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IN THE REALM: shows this week
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 28, 2014
Paloma Faith
Monday, September 29
Middle East Downstairs
BANKS
Monday, September 29
The Paradise
Topshelf tour
A Great Big Pile of Leaves
Prawn
Field Mouse
Tuesday, September 30
Great Scott
Bee vs. Moth
Wednesday, October 1
TT the Bear’s Place
Lykke Li
Friday, October 3
House of Blues
WMBR Anniversary Show #8
Fuzzy
Blood Orange
Robin Lane and The Chartbusters
Tacklebox
Lazy Susan
Buttercup
Weeping in Fits and Starts
Friday, October 3
Middle East Down
WMBR Anniversary Show #9
The Clamdiggers (proto-Upper Crust)
Orangutang
Bulkhead
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Kudgel
Quintaine Americana
Crazy Alice
Saturday, October 4
Middle East Down
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LISTEN: Stephen Emmer
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 25, 2014
International Blue
–a stunning, sprawling cross between John Denver, as strange as that sounds, [“Let the Silence Hold You” and the heartfelt “In the Mirror Reflected”] and Tindersticks [“Blown Away” and “Untouchable”]. Broad, sweeping vocals and dark, luxurious melodies. it’s dreamy, romantic, soothing.
Stephen Emmer is an interesting dude. Born in Holland, he grew up in an Indian ashram learning to play local wind instruments during the ‘60s then learning voodoo-infused percussion in the Caribbean. Back in Amsterdam in the ‘70s, he got involved in various bands such as an experimental free jazz group, a symphonic rock group, and an avant-garde new wave electro-noise group called Minny Pops, who would be signed by the UK’s Factory Records alongside Joy Division.
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ON TOUR: All Hail the Silence
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 25, 2014
Grammy-nominated producer BT and triple platinum singer-songwriter Christian Burns’ new supergroup, All Hail The Silence, will open for legendary synthpop group Erasure on The Violet Flame North American tour starting 9/26.
The music’s inspired by 80s New Wave/ electronica such as Depeche Mode, Yaz, and The Human League.
visit All Hail the Silence Facebook page
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9/26 – Atlantic City, NJ – Borgata, The Music Box
9/27 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
9/28 – Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead
9/30 – Toronto, CAN – Danforth Music Hall
10/1 – Detroit, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
10/3 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
10/4 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
10/5 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theatre
10/8 – Nashville, TN – War Memorial Auditorium
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NEW MUSIC: Bee vs. Moth; Field Guides
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 22, 2014
Bee vs. Moth, “It Looked Good in the Showroom”
–turning the work day into a bananas explosion with grooving, invigorating tune from the band’s latest album, Shelter in Place.
BEE VS MOTH TOUR DATES:
09/26 New Orleans, LA @ The Beatnik
09/27 Atlanta, GA @ Eyedrum
09/28 Chapel Hill, NC @ The Cave
09/29 Raleigh, NC @ Slim’s Downtown
09/30 Hamden, CT @ private house concert w/ 11twelve13
10/01 Boston, MA @ TT the Bear’s Place w Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band
10/02 New York, NY @ Pianos
10/03 Pittsburgh, PA @ VIA Festival – Thunderbird Cafe
10/04 Washington, DC @ Sonic Circuits Festival
10/05 Indianapolis, IN @ The Melody Inn
10/06 Tulsa, OK @ The Soundpony
Field Guides, “Lisa Loeb Probably Never Pierced her Ears”
–mellow, wavy rock. lovely in its murkiness.
debut album Boo, Forever [Muir Woods] out November 11
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Bee vs. Moth: music review and tour dates
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 10, 2014
Cinematic arrangements. Experimental, creative jazz-pop instrumental. Engulfs you so you’re transported to another place, another time. Dreamy. Simultaneously futuristic and retro. Bee vs. Moth impressively changes tempos, styles and arrangements throughout the album using varied instrumentation including strings, saxes, brass, organ and found percussion. It’s impressive that an instrumental band can be so expressive. No words needed for this sonically superior journey to the umpteenth degree. Turn on, tune in, vibe out. I don’t listen to a lot of instrumental or jazz but I’m a long-time fan of Bee vs. Moth. The music’s en par with Henry Mancini and the Breakfast at Tiffany’s soundtrack. A decade ago, bassist Philip Moody and drummer Sarah Norris started Bee vs. Moth together and the band has since grown into a diverse, rotating cast with ambitious arrangements featured in film and television scores. Shelter in Place is Bee vs. Moth’s third studio release. “It Looked Good in the Showroom” oozes swanky pizzazz. Feel I’m in the midst of a classic film in “Machine Gun Reverie,” black and white and moody. “The Snitch” is funky keys and horns. Then there’s cheery, super jazzed “The Buffet of Knowledge.” Starting with drums and a cool riff, “Problems with Crowds” makes you feel you’re navigating the subways in a trench coat and dark shades. Auralgasm.
BEE VS MOTH TOUR:
09/19 Austin, TX @ Spider House Ballroom w/ Peter Stopschinski and Foot Patrol
09/26 New Orleans, LA @ The Beatnik
09/27 Atlanta, GA @ Eyedrum
09/28 Chapel Hill, NC @ The Cave
09/29 Raleigh, NC @ Slim’s Downtown
09/30 Hamden, CT @ private house concert w/ 11twelve13
10/01 Boston, MA @ TT the Bear’s Place w Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band
10/02 New York, NY @ Pianos
10/03 Pittsburgh, PA @ VIA Festival – Thunderbird Cafe
10/04 Washington, DC @ Sonic Circuits Festival
10/05 Indianapolis, IN @ The Melody Inn
10/06 Tulsa, OK @ The Soundpony
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New Music Videos: Zola Jesus; Black Moth
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 10, 2014
Zola Jesus, “Dangerous Days”
–grand techno-goth, scratchy wistful vocals. love it. filmed outside somewhere among waves and rocks with Nika wearing cool hoodies and long draping outfits. She reminds me a lot of Chelsea Wolfe but with dance-y beats.
forthcoming album TAIGA – out on 7 October 2014.
Black Moth, “Room 13”
–with lead singer Harriet Bevan’s aggressive cool vocals and out-there guitar riffs, this psychedelic-metal band scores with this new track. a dark, feverish video shot in the recently unlocked servants quarters of a 200-year-old haunted mansion.
Condemned To Hope [New Heavy Soungs] will be released September 15.
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ON TOUR: Paloma Faith
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 8, 2014
bluesy British singer Paloma Faith will tour the U.S. later this month and through October in advance of the release of her latest album A Perfect Contradiction due out October 7, 2014. Her music melds smoky vocals with soulful melodies.
U.S. Tour Dates:
September 26–New York, NY–Highline Ballroom
September 27–Washington D.C.–U Street Music Hall
September 29–Cambridge, MA–Middle East Downstairs
October 2–Minneapolis, MN–Triple Rock Social Club
October 4–San Diego, CA–SOMA
October 5–Los Angeles, CA–The Roxy Theatre
October 6–San Francisco, CA–Slim’s
October 8–Portland, OR–Wonder Ballroom
October 9–Seattle, WA–The Crocodile
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LIVE MUSIC: Lilla at TT the Bear’s, Cambridge on September 14
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 8, 2014
Lilla (formerly known as Lilla D’Mone) will be playing at TT the Bear’s in Cambridge on September 14, 2014 in support of her sophomore full-length, The Awakening.
Lilla moved from Portland, Ore. to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music. She recorded the album while still in school. Lilla has worked with and shared the stage with Annie Lennox, Willie Nelson, Mos Def, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Esperanza Spalding, Carol King, Stephen Marley, Ciara, Kenny G, Boyz II Men, Pussycat Dolls, Wu Tang, Trombone Shorty, Kermit Ruffins.
The Awakening is a soulful, jazzy-pop album filled with world beats, horns, funky percussion, massive and eclectic arrangements. Lilla showcases an immense vocal range from romantic and gentle on “Wake Up” to pretty and relaxed on “Talkin’ to strong, confident on “Memoirs.” Passionate, gorgeous mood music.
Also on the bill:
Bassel & The Supernaturals
The Easy Reasons
Aloud
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WMBR Pipeline! at 25 presents 50 Years of Boston Rock
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 6, 2014
Mistle Thrush
In the 90s, I was in my 20s and much more familar with the Boston music scene. My favorite 90s Boston bands were MISTLE THRUSH [I think they thanked me on an album] and FUZZY. I dated the lead singer of The Gravel Pit. I loved Orangutang and The Cavedogs. So when I heard that WMBR’s Pipeline! would be putting on all these cool shows for its 25th anniversary I got terribly excited and nostalgic. If you don’t know these bands you’re way too young and too hipster for your own good. Sorry there’s no Tribe show. loved that band too. These bands were and are the Boston music legacy.
Cavedogs
I can’t say it better than the press release:
Cambridge, MA (August 3, 2014) ¬- WMBR’s Pipeline! show (airing every Tuesday evening 8:00-10:00 with host Jeff Breeze) today announced the dates, venues, and band line-ups for the 50 Years of Boston Rock festival this fall. These bands from decades past come roaring into the present day, among them: The Remains with their stunning garage beat and The Freeborne rediscovering their psych virtuosity from the ’60s; Reddy Teddy and Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band bringing back the pre and proto-punk sounds of the ’70s; Stranglehold, The Dogmatics and the F.U’s delivering early ’80s punk proper and hardcore…and later in the decade O Positive and Big Dipper representing the burgeoning indie-rock scene; Gigolo Aunts, Fuzzy, and the Dirt Merchants nearing the millennium with their ’90s indie-pop/rock brilliance; and finally The Sheila Divine and The Charms, arriving in the 2000s, recasting pop and garage verities into their own thrilling style. This is a half century’s worth of the Boston music underground…and this festival revisits a good chunk of it!
50 Years of Boston Rock takes place from Friday, September 12 – Sunday, October 12 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, The Middle East downstairs in Cambridge, the Brighton Music Hall, the Regent Theatre in Arlington, and Cuisine en Locale in Somerville, a new ballroom-like space with a capacity of 425. There are current plans to add a 14th night to the series.
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the shows:
1.Regent Theatre—9/12
O POSITIVE
Cordelia’s Dad
The Freeborne
We Saw the Wolf
String Builder
2. Cuisine en Locale–9/13
Baby’s Arm
Miranda Warning
The Dogmatics
The Neats’ Eric Martin & friends
Stranglehold
The Turbines
3.Cuisine en Locale—9/19
Mistle Thrush
Nisi Period
The Pods
Purple Ivy Shadows
Someone & the Somebodies
Curious Ritual
4.Cuisine en Locale—9/20
Dirt Merchants
Fertile Virgin
The Gravel Pit
Honeybunch
The Sheila Divine
Evol Twin
5. Regent Theatre –9/26
The Barnies
Big Dippers’ Bill Goffrier & friends
Dumptruck
The Jigsaws
Vapors of Morphine
6. Regent Theatre—9/27
Barry & The Remains
Cardinal
The Downbeat 5
7. Brighton Music Hall—9/28
Anastasia Screamed
The Flies
The F.U.s/ Straw Dogs
Men & Volts
Bentmen
The Nervous Eaters
8. Middle East down—10/3
The Blood Oranges
Buttercup
Fuzzy
Lazy Susan
Robin Lane and The Chartbusters
Tacklebox
9. Middle East down—10/4
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Bulkhead
The Clamdiggers
Crazy Alice
Kudgel
Orangutang
Quintaine Americana
10. Paradise Rock Club –10/5
Heretix
Big City Rockers/Atlantics
The Dents
High Risk Group
Reddy Teddy
Shake the Faith
Willie Alexander & the Boom Boom Band
11. Cuisine en Locale—10/10
The Red Telephone
Hullabaloo
Green Magnet School
Luca Brasi
Orbit
Permafrost
Unnatural Axe
12. Cuisine en Locale –10/11
The Cavedogs
Dambuilders’/Gramercy Arms’ Dave Derby & friends
Drumming on Glass
Flying Nuns
Gigolo Aunts
The Natives
The Rising Storm
13. Middle East Down—10/12
The Bags
Ed’s Redeeming Qualities & The Breeders’ Carrie Bradley & friends
The Gizmos
Kenny Chambers/Electric Ears
The Underachievers
The Voodoo Dolls
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NEW MUSIC: Dads; Modern Baseball
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on September 4, 2014
Dads, “Chewing Ghosts”
emotional new track from Dads. ripping guitar fuels this anthemic, angsty song. quite good. play it a few times.
https://soundcloud.com/brixtonagency/dads-chewing-ghosts
TOUR DATES:
09/14 – Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest
09/15 – St. Louis, MO @ Fubar #
09/17 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club #
09/18 – Iowa City, IA @ Gabe’s Oasis #
09/19 – Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground #
09/20 – Denver, CO @ Riot Fest
10/17 Lansing, MI @ Mac’s Bar *
10/18 Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck *
10/19 Buffalo, NY @ Waiting Room *
10/20 New York, NY @ The Studio at Webster Hall *
10/22 Allston, MA @ Great Scott *
10/23 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church *
10/24 Washington, DC @ DC9 *
10/25 Raleigh, NC @ Kings *
10/26 Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern *
10/27 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade *
10/29-10/30 Ybor City, FL @ Pre-Fest *
10/31-11/02 Gainesville, FL @ The Fest *
11/03 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s Downstairs +
11/04 Austin, TX @ Mohawk +
11/05 Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey +
11/07 Tucson, AZ @ Gary’s Place +
11/08 Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock Live +
11/10 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction +
11/11 Los Angeles, CA @ EchoPlex +
11/12 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of The Hill +
# Dads, I Am the Avalanche
* Dads, Tiny Moving Parts, Nai Harvest
+ Dads, Tiny Moving Parts, Choir Vandals
11/14 Portland, OR @ Slabtown +
11/15 Seattle, WA @ Vera Project +
11/17 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court +
Modern Baseball, “Pothole”
pretty, melancholy song from the Phillie band. acoustic, wistful. black and white video bolsters that vibe.
TOUR DATES:
09/05 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar
09/06 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony^
09/07 – Syracuse, NY @ Lost Horizon^
09/08 – Montreal, QC @ Petit Olympia^
09/09 – Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks^
09/10 – Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck Bar^
09/11 – Detroit, MI @ The Shelter^
09/12 – Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge (Riot Fest After-Show)
09/14 – Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest Chicago
10/01 – Bloomington, IN @ The Castle Theater*
10/02 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall*
10/03 – Providence, RI @ Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel*
10/06 – Patchogue, NY @ Emporium*
10/07 – Norfolk, VA @ The Norva*
10/08 – Charlotte, NC @ The Filmore Charlotte*
10/09 – Birmingham, AL @ Zydeco*
10/10 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
10/12 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
10/13 – Tucson, AZ @ Club XS*
10/18 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst*
10/19 – Pomona, CA @ Fox Theater Pomona*
10/21 – Las Vegas, NV @ Hard Rock Live – Strip*
10/22 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound*
10/23 – Cheyenne, WY @ Atlas Theater*
10/24 – Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre*
10/25 – St. Louis, MO @ The Ready Room*
10/26 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave*
10/28 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection*
10/29 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s*
10/31 – Bethlehem, PA @ Sands Bethlehem Event Center*
11/02 – Gainesville, FL @ Fest 13
^ = w/ I Am the Avalanche, Beach Slang
* = w/ The Wonder Years, The Story So Far, Gnarwolves
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