most don’t want to go a place for the first time until […]
Joey Vellucci discusses his long, impressive career
Guitarist Joey Vellucci has kept himself busy on the New England music scene for 30 years, gigging almost every weekend. He also composes scores for film and television. Yet, the jazz-rock-pop-blues-funk-OK, he plays everything, artist has always flown under the radar, never attracting the attention of the press. Until now. Vellucci discussed his intriguing career […]
Kim Riley dominates southern New Hampshire music scene
Kim Riley has been one busy lady lately. She is a member of the newly reformed Napoleon In Rags, a Bob Dylan tribute band. Aside from a monthly gig at J’s Tavern in Milford, New Hampshire, Rags is hosting a Dylan birthday bash for Dylan’s 71st. “We’ve got just so many people on the bill,” […]
Boston Blues Works Volume 1 shows off Hub’s blues talent
Boston Blues Works Volume 1 features some of the local blues scenes most exciting singers and players. There isn’t a lot of information available about why this band of local notables began this project. Their website is still under construction. Yet, the assemblage of talent has resulted in an above average album of 11 songs. […]
Introducing singer-songwriter-piano player Tanya Darling
Once upon a time she was a busy singer in the Boston music scene. Until life intervened. Tanya Darling recently jumped back into the music scene. In last January of this year she picked up guitar and started writing about her new life and taking her songs to open mics. Darling played the Boston circuit […]
Jeff Buckridge discovers the ukulele; plays out in North Shore with Jeff Buckridge’s Uke Joint
Jeff Buckridge recently experienced a major revelation in his life. The Boston Horns guitarist discovered the joys of ukulele playing while on a vacation in Hawaii. Now, several months later, has a band called Jeff Buckridge’s Uke Joint that’s been playing gigs in the North Shore area of Massachusetts, during nights off from The Boston […]
