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DYLAN LEBLANC: CAST THE SAME OLD SHADOW
LeBlanc’s songs have odd spacklings of up-beat country rhythms mixed with melancholy slides and echo-y melodies. Continue reading
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Tags: Alabama, alabama shakes, Album, Cast The Same Old Shadow, CD, Civil Wars, country, Dylan LeBlanc, Issue 14.33, Muscle Shoals, Ray LaMonta, review, Sultry, Tennessee Williams
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JAMIE KENT: NAVIGATION
It’s been awhile since I’ve heard songs that are catchy, feel-goody and alternative (yet still easy to digest) enough to sound as if they belong on the Scrubs soundtrack, but Jamie Kent’s Navigation seems to provide enough for at least 11 episodes. Continue reading
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Tags: Acoustic, cd review, Coldplay, Colin Hay, Dan Mangan, David Berkeley, George Thorogood, Hold On, Issue 14.30, Jamie Kent, Navigation, scrubs, So Bad
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MARCONI: LEWIS & CLARK EP
The first listen shows the band’s musical persona lacks some direction, some focus to its epic stanzas, trembling guitars and splashing cymbals. Continue reading
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Tags: Beats, CD, central square, Issue 14.29, Lewis & Clark EP, Marconi, Music, review, TT the Bear's
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THE OTHER HALF: HOMETOWN HOEDOWN
There was a dance party in Central Square on Friday June 30. And while those involved may have thought they were at the epicenter of “it,” the first annual Hometown Hoedown – a showcase in local Americana music headlined by Girls Guns and Glory – was happening down the street in the cavernous basement of the Middle East and had to be one of the best events in the city just by sheer quality of performance. Continue reading
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Tags: Coyote Kolb, Dietrich Strause, Girls Guns and Glory, Hometown Hoedown, Middle East Downstairs, Swinging Steaks
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THE OTHER HALF: JOE PUG
His songs move with the bumpy cadence of Dylan and Guthrie while his lyrics contain the world of winners, losers, sinners, saints, mythology and one-liners similar to Springsteen. Continue reading
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M. WARD: A WASTELAND COMPANION
If you’re a fan of great folk music or a smoky smooth voice over softly strummed acoustic guitars that don’t belong to Iron and Wine, then you may want to listen to M. Ward’s latest. Continue reading
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THE OTHER HALF: LUCERO
Barely able to be contained by a stage, let alone a box of wood with ivory keys, the bands energy and passion explodes out of the room like an atom bomb … Continue reading
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Tags: Blues, J.Roddy Watson and the Business, Lucero, Punk, rock, The Other Half, The Paradise Rock Club, Women and Work
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BEN KWELLER: GO FLY A KITE
San Franciscan Ben Kweller’s latest is a rock ‘n’ rolling bag of Americana trailmix. Continue reading
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Tags: CD, CD Reviews, Issue 14.12, live, Paradise Rock Club, The Paradise Rock Club
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DROPKICK MURPHYS: GOING OUT IN STYLE
The Dropkick Murphys are back with a growling, drunken vengeance. Continue reading
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Tags: Born & Bred Records, Boston, cd review, Dropkick Murphys, Going Out In Style, house of blues, Issue 14.11
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THE OTHER HALF: HEATHER MALONEY
The tiny brunette is the newest bird on the scene of female singer/songwriters that have started to flower after their mainstream acceptance some five years ago. Continue reading
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