Grace Potter & The Nocturnals release another winning CD The Lion The Beast The Beat
Grace Potter And the Nocturnals dropped another CD loaded with Potter’s vocal heft and musical adventure. Each track is loaded with bracing guitars, driving drums, and Potters aggressive vocalizing. The Lion The Beast The Beat opens with its explosive title track, a call to releasing oneself from all kinds of built up tensions in one’s […]
Axemunkee deliver fascinating sound on Vortex CD
Lead by the speedy fingers of Catherine Capozzi, Axemunkee has been grinding out their particular brew of progressive rock on the Boston music scene for sometime now. Capozzi, who made her mark on the Boston music scene in the band All The Queen’s Men, leads Axemunkee through musical gymnastics, odd time signatures, and some aggressive […]
Fran Dagostino plays adventurous guitar on his World Music CD
Fran Dagostino’s experimental, progressive, and transcontinental CD World Music should not be overlooked by fans of adventurous explorations of song possibilities. It also features a lot of good guitar playing. World Music is Dagostino’s compilation of songs he has recorded with musicians from all over the world. Opening track “Redemption” was written by Icelandic composer […]
April Hall and her musician friends shine on Room For Two CD
April Hall has been on the Boston jazz scene for many years. Her unusually rangy, scintillating voice easily fills the open spaces on her latest CD Room For Two. Room For Two is about having two musicians on each track, Hall and the instrumentalist who plays a duet with her, one voice and one instrument, […]
Boston Blues Works Volume 1 shows off Hub’s blues talent
Boston Blues Works Volume 1 features some of the local blues scenes most exciting singers and players. There isn’t a lot of information available about why this band of local notables began this project. Their website is still under construction. Yet, the assemblage of talent has resulted in an above average album of 11 songs. […]
Lauren Passarelli creates pleasant, unique soundscapes on her new Blast Of Love CD
Lauren Passarelli just released her Blast Of Love CD, and it’s a blast of fun tunefulness and deep, thoughtful lyrics. Playing all of the music on her disc, the singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist’s greatest strength is her ability to create ambient, atmospheric soundscapes with her guitars. Just the lightest touches is all she needs to set the mood […]
Keri Anderson And The Big Lonesome show their grit on Live At Nick’s CD
Wow! What a voice! Keri Anderson must be an intimidating person if she can sing as powerfully as she does. That might be the first impression a listener gets when he first hears Anderson’s raw, earthy, powerful voice. On her live CD release, Keri Anderson And The Big Lonesome Live At Nicks, the young lady […]
Tavonna Miller serves up the soul on her new Peace, Love, And The Lack Thereof CD
Tavonna Miller released her CD Peace, Love, And The Lack Thereof late last year and it’s a boiler plate of chunky modern soul rooted in 1970s R&B. Miller possesses a deep, rich timbre and she holds a note with a funky coolness you don’t hear on today’s radio of processed music. “Whole Lotta Trouble” opens […]
A Ton Of Blues startlingly good on debut CD Crooked Avenue
After receiving a lot of notice and a lot of success on the greater-Boston music scene, A Ton Of Blues have documented their authoritative stomping blues sound on their debut CD Crooked Avenue. This four piece blues outfit take an aggressive approach to presenting many authentic forms of vintage blues music. Listening to them makes […]
Nancy Beaudette gets real on her lovely new CD Honestly
Nancy Beaudette delivers her gritty singer-songwriter CD Honestly with a grittier backing band behind her. Beaudette prefers her message to come across with pluck and verve and with some edge in her guitar. There is a funkiness in her twists and turns and edginess in her acoustic guitar picking. There are authentic country roots in […]
