Burlington, VT based “Clever Girls” may not be completely made up of females, but front gal, singer and guitar slinger Diane Jean is as badass as they come in the [ … ]
Category: Reviews
Show Review: Jeffrey Foucault at The Rockwell, Somerville, MA (2/26)
Apparently, sometime Saturday night, Jeffrey Foucault and his drummer, Billy Conway, said to each other, “Hey, let’s call Dana,” and invited Dana Colley, Conway’s former Morphine bandmate, to play with [ … ]
Hail, Hail Rock n’ Roll: Ron Gallo’s Heavy Meta – Weighty, Heavy & Much Needed
A couple of years ago the roots, rock and folk realm was filled with release after release of “holy shit this is the best thing I have heard” type records [ … ]
Show Review: The Ballroom Thieves at Port City Music Hall (2/2/17)
In December, The Ballroom Thieves collected Boston Music Awards for Folk Artist of the Year, Americana Artist of the Year, and Live Artist of the Year. We can debate if [ … ]
Album Review: Tift Merritt, “Stitch of The World”
Tift Merritt’s fantastic new album, Stitch of the World, perfectly represents the depth of her voice and songwriting that so many fans have come to know and love over the [ … ]
Album Review: Cris Jacobs “Dust To Gold”
With just a couple of weeks left in the year, listening to Dust to Gold, Cris Jacobs’s second solo album has been a breath of fresh air. With sharp, economical [ … ]
Sing Sweetly: Hannah Christianson’s “Grow The World You’re Dreaming Of”
There is music that can transport you in some fashion. From the first note through about the one minute, fifteen second mark of the first track off of Hannah Christianson‘s [ … ]
For Laughs: Show Review – Hari Kondabolu (The Wilbur 11/12/2016)
“I didn’t come here to tell jokes at a funeral,” Hari Kondabolu told the sold-out crowd at The Wilbur right off the bat last Saturday night. “We’re going to laugh [ … ]
Show Review: House Concert with Brooke Annibale
Pittsburgh is holding out on us, Boston. Singer/songwriter Brooke Annibale hails from the steel city where she’s been honing a lush indie-pop sound that warrants comparisons to Norah Jones and [ … ]
Recovering in 2016: Sing the Blues
“If you get too worried, what you ought to do is sing,” say the Wood Brothers. Well, I’m worried. This has been a really hard week, following the election of [ … ]