Bill Copeland
The Still Point achieve a great deal on Full Circle album
The Still Point instrumental trio, augmented by a horn section, deliver plenty of exciting, involving numbers on their third album Full Circle. Hayes Cumming’s electric guitar phrasing finds him moving melodies around with rockin’ edge and jazzy freedom. While Cummings and the rhythm section of bass player Max Liebman and drummer Alexander Dillon play a […]
June, live New England music events heating up
June is considered the start of the summer season. The summer season officially begins in June and by then the weather has already been summer. Summer fun has always include live New England music, for anyone with a pulse. Below are just a few of New England’s live music events taking place in June. So, […]
Niki Luparelli’s Strip Zeppelin showed her audience how to Whole Lotta Love
Nobody understands better than Niki Luparelli that rock and roll is a metaphor for the pelvic thrust during sexual intercourse. Presenting her Strip Zeppelin show at The Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre last Saturday night, Luparelli combined an all woman Led Zeppelin tribute band with some of the area’s best burlesque dancers. While it does […]
Kristian Montgomery And The Winterkill Band offer greater Americana vision with A Heaven For Heretics
Kristian Montgomery & The Winterkill Band are on a roll. Their third album in as many years, A Heaven For Heretics, tackles the daunting challenge of understanding people who have been banished to the outside of mainstream America by narrow social mores created by narrow minded people. As usual, Montgomery delivers his message like a […]
True vision made Concord, NH’s Area 23 into successful music venue
Kirk McNeil, owner of popular restaurant and music venue Area 23 in Concord, New Hampshire, has spent the last seven years building up interest in his establishment and its wide array of musical offerings. All who have been there will tell you it’s a fun place to hang out and to listen to all kinds […]
Ilana Katz Katz welds her influences, fiddle, and vocal into a thick, impressive sound on In My Mind
With a few strong albums already under her belt, Boston’s blues-roots fiddle player and vocalist Ilana Katz Katz has penned 10 strong originals and one strong interpretation of a traditional number for her most powerful work yet, In My Mind. Katz fuses all of her blues, roots, and Appalachian influences into a consistent sound that […]
The Lied To’s reach higher ground with subtle grace on The Worst Kind Of New
The Lied To’s latest album The Worst Kind Of New finds the partnership of Doug Kwartler and Susan Levine sharing the thoughts and feelings they’ve experienced since losing older family members to the passage of life. With a good amount of lyrical detail and graceful expression, The Lied To’s a painterly description of what they […]
May, a month of mellow, merry New England live music
Welcome to the May Buzz column at BillCopelandMusicNew.com. As the outdoor temperatures start to rise, there is no shortage of hot, New England live music. Get out there and get some live music while we anticipate the coming summer fun and outdoor concerts and festivals. Enjoy. May 1: Jodee Frawlee; featured artist mike gs open […]
Kid Gulliver deliver pop-rock their own glorious way on Kismet
Kid Gulliver’s latest album Kismet finds these feisty Boston pop-rockers offering up 11 tracks that scream out pop-rock from different decades of that music sub-genre. Singer Simone Berk reminds of those zany girl group singers in the early 1960s. While she and the band offer a punchier pop-rock sound, the listener can still hear influences […]
The Gravel Project kicks like a mule on Many Miles Ahead
The Gravel Project consists of guitarist-vocalist Andrew Gravel, his brother, keyboardist Jordan Gravel, drummer Dave Fox, and percussionist-vocalist Brandon Mayes. New album Many Miles Ahead blends classic rock, blues, and other old school influences into a chunky block of feisty nuggets, songs that introduce themselves by kicking down the door with exuberant musical muscle. Opening […]
