Sometimes you listen to something and it just makes you feel good. It washes a feeling of tenderness over your body, it has some sort of sincerity and a calming [ … ]
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Show You Should Know: Brendan Boogie and the Broken Gates Album Release (5/14 Lizard Lounge)
This isn’t something I think that he knows, but when I first came back to Boston, Brendan Boogie was one of the artists around town that I looked up to [ … ]
First Listen: Robbie Fulks “Aunt Peg’s New Old Man”
Singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks has been revered as a treasure of sorts. Self proclaimed as having the “soul of a country singer and the mind of a vaudevillian” he is a [ … ]
Hit The Ground Running: An Interview With Jeanne Jolly
The Boston Globe referred to her as “One of contemporary music’s best-kept secrets…” and with her new release A Place To Run being infused with a grittiness and soulful backbone [ … ]
A Goddamn Supernova: Margo Price’s “Midwest Farmer’s Daughter” Shines
The first time I heard Margo Price’s voice I fell in love. There was something so exciting about what this gal was doing and the power with which she delivered [ … ]
Peep This: Emily Baker With Rachel Sumner and Kathleen Parks “Marry Me”
Something I find so great about the Boston music community is when people overlap bands and projects. Play together, share one another’s songs and keep the love spreading outwards. So, [ … ]
Peep This: New Video For “Swells” from Virginia-based Folk/Rock Outfit Wylder
There is something I have to say that on certain days I really love about the whole “romping, percussive based folk-roots revolution”. Its not an every day thing for me [ … ]
Catching Up With: Riley Pinkerton
I always love when a new artist comes my way by suggestion of another. Ian Fitzgerald introduced me to Riley Pinkerton‘s music recently and I have been spinning her latest [ … ]
Venue Highlight: Lizard Lounge (Cambridge, MA)
There is something almost timeless about Cambridge’s best bar in a basement music venue. I mean, there is a reason we hosted the first 2 RLR anniversary shows there. You [ … ]
Listen to this: Spotted Tiger “Cloud Year”
Spotted Tiger is an all-star band of sorts, comprised of extreme talent who so often lend their art to others. Laurence Scudder is probably the most exciting player to every [ … ]