Sushi and jazz, like Pop Rocks and soda
Some duos simply do incredible things together, and you can add to that list “sushi and jazz” at The Mad Monkfish in Cambridge’s Central Square.
Happy Record Store Day! Celebrate responsibly (Checking to see if impulse buys are union made)
After all the yammering this column has yammered since January regarding a wintry Record Store Day Walk, you didn’t think we’d watch the actual Record Store Day pass without comment? It’s almost 4/20, dude! Put on your walking shoes.
Good news and bad news: Gold for orchestra, word of the Democracy Center shutting down
When spaces such as the Democracy Center disappear, opportunities for young musicians to showcase their own music their own way disappear too. That’s not how you nurture your local arts and culture community.
Regret the error? Try embracing it instead.
The next time you go to a show and find the bill not as advertised, dig it. You’re hearing an artist you’ve never heard or didn’t expect to hear, and that’s good.
Somergloom looms anew at JJ Gonson’s Once, while hip-hop toasts Boston from Middle East
JJ Gonson has a lot of irons in the fire, but local music fans know and love her best as the head of Once, an “itinerant” music venue preparing for another summertime “celebration of all things dark and heavy.”
A walk into Armageddon will delight aficionados of punk and metal with vinyl, CDs and cassettes
Underground at Armageddon lies a great selection of high-decibel soundscapes available in every format you might desire: vinyl, CD and cassette. And a few DVDs, rock ’n’ roll magazines and sundry merch for good measure.
We hear Rumblings of the rock ’n’ roll kind; Quartet of local bands big at New Colossus
The Rock & Roll Rumble announced its list of prizefighters for this year’s edition running April to May, and we followed four Bay State bands to the Empire State.
The Sinclair boycott was bottom-up leadership
Imagine that your venue is an empty vessel, free of ideology, open and available to whoever might want to use the stage. Imagining something to be the case, though, doesn’t make it so. A business is the sum of the efforts of the workers who keep it operating,
Journey to Planet Records for what awaits: Thrilling adventure of the mystery bag
With a brief uptick in the temperature for the next week or so, now is the time to seize the day, along with a clutch of LPs, CDs and tapes, at your favorite local record shops. We also look at upcoming shows and Makaya McCraven’s jazz at the Crystal Ballroom on Tuesday.
Huddled masses yearning to hear new music make for one reason a band goes the fest route
There’s a certain point in the life cycle of a local band when the itch to tangle with the Music Industry arrives and they start to eye the “industry fest” circuit.
