Booty Vortex made their first performance at Acton Jazz Cafe
Booty Vortex is simply a high energy dance band. There is nothing on the level of high achieving artistic endeavors. Booty Vortex only want you to have some fun, and they provide the soundtrack. A review can’t really consider this band on the finer points of art. You have to rate this band using your feet, as in how often they got you on them to move them. That is where Booty Vortex showed themselves to be groove kings and queens.
Diamond Dogs flesh out Bowie material at Dante’s Firefly’s in Quincy
There are not too many David Bowie tribute bands around. Bowie recorded music that is difficult to play in concert. There is orchestration without pretension. Drama without send up. Uniqueness amidst familiar idioms. A south shore tribute band Diamond Dogs found the proper balance Bowie always maintained between rock and roll idioms, his own unique […]
Hurrican Alley returned to Whippersnappers in Londonderry NH
Live Review: Hurricane Alley returned to Whippersnappers in Londonderry NH; served up the fun By Bill Copeland BillCopelandMusicPress Hurricane Alley is a cover band that plays a broad cross section of classic rock material from the late 1960s to around the early 1980s. Band leader, Dave Shaheen, sings lead vocals on about half the songs […]
Jen Kearney And The Lost Onion continued their Toad residency with wild funk abandon
Jen Kearney And The Lost Onion continued their Toad residency with wild funk abandon last night By Bill Copeland BillCopelandMusicPress Jen Kearney and the Lost Onion slammed the funky, jazzy, Latin rhythms home at the Toad in Cambridge, Massachusetts last night. Toad is a small room, but it is long from front to its stage […]
Village Trestle & Wantu Blues Jams strike gold with Lisa Marie & Sweet Willie D and Leather And Lace Beauty Contest
Live Review: Village Trestle & Wantu Blues Jams strike gold with Lisa Marie & Sweet Willie D and Leather And Lace beauty contest. By Bill Copeland BillCopelandMusicNews Today’s July 4th Wantu Blues Jam at The Village Trestle was one of the smoothest run jams I’ve ever seen at the Village Trestle. Located in Goffstown, […]
Ralph’s Diner hosts fun bands Only At Night, Huck, The Lights Out, Hey Now Morris Fader
An original rock venue, Ralph’s Diner has a stage in it upstairs room that faces a dance floor and a bar. The funky room has graffiti and murals on its walls and many curios decorations, like an old fashioned barber shop tubular sign with undulating red stripes inside. Last Saturday night was coup for the […]
DreadRocks pumps up the reggae sound maun, at Latitude 43 in Gloucester
Some groups have a way of becoming a must see. That is always true of bands who are talented and who are doing something unique. DreadRocks fits this description. If you can imagine an amalgamation of roots rock guitar melded to reggae beats and rhythms, then you’ll have an idea how this band rolls. Musicians […]
The Throwdown Blues Band like to turn up the intensity; entertain enrapt Tap audience
The Throwdown Blues Band like to turn up the intensity; entertain enrapt Tap audience By Bill Copeland BillCopelandMusicNews The Throwdown blues band hit The Tap in Haverhill, Massachusetts last night, and they kept the dinner crowd focused on them all night long. This band will never be one of those acts that gets ignored while […]
Lickity Split host BBQ Under The Fireworks blues jam July 3rd
Lickity Split host BBQ Under The Fireworks blues jam July 3rd on South Shore beach; fireworks erupting while band plays on By Bill Copeland BillCopelandMusicNews This blues jam has been hosted by Satch Romano’s blues band Lickity Split for the last three years. About three hundred plus people showed up last night to party with […]
Live Review: Track 44 played solid blues to an outdoor deck audience at The Tap in Haverhill, MA
Track 44 played solid blues to an outdoor deck audience at The Tap in Haverhill, Mass last night By Bill Copeland BillCopelandMusicPress Playing the outdoor deck at The Tap in Haverhill is usually a pleasant gig for any blues band. Last night was a bit of a challenge for Track 44. Their regular rhythm section […]
