Archive for December, 2009

Meet THE MIGHTY, MIGHTY BOSSTONES at McGreevy’s @ 1:00PM Sunday, December 27th. McGreevy’s is the official hangout before and after the concert! We’re only 1200 Steps from The House of Blues!

Bosstones will be celebrating the 12th annual HOME TOWN THROW DOWN at the Boston House of Blues December 26, 27, & 28 and The Middle East in Cambridge, MA on December 29.

For more info visit MCGREEVY’S & THE  MIGHTY, MIGHTY BOSSTONES

*Footage by Kenny Howell

That’s Right Ladies & Gentlemen – Street Dogs have announced details for their 5th Annual Wreck The Halls punk extravaganza in Boston, MA in December and a ton of new tour dates in both the U.S. & Europe! The band will be ringing in the holidays in their hometown with two very special shows at the Paradise. “Night One” on December 19th will feature NYC street punk stalwarts Roger Miret & The Disasters; Stigma, the new project from Agnostic Front guitar player Vinny Stigma; and Dorchester-raised singer songwriter, Bryan McPherson. Street Dogs will be joined on ”Night Two” on December 20th, by Boston natives Far From Finished and The Snipes, as well as Buddha & The Boys, featuring Buddha from Blood For Blood.

To read the complete article visit HELLCAT RECORDS

To see more footage from the show visit us at YOUTUBE

Photos by Kenny Howell

We caught up with GENEVIEVE SCHATZ (vocalist), MARC WALLOCH (guitarist) and MIKE ORTIZ (drummer) of COMPANY OF THIEVES at McCormick & Schmicks in downtown Providence before their show at Club Hell in Providence on Friday, December 11, 2009.

For more information check out COMPANY OF THIEVES

For footage from the show visit us on YOUTUBE

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Red Hot Chili Peppers’ guitarist John Frusciante has left the band, according reports. Frusciante is said to have already been replaced by Josh Klinghoffer, states Musicradar.com.

Klinghoffer toured with Red Hot Chili Peppers, still featuring Frusciante, in 2007.”Josh Klinghoffer has been playing with the group for a couple of months now,” a source close to the band explained. “Optimistically, the Peppers are trying to lock down a replacement for John, who has apparently quit.

To read the complete article visit NME

Sarah McLachlan-founded estrospectacular Lilith Fair will return in the summer of 2010, rebranded as a “Tour,” but just as lady-licious as ever before. The headliners announced today represent a pretty impressive cross-section of women in music: Lilith vets like Sheryl Crow, Emmylou

Harris, and Erykah Badu stand alongside newcomers Colbie Callait, Corinne Bailey Rae, and Sara Bareilles. Folkies like Zee Avi and the Indigo Girls will nuzzle up to the freakier bosoms of Janelle Monae and Metric. Mainstream country gets great representation from Sugarland and Miranda Lambert. And the diversity apparent in any tour that carries both Mary J. Blige and Tegan and Sara is to be applauded. Here’s the only question: Will anyone go?

To read the complete article visit ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Let’s just get this out of the way, shall we? About 99 per cent of pop is drudging twuntery assembled by blank-eyed robots who are unjustly rewarded with mountains of cash, while all my favourite bands languish and die in places like Tacoma, Washington. As someone who believes hardcore punk to be mankind’s highest artform, Lady GaGa is the antithesis of my fucking soul: she eats diamonds marinated in the tears of seraphim, I eat week-old misery on toast. I’d despise her… but she is that remaining one per cent.

It’s because she’s baffling.  ‘The Fame Monster’, being eight new tunes welded to last year’s ‘The Fame’ (where most pop muppets would tack on a tossed-off remix or two, La Gaga delves into her paranoid soul and constructs a thematic collection around new demons that have invaded her life – monsters representing her fear of, among others, sex, death, loneliness and alcohol) is as pristine as you’d expect, but has a sub-zero core of isolation and fear. In the same way as Radiohead battle computers and learn new instruments to hew their sculptures while Fuck Buttons and HEALTH discover new sonic languages, she uses pop, its producers and masks and all its artifice, as her tool of self-expression.

To hear some new tunes visit MYSPACE

To read the complete review visit NME