I know I post about this years ago... but I've been on a Morphine kick lately, especially after seeing the Twinemen a week ago. I like music that is different and not too widely copied, yet still very musical. This is partly why I like The Dresden Dolls so much. This is also why I like Morphine and The Twinemen ( Read more... )

About a week ago I went to go see The Twinemen at the Hi-n-Dry studio in Cambridge. What a venue! I'd go there to see nearly anyone, just because of how intimate a concert it was. I'm writing this post mainly because while channel surfing earlier, I flipped past a station that described Agganis Arena as an 'intimate 6000 person venue'. How the ( Read more... )

Many many years ago, my friend Tom introduced me to 2 different bands, Catherine Wheel and Stone Roses. I ended up buying an album by both of them that fateful day (Second Coming by the Stone Roses, and Happy Days by The Catherine Wheel). To be honest, I'm surprised he never tried to get some sort of kick back from Newberry Comics for all the ( Read more... )

After yesterday's post about country music, I've switched gears entirely and been listenning to some true classic rock (Joe Jackson), pop rock (Barenaked Ladies), and 'I'm_not_certain_how_to_categorize_this' (Entrain (reggae?) and DAG (funk ( Read more... )

No... I won't listen to country music... NEVER, NEVER gonna do it

/me sweeps the Kevn Kinney and John Hiatt CD's under the rug so no one else sees them

I blame rosepurr and thndrstd for actually making me like* This is Americana, a 2 CD set of mostly modern "country" music. There are a few song in the set that annoy me. Such as the more traditional whiny/twangy voices, and some of the slide guitar work that is just... well, stereotypical country and gets old in a few seconds ( Read more... )

A few days ago I had the sudden urge to listen to PDQ Bach. Over a decade ago I heard albums by "him" (really Peter Schickele, a music professor at some college) and just laughed my ass off. My boss at a/d/s/ had 2 albums (with titles like "Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities" and "1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults ( Read more... )

So, while in search of bands to see in the Boston area (mainly local bands), I've assembled quite a list for the next month, and I'm sure I could find more if I kept looking.

• Ellis Paul,Jennifer Kimball, Christopher Williams, Vance Gilbert, and a few others will be playing at the Sanders Theatre on September 30 (8:00pm)
  
• Twinemen will be opening for ( Read more... )

Its been a while since I've listened to either Sonny Landreth or Marti Jones. Warning, the Sonny Landreth page has an annoying guitar solo blaring when you load the page. Its been even longer since I recommended either of these artists to anyone ( Read more... )

I've been working on a job site for the last 2 weeks (or 3 weeks? I forget). Because of this, I have had to listen to my music through head phones. I actually went out and bought an OK pair of head phones (weirdly, I'm an audiophile but have not gone and bought the nice headphones pir has been talking about). Unfortunately, this office is static ( Read more... )