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on tour: Dorothy
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on July 8, 2016
07/13 – The Westcott Theater – Syracuse, NY
^ w/ Halestorm
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show preview: Living Colour at Blue Hills Bank Pavillion on July 19, 2016 with Jane’s Addiction and Dinosaur Jr.
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on June 30, 2016
Living Colour will play five dates this summer with Jane’s Addiction and Dinosaur Jr. including Boston, Philadelphia and Cleveland. The band is working on a new album due out in early 2017. Living Colour formed in 1984 in New York. The band mixes rock, funk, jazz, hip hop and alternative rock to full effect with unique arrangements and supercharged energy. The band creates music with strong messages, Living Colour won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1990 for “Cult of Personality.” 1990’s sophomore album Time’s Up earned the funk rock band a second Grammy.
Living Colour is:
Corey Glover [vocals]
Vernon Reid [guitar]
Doug Wimbish [bass]
Will Calhoun [drums]
discography:
Vivid (1988)
Time’s Up (1990)
Stain (1993)
Collideøscope (2003)
The Chair in the Doorway (2009)
Shade (2016)
Living Colour with Jane’s Addiction and Dinosaur Jr. at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion on July 19, 2016. tickets $29.50-$59.50.
venue info:
Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
290 Northern Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02210
617-728-1600
TOUR DATES:
July 19 – Blue Hills Bank Pavilion* – Boston, MA
July 20 – The Fillmore* – Philadelphia, PA
July 22 – Freedom Hill Amphitheatre* – Sterling Heights, MI
July 23 – Jacobs Pavilion @ Nautica* – Cleveland, OH
July 25 – Murat Theatre @ Old Nat’l Centre* – Indianapolis, IN
August 27 – Skokie’s Backlot Bash – Skokie, IL
August 28 – LC/Brains/FBone Superjam @ AfroPunk Festival – Brooklyn, NY
September 23 – Music Tastes Good Festival – Long Beach, CA
*denotes performance w/ Jane’s Addiction + Dinosaur Jr.
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on tour: Deerhoof
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on June 21, 2016
Deerhoof is on tour this summer. The tour starts tomorrow in Brooklyn and ends in August in Dallas. The band’s latest album The Magic [Polyvinyl] is out June 24. Of the new album, singer/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki, said: “I joined Deerhoof a week after I arrived in San Francisco from Japan. I hopped on a MUNI bus to have a first meeting but got off at a wrong stop. I was lost and confused. They found me on a dark street corner after I called for help from a pay phone. Since then my adventure expanded. Deerhoof is a vehicle with four powered wheels that takes me through forest, desert and buildings. My life is adventure!”
tour dates:
06.22.16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel ^
06.23.16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel #
06.24.16 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall #
06.25.16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
06.26.16 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar *
07.07.16 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall $
07.08.16 – Vancouver, BC @ Fortune $
07.09.16 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s $
07.12.16 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall $
07.13.16 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom $
07.14.16 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah $
07.15.16 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress $
07.16.16 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom $
07.18.16 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge $
07.19.16 – Boise, ID @ Radio Boise Series (Neurolux) $
08.03.16 – Denver, CO @ The Hi Dive ^^
08.04.16 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room ^^
08.05.16 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall ^^
08.06.16 – Milwaukee, WI @ Mad Planet ^^
08.08.16 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Hi Fi ^^
08.09.16 – Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlie’s ^^
08.10.16 – Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge ^^
08.11.16 – Athens, GA @ Athens Popfest (Georgia Theatre)
08.12.16 – Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall ^^
08.13.16 – New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa ^^
08.14.16 – Houston, TX @ Walter’s Downtown **
08.16.16 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk **
08.17.16 – Dallas, TX @ Trees **
^ w C Spencer Yeh & Ava Luna
# w/ Kill Alters & Ed Balloon
* w/ Kill Alters
$ w/ Skating Polly
^^ w/ Cowtown
** w/ Cowtown & Tele Novella
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show preview: Modern English at Middle East Downstairs Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on June 7, 2016
While at the Trashcan Sinatras show last month at the Middle East Upstairs, I overheard a guy, while perusing the posters for upcoming shows, say: “Modern English. There’s a one-hit wonder.” Is the band a one-hit wonder? Not really. Modern English just never hit that big in the United States. Sure, no 80s party would be complete without a spin of “Melt with You” but that track never hit the top ten. Honestly I’ve never adored “Melt with You” but I’ve been listening to the band’s earlier material and its superb. I expect to me fully engulfed in gorgeous gloominess tonight. The band formed in Colchester, Essex, English in 1979.On its first album Mesh & Lace (1981), Modern English possesses a similar sound and energy, favoring dark deep beats and lyrics, to other post-punk 80s artists such as Echo & the Bunnymen and Bauhaus. 1990’s Pillow Lips embraces a gentler, more upbeat sound. Modern English will release a new album soon. Contribute via Pledge Music.
Modern English is:
Robbie Grey [vocals]
Gary McDowell [guitar, vocals]
Michael Conroy [bass, vocals]
Stephen Walker [keyboards]
Discography
Mesh & Lace (1981)
After the Snow (1982)
Ricochet Days (1984)
Stop Start (1986)
Pillow Lips (1990)
Modern English–Tuesday, June 7, 2016– at The Middle East Downstairs.
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on tour: The Doubleclicks
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on May 26, 2016
Portland indie-folk duo The Doubleclicks will be heading out on tour this summer. The tour begins on June 14 at Dungeons and Crafts in Fort Collins, Colorado and heads to Minneapolis, Norfolk, Va., New Orleans, Austin and Seattle– 30 dates in all. The sister act plays two shows in Somerville on June 25, 2016– one day show and then Thunder Road at night. Multi-instrumentalists Angela and Aubrey Webber will perform new and older songs including their 2015 album President Snakes. The Doubleclicks play smart, geeky feminist songs about bullying, cats, anxiety. It’s as if Phoebe from Friends had a sister!
TOUR DATES:
6/14 – Fort Collins, CO at Dungeons and Drafts with Danielle Ate the Sandwich
6/15 – Iowa City, IA at The High Ground Cafe
6/16 – Minneapolis, MN at Fantasy Flight Games Center
6/17 – Milwaukee, WI at 42 Ale House
6/18 – Madison, WI at Pegasus Games
6/19 – Chicago, IL at Wanderers’ Refuge
6/20 – St Louis, MO at House Concert! Email stlouis@thedoubleclicks.com to RSVP!
6/21 – Louisville, KY at Oldham County Public Library
6/22 – Cincinnati, OH at Gateway Games & More
6/24 – Toronto, ON at Round Venue
6/25 – Boston, MA at Thunder Road (21+)
6/25 – Boston, MA at Comicazi
6/26 – Philadelphia, PA at Steel City Coffeehouse
6/27 – New York, NY at Babycastles with Sammus & Jonathan Mann
6/28 – Brooklyn, NY at The Way Station (21+)
6/29 – Vienna, VA at Jammin’ Java
6/30 – Norfolk, VA at Atlantis Comics and Games
7/1 – Hillsborough, NC at Mystery Brewing with Juliana Finch
7/2 – Atlanta, GA at Red Light Cafe with Juliana Finch
7/3 – Orlando, FL at The Geek Easy with Marc with a C
7/5 – New Orleans, LA at +1 Gaming
7/6 – Austin, TX at Dragon’s Lair
7/7 – Houston, TX at 8th Dimension Comics & Games
7/8 – Dallas, TX at Opening Bell Coffee
7/10 – Phoenix, AZ at Imperial Outpost Games
7/19 – Portland, OR at Doug Fir Lounge (21+) with Danielle Ate the Sandwich
7/24 – Tualatin, OR at Tualatin Public Library
7/29 – Seattle, WA at Wayward Coffeehouse
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new music and tour: Holly Miranda
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on May 13, 2016
Holly Miranda, “No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross” (Sufjan Stevens Cover)”
–haunting and exquisite cover. Holly Miranda definitely embraces the happy sad in music. Her EP Party Trick [Dangerbird] is out today May 13, 2016 It features covers of Morphine (already sad), Bon Iver (mellow) and Drake.
Holly Miranda explained: “The title of this album comes from Tegan Quinn saying I could take any song and ‘make it sad’ she said it was my ‘Party Trick.’ Some of these covers are new, but others I’ve done throughout the years. It’s just what I do for fun. Doing covers is such a great way to learn the way someone else constructs a song, if you can break that down and find your own voice in it, it can be something really interesting.”
tour dates:
06.04 – New York, NY @ Randall’s Island Park Governors Ball
06.08 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott
06.09 – Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Artspace
06.10 – Hudson, NY@ Club Helsinki
06.11 – Providence, RI @ Columbus Theatre
06.12 – Northampton, MA @ Parlor Room
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show preview: Braids at Great Scott, Boston on May 31, 2016
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on May 7, 2016
Braids is: Raphaelle Standell-Preston [guitar, keyboards, lead vocals]; Austin Tufts [drums, vocals]; Taylor Smith [bass, guitar, percussion, malletkat, vocals]
from: Montreal
sound: dreamy, shoe-gaze, experimental pop
Companion EP [Arbutus Records] will be out May 20th
Raphaelle Standell-Preston quote an essay for Pitchfork about how songwriting helps her cope with past sexual abuse.
TOUR DATES
05.06 – Lawnya Vawnya Festival – St Johns, Newfoundland
05.14 – FORM Arcosanti Festival – Arcosanti, AZ
05.25 – Swedish American Hall – San Francisco, CA
05.26 – Echo – Los Angeles, CA
05.27 – Valley Bar – Phoenix, AZ
05.31 – Great Scott – Boston, MA
06.01 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
06.02 – Comet Ping Pong – Washington, DC
06.03 – Rough Trade – Brooklyn, NY
06.04 – Ritual – Ottawa, ON
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music news: Joan Baez and Mary Chapin Carpenter at CITI Wang Center on October 8, 2016
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on April 22, 2016
Joan Baez
Joan Baez’s career began in the late 1950s at the famed Club 47 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She performed at the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959. She released her first LP, Joan Baez, for Vanguard Records in 1960.Baez’s most recent album, Day After Tomorrow, carries on Joan’s tradition of serving as a lightning rod for a wide array of songwriters, with material by Steve Earle, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and others, and was nominated for a Grammy. She’s released 24 albums in her career.
Baez marched on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement with Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired Vaclav Havel to fight for a Czech Republic, and participated in two of the early Amnesty International tours – the Conspiracy of Hope tour in 1986 and the Human Rights Now! tour in 1988. She brought the Free Speech Movement into the spotlight at Berkeley, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, then forty years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war. Joan Baez is a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and recipient of Amnesty International’s prestigious Ambassador of Conscience award.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter has recorded 14 albums and sold over 14 million records. Hits include “Passionate Kisses” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her.” She has won five Grammy Awards (with 15 nominations), two CMA awards, two Academy of Country Music awards for her vocals and is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Most recently, in 2014, Carpenter released her acclaimed debut orchestral album, Songs From The Movie. Arranged and co-produced by six-time Grammy winner Vince Mendoza, the record is comprised of ten previously recorded compositions including “Between Here and Gone” and “Come On Come On.” Carpenter has performed alongside the New York Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the London Concert Orchestra, the L.A. Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra among many others. At this show, Mary Chapin Carpenter will perform songs from new album The Things That We Are Made Of (Lambent Light Records) out May 6, 2016. She will be joined by pianist Jon Carroll and guitarist Johnny Duke.
Tickets on-sale Friday, April 22, 2016 at 10am.
Reserved seat tickets are $43.75 -$98.75 (includes $3.75 facility fee) and go on sale Friday, April 22 at 10:00 AM without service charges at the Wang Theatre box office located at 270 Tremont Street. Tickets may also be ordered online starting at 10:00 AM at Ticketmaster or by phone by calling 800.982.2787. Applicable service charges will apply. To order tickets via TTD, dial 800.943.4327. Normal box office hours are 12:00 Noon – 6:00 PM Tuesday – Saturday. The Wang box office accepts all major credit cards.
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new video and tour dates: Elliphant
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on April 15, 2016
Elliphant, “Spoon Me” (feat. Skrillex)
Stockholm singer Elliphant reminds me of M.I.A. and Ellie Goulding. Upbeat, infective song with a blend of world beat/hip hop and electro-pop. What a beautiful video shot in Pakistan and starring three women—Veena, Saima and Zaini—who Elliphant met in Islamabad. Aisha Linnea & Shahbaz Shigri directed the mystical video. “Spoon Me” is off Elliphant’s new album Living Life Golden.
TOUR DATES:
04/29 – Rock & Roll Hotel – Washington, DC
04/30 – Marlin Room at Webster Hall – New York, NY
05/01 – The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA
05/02 – Coda – Philadelphia, PA
05/04 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL
05/06 – Barboza – Seattle, WA
05/07 – Alexander Gastown – Vancouver, Canada
05/08 – Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR
05/10 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
05/11 – The Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA
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music preview: DCTV at O’Brien’s Allston on Sunday, April 17
Posted by Amy Steele in Music on April 11, 2016
French musician and singer Lola G met screenwriter/guitarist James Greer at a Hollywood party three years ago. They began talking about music and soon formed what would become DCTV. Both Lola G. and James Greer are multi-instrumentalists. Lola G sings in French on the duo’s latest album confusion moderne which is out now. The result is a combo of fuzzy garage band rock/ French pop/ 60s ephemera/ fuzzy arrangements. There’s even a cover of “L’Accord Parfait” from one of my favorite 90s bands Autour de Lucie.
should be a fabulous live show.
Check out DCTV at O’Brien’s on Sunday, April 17, 2016.
rest of the tour:
04.18 – The Fire – Philadelphia, PA
04.19 – Happy Dog – Cleveland OH
04.20 – Lager House – Detroit, MI
04.21 – Melody Inn – Indianapolis IN
04.22 – The Void – Bloomington, IN
04.23 – Tree Bar – Columbus, OH
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