June Buzz column; it’s getting hot in New England music scene this month
June will arrive with temperatures rising. The weather is already stating to get hot, and so is the New England music scene. Compiled below for your perusal is a list of several hot New England bands and singer-songwriters playing out this month in the hottest venues. Enjoy Father’s Day, graduations, and weddings(unless, of course, you […]
Yoko Miwa Trio get even better with Keep Talkin’
Yoko Miwa Trio’s sixth CD release Keep Talkin’ shows how she has developed her cool sense of delivery. There is more ingenuity in her arranging, playing, and interaction with her trio than on anything she’s released up to this point. Aside from her own adeptly played composition, Miwa arranges Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, The Beatles, […]
Grace Morrison gets even better with Reasons
Grace Morrison’s new CD Reasons is made up of the country roots material she is so well known for and which she is so good at delivering. Her natural timbre reminds of girlish chirps, a young voice that sings with an older person’s wisdom and experience. “Come On Rae” combines Morrison’s girlish timbre with a […]
Ashley Jordan rises to top of New England country music scene
Ashley Jordan has come a long way since she was at 13 year old aspiring singer-songwriter busking on the streets of Harvard Square. The 25 year old singer-songwriter has been featured on Boston radio’s Mix 104 which had lead to her performing in front of 40,000 people at the station’s annual MixFest music festival. Last […]
Black Cat Road offer fine document of their sound
Black Cat Road have been bringing their punchy, earthy brand of blues music to Maine venues for nine years. The band’s self-titled debut CD crackles with brisk instrumentation, soulful, raspy vocals, and true down beat grooves drenched in this traditional music. A lead guitar grinds its way into the listener’s attention on opening cut “Crow […]
New Haven prog rock band The Breakfast return to epic heights with Phantasmagoria
Connecticut prog rock band The Breakfast have released their third CD titled Phantasmagoria after a 20 year recording break since their second album, back when they called themselves Psychedelic Breakfast. This new masterwork reveals a band still capable of composing and recording gloriously epic songs that are packed with artistic flourishes of guitar, keyboards, drums, […]
