Author Archives: AMELIA MASON

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INTERVIEW: THE MILK CARTON KIDS

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Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan are at once familiar and completely novel, standing out with their uncommon subtlety and yet playing so deftly on our shared nostalgia that it’s impossible to hear their music without feeling as if you’ve heard it before, on a lonely country station in some distant land. And that’s exactly the impression the members of The Milk Carton Kids—who play Brighton Music Hall on April 25—hope to give.
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STRICTLY LOCAL: BECK’S SONG READER LIVE

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Song Reader will be performed live in its entirety at the Somerville Theatre, with over 150 local musicians and dancers, plus 20 pieces of new choreography. Continue reading

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FOLKTOWN U.S.A.: BOSTON’S CELTIC MUSIC FEST

January is Boston’s most discouraging month. Untrimmed Christmas trees lie strewn on the sidewalks like so much discarded wrapping paper. The snow darkens from white to brown, the city’s own ambiguously-stained linoleum.

Then, into this dreary post-holiday reverie skips Boston’s Celtic Music Fest, like a manic little parka-clad leprechaun. (I tried to find a gif of this but it seems there isn’t one, weirdly.) Continue reading

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SIRMA: TRACES

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If there’s one thing Sırma knows how to do, it’s create a mood. Continue reading

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BECK’S SONG READER

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Why would anyone buy a book of songs they’ve never heard before? Continue reading

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REVIEW: PATTY GRIFFIN @ CLUB PASSIM

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“It sold out in four minutes. And then our website broke.” Continue reading

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PREVIEW: MISS TESS AND THE TALKBACKS @ LIZARD LOUNGE

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The narrow basement club, with its dark corners and threadbare carpets, is exactly the sort of place you’d expect to find Miss Tess: it’s small and intimate, and a little bit hard to find. Continue reading

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DEFEND YOURSELF!: JOY KILLS SORROW

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“Yeah, I’d have four favorite festivals. And then, maybe I’d have those four festivals fight to the death.” Continue reading

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PREVIEW: ELSEWHERE

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“I mean, I think we all kind of sit at our desks sometimes and wonder, what are we doing?” Continue reading