Bill Copeland
Gamma Rage impress with intense debut album
Rhode Island’s hard rocking glam band Gamma Rage recently emerged from the studio with this frenzied, energetic eponymous debut album. Singer Malyssa BellaRosa’s beautiful and terrifying vocal opens the album with “Gloom,” a song part classic rock, part goth, and part whatever this band’s creativity reaches out toward and pulls in. BellaRosa burns through this […]
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 […]
November, warming up with hot New England live music
You might see a patch of snow on the ground this morning. It’s a hazy shade of winter. November is one of those transitional months. It’s a little bit colder than early fall. It’s not as wintry as December, knock on wood. You can always warm up this November by catching some New England live […]
Gordon Thomas Ward brews wonders Walking On The Wire
Maine’s Gordon Thomas Ward is one of those singer-songwriters whose ability flesh out his sound with a full band makes one question whether singer-songwriter is an adequate description. His multi instrumentalist talents include acoustic and electric guitar, baritone guitar, organ, mellotron and a a lot more. He can therefore place a distinctly personal accompaniment around […]
Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and film actor embodied true American fiber
Wow! Where do I begin? He wrote some of the most memorable landmark songs of all time. Everyone knows his “Me And Bobby Mcgee” because the enormity of Janis Joplin’s talent immortalized it. Everyone from Johnny Cash to Shawn Mullins recorded his “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” “For The Good Times” sums up loss and sorrow […]
October, celebrating fall colors, Octoberfest, and Halloween with New England live music
October, possibly one of our funnest months, combines fall activities, Octoberfest beer blasts, and Halloween festivities. Of course, October is most beautiful in New England. Below are some live New England music offerings to help you celebrate the colorful leaves, the beerfests, and that spooktacular night of Halloween. October 1: Pat Foley; featured artist at […]
