December, a time to warm up with hot New England live music
December: holidays, parties, festivities, and community events this Christmas and Hanukkah season. Augmenting all that fun is live New England music. Below are some favorite local musicians and favorite local venues to enjoy the holidays and to ring in the New Year. December 1: Arthur James; Hosting Blues Jam; Riley’s Place; 29 Mont Vernon Street, […]
Johnny Hoy And The Bluefish blow the roof off The Fallout Shelter with down and dirty blues
Johnny Hoy And The Bluefish dropped their latest blues oriented album onto the greater-Boston/New England. Only this time around it’s a live album. Blues Live From The Fallout Shelter. Playing a lot of traditional blues numbers, Hoy and his Bluefish serve up a fun party vibe that might make some wish they hadn’t missed this […]
Sado-Domestics get even better on Camouflage
Sado-Dometics have released another winsome, intriguing album, Camouflage, based on words used in stories by writer T.J. Gerlach Although their writing experiment is interesting, Sado-Domestics accomplish another major task. Their unique sound on this album raises their artistry, their status, and it should, on this album, bring them more recognition and a wider audience. Opening […]
NH country artist Jennifer Mitchell excels on gritty, flinty Still I Rise
Rough and tumble New Hampshire country and western artist Jennifer Mitchell just released her gritty, flinty album Still I Rise. Loaded with true country feeling and idioms, Mitchell makes her country strong. Opening cut “The Red Pick Song (Ride Or Die)” finds the Granite State country lady singing with a seriously good timbre for this […]
Anne Stott moves to higher artistic expression on Watershed Synapse Experience
Anne Stott’s latest album, the operatic rocker Watershed Synapse Experience, builds a variety of song structure around her perfectly smooth, sweet vocal. Sometimes the music charges forward briskly. Other times it come straight down like a hard rain. If we take it song by song it becomes a sensation of mini works each with their […]
