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DIG THIS: THE LUMINEERS @ HOUSE OF BLUES

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Sure to have you humming and dancing like the environmentally conscious, in touch with your inner feelings, hemp wearing hippie that you are. On the inside, at least. Beneath the burrito and the leather jacket and the knee-jerk cynicism. Continue reading

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DIG THIS: LARCENIST ALBUM RELEASE @ GREAT SCOTT

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And if you’ve become weary of this whole genre—for SOME reason or other—then this could be the legendary Not-a-Fan-of-the-Style-but-I-Like-These-Guys moment for you! Continue reading

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OLD ABRAM BROWN @ T.T. THE BEAR’S

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Old Abram Brown is from Boston (and partially New Hampshire, but we won’t hold that against them). 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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FOTOBOM: BAND OF HORSES @ HOUSE OF BLUES 12.9.12

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Much louder than you would have expected. In a really good way. Continue reading

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DARK DARK DARK @ GREAT SCOTT

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If folk music is the music of the land, then Minnesotan outfit Dark Dark Dark must be from the “etheral, jazzy, vaguely Eastern European” part of Minneapolis. Continue reading

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SOLOS: BEAST OF BOTH WORLDS

Solos: Beast of Both Worlds

The duo, of course, deserves a very enthusiastic “f-ck yes!” for their ballsy cover of one of Michael Jackson’s most controversial songs, “They Don’t Care About Us.” Continue reading

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ABBIE BARRETT & THE LAST DATE: THE TRIPLES: VOLUME II

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Abbie Barrett channels that sonic chip-on-your-shoulder beautifully, all while delivering a vocal performance that’d stand up against Jefferson Airplane’s priestess of the high chords, on the second volume of her triad (duh) of EPs, The Triples. Continue reading

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LADY LAMB THE BEEKEEPER

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“How can I make it so that the words are the most important thing, but that the music can help lift them up, so that people aren’t looking at their watches?” Continue reading