Opinion: Boston Globe fails greater-Boston music scene
I recently made a rather shocking discovery about the music page editor for the Boston Globe. He doesn’t know anything about the music scene that his arts department has assigned him to cover. This person is responsible for assigning journalists to cover emerging new artists, events, CD releases, and breaking news stories in the greater-Boston […]
Lespecial get even better on Cheen album
What can be said about a band like Lespecial who can combine their prog rock discipline with funk sensibilities? Crazy is what they are. In a good way. Their latest album, Cheen, is a fun mix of disciplined musicianship and original ideas that rock right out. This disc offers many excellent musical passages in which […]
May Buzz column; spring has sprung with hot music
Happy Spring, everybody. That might sound sarcastic, considering our “spring” season has really sucked so far. What to make of this cold, wet, and still snowy weather? Who knows? The April showers have not sprung May flowers but there is plenty of warmth rising up from the roads and streets of New England, those roads […]
Jennifer Mitchell Band gaining greater recognition
Jennifer Mitchell Band took the local country and rock scene by storm after they debuted at the Hungry Buffalo in Loudon, New Hampshire two years ago. Now, Jennifer Mitchell and her band play at least 10 gigs a month in southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. Mitchell relocated to southern New Hampshire from upstate New […]
The Lied To’s move to a much higher artistic level with The Lesser Of Two Evils
The Lied To’s sophomore album The Lesser Of Two Evils offers more gritty musicianship and more of a forward stomp than their 2015 debut disc. Still solid with their singer-songwriter material, this duo of Doug Kwartler and Susan Levine still blend their voices like a charm amidst their new flurry of flinty instrumentation. Listeners will […]
Fordham Road make prog rock cool again with debut CD
Fordham Road have just released their eponymous debut album, and it’s loaded with killer material. This prog rock band out of Boston mesh influences like Rush, Genesis, Weather Report and other complex bands with some pop elements here and there. This is the kind of prog rock that could find its way into any listener’s […]
Diamond Edge comes up with strong debut The Edge Of The Stone
Do you ever wonder whatever happened to early 1980s tight playing hard rock bands like April Wine, Triumph, Red Rider, and Golden Earring? Most of us aren’t sure either. But, their DNA lives on in numerous local bands whose members came of age during their heyday. Plaistow, New Hampshire based Diamond Edge is one such […]
Roots Of Creation have brilliant fun with Grateful Dub tribute album; Grateful Dead reimagined as reggae
Leave it to Maine’s reggae band Roots Of Creation to make a dub tribute album to the music of The Grateful Dead. Capturing the spirit and the talent of the Dead while placing it in the context of reggae music was no mean feat. Roots Of Creation, with some exciting guest stars in tow, have […]
Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards are an acoustic band on the rise with California Calling
After a few years of touring nationally and internationally, building their following one brick at a time, Laura Cortese & The Dance Clubs have released their debut album California Calling. Cortese and her Dance Cards take musical forms like folk and Celtic and reinvent them into something fresh, original while occasionally grafting them onto pop […]
