Consider this your holiday shopping checklist for the record aficionados and rising musicians. Best of all, everything’s in the three-digit price range or less.
Notes from the Scene
GET UR FREAK ON: FREE MISSY ELLIOTT DANCE PARTY LETS YOU WORK IT ALL NIGHT
Leave it to DJ LeahV and the folks at Bowery Boston to bring the right #mood to Boston... for free.
DEEP THOUGHTS, DEEPER CRATES: CENTRAL SQUARE’S NEW RECORD STORE ROCKS THE BEAUTIFUL & BIZARRE
Right when we were about to go running through the streets of Cambridge flipping off every defunct music space we found, Deep Thoughts stepped up to save the day.
THANKS(FOR)GIVING: FEED THE GROUPS THAT FEED US MUSIC
Skip the extra dessert and put that money towards something even sweeter: keeping music non-profits alive.
COHEED AND CAMBRIA ADD SECOND BOSTON SHOW (AND WE’RE GIVING AWAY TICKETS)
Coheed and Cambria added a second Boston date to their 2016 tour -- and we're giving away a pair of tickets!
BOSTON EN MASSE: THE INHERENT STRUGGLE AND QUIET PRIDE OF BOOKING AN ECLECTIC THREE-DAY FESTIVAL
It’s already impossible to imagine the city without Jason Trefts of Illegally Blind -- just look at this week’s upcoming Boston En Masse festival to understand why.
SOMETHING TO HARP ON: AUDREY HARRER AND THE FINALISTS OF CAMBRIDGE PHILHARMONIC’S FEMALE COMPOSERS NIGHT
Some hundred years after Mozart and Monteverdi, we’re still leaving most female composers out of the spotlight, but the Cambridge Philharmonic looks to change that.
AN EDUCATION: HOW AND WHY TO TRAIN YOUR EARS FOR HASSLE FEST 7
Boston’s already got so much music stuffed into its nooks and crannies that a festival highlighting its underground acts seems redundant. Why draw attention to those already left in the shadows? But Hassle Fest, a three-day music festival ...
SHAKE IT UP: A LOOK INSIDE CONVERSE RUBBER TRACKS WITH AZIZ THE SHAKE
Boston-based rapper Aziz the Shake sets up at Converse Rubber Tracks Studio to lay down material for his new album.
Capital One “Money, Careers, and You” connects community with financial & career experts
As guest Janice Wilbone put it, "I was really surprised by how much use-able information we came away with....oh, and the food was great!"