Bird Mancini offer Latin American flair on Bird Mancini Lounge CD
Bird Mancini has found a new focus on bossa nova and other music from Brazil. The pair have always had an interest, but this time around they’ve gathered everything they’ve worked in on that genre and dedicated an album to it. Hence, Bird Mancini Lounge, a collection of jazzy, breezy songs with a distinctly South […]
James Straight And The Wide Stance kick ass on No Loitering CD
James Straight And The Wide Stance have just released this killer album of raw, punk, vintage rock and roll. No Loitering is sure to raise the group’s visibility even further on the Boston music scene. The band opens with the elastic guitar phrased “Female Trouble” by John Waters from Waters’ dark 1974 comedy of the […]
URO performed passionate rendition of Jesus Christ Superstar
The Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra just played a successful run of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Norwood Theatre. The small but classy theater in Norwood, Massachusetts was rocked from the rows to its rafters with this intense but nuanced production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera. After performing as the Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra for […]
Legendary singer-songwriter Marty Nestor continues to shine, gets better with age
Singer-songwriter Marty Nestor has had a storied career in the greater-Boston/New England music scene. Aside from racking up awards and nominations from the Boston Music Awards and other, Nestor’s previous bands played many of the popular nightspots in the 1970s and 1980s. His latest album, Saint of the Highway, showcases the culmination of the hard […]
The Slide Brothers coming to Johnny D’s on April 17
The Slide Brothers are coming to Johnny D’s in Somverville, Massachusetts on Wednesday, April 17. The group is currently touring to support their new CD. The Slide Brothers, standard bearers of the sacred steel tradition, will release their first studio album on February 19, 2013 on Concord Records. The album, simply titled Robert Randolph […]
Yoke Shire entertained a satisfied Bull Run audience on St. Patrick’s Day
Yoke Shire presented another of their Celtic music concerts last night on St. Patrick’s Day at The Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, Massachusetts. It was a foot stomping, hand-clapping, singing along good time for everybody in the large function room. The three men who make up Yoke Shire know how to throw a St. Patrick’s […]
The Naked Stills show enormous potential on Cochecho CD
The Naked Stills released their debut CD Cochecho late last year, and it’s an impressive amalgam of classic rock, blues, and folk born in the 1960s American music renaissance. There is a breezy, wide-ranging sense of expression in the vocals and instrumentation in all 12 tracks. There is also a much needed freshness in this […]
Fat Kenny Band rocked The Getaway
The Fat Kenny Band is one of those well kept secrets that you only stumble upon by accident or word of mouth. The four piece probably doesn’t want to play out too far from home. Yet, the four piece hard rock cover band rocked the private club The Getaway in Manchester, New Hampshire last Saturday […]
Sun Jones step it up on new Sure As The Moon CD
A gentle rhythmic pattern begins the new Sun Jones album Sure As The Moon. From there, the multi-layered textures of groove, guitars, keyboards, and horns continue on their adventurous paths, some bright, shiny, and gentle, others, louder, blaring, and frenetic. There’s a lot going on with the multiple instruments in each song, and the arrangement […]
Ten Foot Polecats make the blues real on Undertow CD
Ten Foot Polecats latest album Undertow serves up more of their blues drenched sound that they squeeze out of their basic trio of vocalist-harmonica player Jay Scheffier, guitarist Jim Chilson, and drummer Chad Rousseau. Distilling blues down to its essence with only three instruments and a voice, Ten Foot Polecats come up with something more […]
