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Run Gazelle Run rock out with unique edge

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 […]

The Last Waltz coming to The Bull Run in Shirley MA on August 25th

The Last Waltz coming to The Bull Run in Shirley MA on August 25th

Rev Tor Band and Music in Common join forces to re-create The Band’s classic concert film The Last Waltz, live at Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, MA on Sunday, August 25, 2013 (Shirley, MA) July 25, 2013 – Music in Common and the Rev Tor Band announce a special live performance of The Band’s classic […]

Wachusett Valley Music Festival scheduled for September 14, Amy Ray headlines

Wachusett Valley Music Festival scheduled for September 14, Amy Ray headlines

The Wachusett Music Series and the Wachusett Valley Music Festival (formerly, Wachusett Valley Folk Festival) has brought world-class musicians to its intimate, inspirational, often sold-out events. It’s probably safe to say that many folks view the event as The Little Festival That Could. Their annual festival (voted one of The op Summer Festivals in New […]

Music journalist discusses his favorite beers, ales, meads, and wine

Music journalist discusses his favorite beers, ales, meads, and wine

When people offer to buy me a beer or drink at a show, I usually turn them down. That’s not because of any journalistic ethical clause about not accepting gratuities. If your music is lame, I simply won’t write about it. I usually order only a Coca Cola at venues. I need to remain clear-head, […]