Boston Local Music Festival is this weekend, streaming from Somerville venue and beyond
Live music fans aching for some semblance of pre-Covid normalcy, look no further. The Boston Local Music Festival, which is in its second year, will stream this weekend in a virtual format.
Band launches a Backyard Music Salon Series, conversation included, for audience up to 10
A veteran of PorchFest is moving location for a Music Salon Series because of the coronavirus: to the backyard.
If the year 2020 makes you feel like screaming, ‘Searching’ by Ryan Bale is way ahead of you
Talk about a song that speaks to the moment – Ryan Bale’s “Searching” is a cathartically screamed (but addictively catchy) warning in a year spent waiting for something to happen, and for which the stakes keep rising almost unbearably the more you pay attention.
Vinyl shops explain: You are never ever finding signed Taylor Swift CDs here (until she’s vintage)
The quest for an autographed copy of Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” took some local tweens into strange territory Thursday: cold-calling Cambridge stores specializing in used and vintage vinyl.
Chicken Slacks, literally the soul of the Cantab, forced to play final notes on its Thursday reign
Thursday nights at Cambridge’s Cantab Lounge have been the stuff of legend for more than 40 years – for the past 15 years, due to the residency of classic soul/funk band The Chicken Slacks. That run has come to an end.
Listen to ‘Kung Fu Steve,’ your song of summer, off Jeb Bush Orchestra’s new ‘Greatest Hits’ LP
Is it too late to nominate a summer jam? Jeb Bush Orchestra released its second full-length album July 24, called “Greatest Hits Vol. II,” and it includes a hot-weather winner in the track “Kung Fu Steve.”
Forget the clubs, for now, and get free jazz Friday on Assembly Square grass by river
With nightclubs closed, some atypical live music is making its way outdoors. Alex Lemski, who programmed improv and postmodern jazz at Inman Square’s Lilypad through his Creative Music Series, is instead promoting a free “happy hour” jazz concert Friday in Assembly Square.
Song doctor Freebo takes Passim appointments June 13 to cure whatever ails your limping tune
Stuck on a song that just won’t come together? Next week, Club Passim’s digital school of music offers a solution: a session with Freebo, the song doctor.
Club Bohemia eager to rock again below Cantab, but relief from governor looks further delayed
Club Bohemia, the rock club downstairs at the Cantab Lounge in Central Square, will reopen immediately whenever the state government lifts restrictions resulting from a coronavirus outbreak, management said – a day before the governor said an extended shutdown was likely.
Passim kicks off Keep Your Distance Festival, raising funds for performers kept off the stage
To help performers through an unprecedented time of virus-inspired social distancing, Club Passim has launched the Keep Your Distance Festival – in which musicians share one song about hope, perseverance and coping on a YouTube playlist. It raised $15,000 for performers in just a day.
