Jose Ramos continues his amazing singing career in greater-Boston
Jose Ramos has been fronting his No Way Jose Band for ten years now. He’s the band leader, the musical director, the booking agent, and the lead vocalist. Ramos goes over well at his regular haunts like Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ & Blues in Brighton, Glenn’s Cool Bar and The Grog in Newburyport, The C Note […]
Rev Tor’s The Last Waltz found right emotional vibe at Bull Run concert
The Last Waltz in concert at the Bull Run in Shirley, Massachusetts went off without a hitch last night. It was a good, solid performance of all of the music from The Band’s farewell concert and the Martin Scorsese film made of that Thanksgiving Day event in 1975. There were fine dramatic details added to […]
Adam Ezra Group’s 4th Ramble benefited homeless veterans
Adam Ezra Group’s 4th Annual Ramble at Salisbury Beach last night was a benefit to raise money for homeless veterans. The concept was simple. Invite a bunch of Adam Ezra Group fans and other bands and their fans for a day long free concert. During the headlining Ezra Group set, pass around a “Bucket Of […]
Run Gazelle Run rock out with unique edge
Run Gazelle Run are a hard act to define. Their blend of electric-acoustic, singer-songwriter, progressive rock has been well documented on their self-titled debut album. Run Gazelle Run recorded their debut at The New England Institute Of Art recording studio in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is fortunate the band found such support because what they have […]
Marshfield Fair blues festival continues the magic, Roomful, Gorillas, Fat City, Soul Box, Rampage, Hard Case shined
The Marshfield Fair’s Green Harbor Roots & Blues Festival has been around for so long now that its organizer, John Hall, has it down to a science. The bands Hard Case, The Rampage Trio, Soul Box, Fat Cit Band, Gas House Gorillas, and Roomful Of Blues each got to the stage at or about their […]
Overdue Blues jam continues successful run at Riviera Cafe in Bridgewater MA
Dear Readers, I have been receiving the weekly newsletter from the Overdue Blues jam marketing people for some time now. The Overdue Blues jam takes place every Saturday afternoon at the Riviera Cafe in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. It seems to bring in a huge amount of players and music fans each week. The jam, though, sounds […]
MC3 strike gold in their own way on A Half Bubble Off Plumb
MC3’s first CD under their new band name(MC4 now that drummer-percussion “Goss” has joined) is appropriately titled A Half Bubble Off Plumb. Appropriate because everything about their music is so different than anything else out there on the Boston scene that it would have been weird if they didn’t have an eccentric album title. The […]
Woodford Way are onto something special with There & Back CD
Woodford Way have released their first full length album as a full band. There & Back offers ten tracks of mellow electric-acoustic guitar driven songs that combine the best of singer-songwriter material with solid, full band musicianship. Singer-songwriter Kyle Mangini sings with the smoothest male timbre this side of the Mississippi. Mangini has a masterful […]
Gas House Gorillas open Marshfield Fair music festival season with Aug 17 pre-festival show
Gas Gorillas will be opening the Marshfield Faire music festival season with a special pre-festival gig at Ming Dynasty on Saturday, August 17, at 9:00 p.m. “If Cab Calloway, Freddy Mercury, Illinois Jacquet and Johnny Ramone started a garage band, it might sound something like the Gas House Gorillas.” – Collin Roche, The Morning […]
Sarah Borrello off to a great start with Exit CD
Sarah Borrello’s debut CD Exit is loaded with edgy rockers based on influences like Tori Amos, Alanis Morisette and Fiona Apple. Whatever tempo she employs for a song, Borrello sings everything with an urgency that cannot be denied. She has something to get off her chest, and she uses that intensity to create sparks. Aside […]