Bill Copeland
July, when the temperature sizzles and so does the hot New England live music
July is here and so is our warmer weather. Whether hanging at the beach, going to a barbeque, belting down some cold ones, or whatever you like to do during the patriotic month, do it with some hot, live New England music playing. Below you’ll find the cream of crop among New England talent and […]
Matt York’s Gently Used is a ruggedly beautiful album
Matt York’s new Americana roots album Gently Used is loaded with perky instrumentation and chirpy, twangy vocals. York adorns his songs with such elements while structuring them into large than life portraits expressing high emotions and flinty determination. Opening cut “If You Want Love” finds York singing in a chirpy, country flavored manner. His charming, […]
Linda Marks sums up her progress with Kindness, a sort of greatest hits CD
Linda Marks’ latest CD Kindness is a greatest hits collection of sorts. She’s recorded some of these songs in the past for previous album while one song happen to be new. Some songs here have new arrangements and others have new mixes. As always, Marks’ voice is a smooth, silky sheet that glides across her […]
Stephen Peter Rodgers graces us once again with Speck On A Clover
Stepehen Peter Rodgers latest CD Speck On A Clown provides listeners with two albums in one. The first half of this CD offers gloriously mid tempo rock songs that remind of the 1970s with their sweeping, mellow sounds. The second half reminds of the folk-rock bands and singer-songwriters of the decade of Nixon Ford, and […]
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 […]
