Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards are an acoustic band on the rise with California Calling
After a few years of touring nationally and internationally, building their following one brick at a time, Laura Cortese & The Dance Clubs have released their debut album California Calling. Cortese and her Dance Cards take musical forms like folk and Celtic and reinvent them into something fresh, original while occasionally grafting them onto pop […]
The Complaints conjure wide, sweeping soundscapes on Talk To Me
The Complaints latest CD Talk To Me is loaded with fun, pop-rock ditties. This Providence, Rhode Island-based band plays a kind of 1990s influenced indie rock that makes the most of large acoustic guitar sweeps, emotive keyboard work, and a groove that can smack or simmer underneath a large tuft of upper register magic. “The […]
Shari “Shazz” Richardson shines on local stages
Southern New Hampshire cover band vocalist Shari “Shazz” Richardson is a woman of few words. The reticent crooner prefers to let her vocal work speak for itself. Richardson began her music career about seven years ago at Methuen’s New England Seafood Thursday night Karaoke sessions. When she found herself going every Thursday night, Richardson knew […]
April Buzz column, an Easter Basket full of New England’s local music offerings
The Easter Bunny is on her way. So too are the Easter baskets, Easter baskets full of bands, duos, trios, and soloists. After the candy has all been eaten and you’ve finished watching Charlton Heston’s Ten Commandments and Ted Neely in Jesus Christ Superstar, get your Judeo-Christian soul out to one of your favorite venues. […]
Katrina Marie Band ramping up, gaining wider recognition after first year
Katrina Marie Band have been making a strong impression on the southern New Hampshire/northern Massachusetts music for just over a year now. Their lead vocalist, who goes by the name, Katrina Marie, has a voice that seems born to play old school R&B and soul. Its rich, soulful, deep, and rangy. She is also a […]
Matthew Stubbs And The Antiguas make a strong and fiery impression with eponymous debut album
Matthew Stubs And The Antiguas have finally released a recorded document of their popular live band. Aside from their Monday night residency at The Sinclair in Cambridge, Massachusetts, MSATA have been dazzling audiences all over New England with their frenzied mix of rock and roll, acid blues, and explosive improvisation. Their eponymous CD finds the […]
GrandEvolution reach higher artistic level with Tell Me Why album
GrandEvolution’s latest full length in a series of several releases shows their tremendous growth as musicians and songwriters. There is a lifted, lofty, and wide open feeling to all nine tracks on this Tell Me Why album. Vocals and instruments all travel gloriously forward with ease and momentum. Its greatest strength is its fine balance […]
Boston singer-songwriter Samantha Farrell has finally arrived at the right place in her career
Singer-songwriters often take many journeys before they arrive at a point where they feel they are ready to write and record their best material. These journeys can take place both in the physical and emotional worlds of a singer-songwriter. Boston singer-songwriter has been all over the national music scene map as well as all over […]
New England music scene Buzzing with March Madness
Dear Gentle Readers, BillCopelandMusicNews.com has some very exciting music scene news for you all. March of 2018 is going to be hopping, and I mean hopping like Jack Rabbit, like Spring Heeled Jack. There is more cool shows going on this month than what is theoretically possible. I not just referring to the wild St. […]
Bees Deluxe strike musical gold once again with Voice Of Dog album
Bees Deluxe are at it again. They’ve released yet another of their “acid blues” CDs. Voice Of Dog offers a heaping bowl of more of the finely crafted, driven, explorative blues music this band has become known for. Icy cool lead guitar phrasing, elegantly rich keyboards, and a bulbous but flexible sounding rhythm section are the […]
