Jeff Root reflects his strange brilliance on The Wild Fandango CD
Jeff Root is a beautifully strange rock and roll singer-songwriter. On his latest CD, The Wild Fandango, the metro-west recording artist mixes numerous styles not usually combined to come up with fun, enjoyable pop rock songs. Like a film score composer, Root creates an entire mood and setting. He also likes to tell odd tales […]
Don Campbell offers loving tribute to Dan Fogelberg on double set Kites To Fly
Don Campbell has named his double disc album tribute to Dan Fogelberg Kites To Fly Celebrating The Music Of Dan Fogelberg. Campbell has said that these treasured songs were like kites he had to fly, things to be put up there and given space to breathe and fly. Kites To Fly allows the Maine singer-songwriter […]
Bird Mancini offer Latin American flair on Bird Mancini Lounge CD
Bird Mancini has found a new focus on bossa nova and other music from Brazil. The pair have always had an interest, but this time around they’ve gathered everything they’ve worked in on that genre and dedicated an album to it. Hence, Bird Mancini Lounge, a collection of jazzy, breezy songs with a distinctly South […]
James Straight And The Wide Stance kick ass on No Loitering CD
James Straight And The Wide Stance have just released this killer album of raw, punk, vintage rock and roll. No Loitering is sure to raise the group’s visibility even further on the Boston music scene. The band opens with the elastic guitar phrased “Female Trouble” by John Waters from Waters’ dark 1974 comedy of the […]
The Naked Stills show enormous potential on Cochecho CD
The Naked Stills released their debut CD Cochecho late last year, and it’s an impressive amalgam of classic rock, blues, and folk born in the 1960s American music renaissance. There is a breezy, wide-ranging sense of expression in the vocals and instrumentation in all 12 tracks. There is also a much needed freshness in this […]
Sun Jones step it up on new Sure As The Moon CD
A gentle rhythmic pattern begins the new Sun Jones album Sure As The Moon. From there, the multi-layered textures of groove, guitars, keyboards, and horns continue on their adventurous paths, some bright, shiny, and gentle, others, louder, blaring, and frenetic. There’s a lot going on with the multiple instruments in each song, and the arrangement […]
Ten Foot Polecats make the blues real on Undertow CD
Ten Foot Polecats latest album Undertow serves up more of their blues drenched sound that they squeeze out of their basic trio of vocalist-harmonica player Jay Scheffier, guitarist Jim Chilson, and drummer Chad Rousseau. Distilling blues down to its essence with only three instruments and a voice, Ten Foot Polecats come up with something more […]
Schooltree shines on beautifully strange album Rise
Schooltree’s latest album Rise is a lively, festive blend of pop-rock styles, alternative, and maybe a touch of show tune sprightliness. Lead by the singer-keyboardist Lainey Schooltree, this four piece band rocks, bops, and traipses its way through nine pieces of ear candy. Schooltree’s vast musical imagination allows her to compose some of the most […]
Thought Transfer take listeners on wild grunge ride with debut CD Light My Way
After a successful college radio campaign for their initial EP, Thought Transfer have just dropped Light My Way, a kicking full length debut of their driving grunge music. A trio, Thought Transfer keep things neat and tight. Their energy is pure dynamite, but they only use as much gunpowder needed in each song. Their intelligent […]
Tokyo Tramps outdo themselves on Rollin’ Rockland Blues Hour CD
Always one of the finest blues bands around Boston, the Tokyo Tramps have outdone even themselves on their new album Rollin’ Rockland Blue Hour. Named after the town Rockland, Massachusetts that hosts recording studio 37 ft Productions where they recorded it, the CD has a freer, looser, and more sophisticated sound structure than any of […]
