Inbound Sounds

Off the beaten shows this week with Hayley Thompson-King and Marissa Nadler - tonight 3/7 @ the Plough & Stars + 3/8 @ 826 Boston - debut tracks!

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:44:00 GMT

If you are hunting for cool little shows this week like a Frenchman hunts for truffles, here are a couple of selections to make things more interesting. Tonight, singer/guitarist Hayley Thompson-King of excellent blues/garage/harmony trio Banditas continues her residency at...

Electro-popping and breakfast muffins - New and newer releases from Bearstonaut and Stereo Telescope

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:39:13 GMT

When I need to get up, I need two things to make the magic happen. Caffeine and music. Caffeine is my drug (and I bet it's safely yours too), but it's still worthy of Rick James at his most...

Sarah Rabdau (and 149 other Boston artists) team-up to interpret Beck's new "Song Reader" @ Somerville Theatre - 2/28

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:20:34 GMT

Pere Ubu's David Thomas once said something about how the Beach Boys' unreleased Smile album was the greatest album of all time because it only existed in the imagination of the listener. Now, that mischivous offspring of the Fluxus movement,...

What the Ho-Ag?!? - Boston Prog-Math-Metal-Spaz-Rock band releases new album TONIGHT @ Oberon

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:52:54 GMT

Ho-Ag. It's a band name that gives you no warning as to what the music is going to sound like on the inside. A good omen, to be sure. My first thought was that is was related to MOAB...

Shepherdess meets Corin Ashley - Q&A (+ Record Release parties!)

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:57:23 GMT

Welcome to installment #4 of Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man--where unrelated Boston musicians are asked to review each other's records. I am your friendly moderator (I like to think of myself as more of a Jack Kirby than a...

Tonight's flights - Margaret Glaspy EP release at Passim | Doctors Fox + New Beard at the Milky Way

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:25:08 GMT

Tonight on Cambridge (my side of the river), folk singer/songwriter Margaret Glaspy will be celebrating the release of her debut EP, If & When, up at Club Passim. Folk is a pretty big bucket these days (always was, I...

Extra letters spell rock fabuloussness for MMOSS and CreaturoS

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:00:00 GMT

Two bands that I have enjoyed muchly in the live setting recently are MMOSS and CreaturoS--both of whom happen to have newish records of notable quality from late 2012. Granite-staters MMOSS peddle pensively-gentle, yet krauty/expansive-psych interspersed with bursts of...

King Richard's Fair - blogger-turned-booker Richard Bouchard gives the lay of the land for local music at TTs

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:10:24 GMT

Whether or not you know him personally, Richard Bouchard is as ubiquitous at Boston shows as the late Billy Ruane. The Merrimack Valley native is best known for the immense amount of work he did for the recently closed Boston...

Have a stiff drink with Christian McNeill - 1/12 @ the Paradise (Hot Stove)

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:34:32 GMT

Normally, the rock-meets-baseball 'Hot Stove' event is not something I pay much attention to, anymore than I would want to watch rock musicians taking batting practice. However, for a unification of musical friends past and present (this year's event features...

Chomping on First Night 2013 - Because culture is like vegetables, and vegetables are YUM!

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:19:45 GMT

First Night is an annual all-day event held in Greater Boston on New Years Eve that celebrates the generosity and vibrance of the Boston arts community. It's a day that begins with art, movies, free tours, dance, and puppet...

Jaggery wows and flutters tonight @ Oberon - 12/20

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:32:17 GMT

Tonight in Harvard Square's Oberon Theater, Jaggery will perform as one of the acts in a performance called Org: Last Day on Earth which has a theme somewhat related to the Mayan version of the Y2K bug. As tongue-in-cheek concepts...

Breaking World Records (or something like that) with Bang! Bros and Cotton Candy

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:57:49 GMT

Admit it, we all looked in admiration and horror at fingernails man in the old Guinness Book of World Records. Today is a new era, where everyday people just like you too can try and break a world record too!...

Other kindsa bad girls - Bad Girls Upset By the Truth - @ Johnny D's - 12/11-12/12

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:18:57 GMT

Just in time for a break in the run of the Slutcracker across the street at the Somerville Theatre comes a two-night run of Jo Carol Pierce's Bad Girls Upset By The Truth. The humorous production splices country-tinged ballads...

The instrumental pleasures of the Invisible Rays and the Weisstronauts @ Armory - 12/6 and Midway - 12/7

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:10:11 GMT

In that tiny splinter of time that existed between the great first wave of American rock & roll and the British Invasion, there was a place and time for the brief rise of the instrumental group. Outfits like the...

Lounge axe drops on Somerville @ Radio - 11/29

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:42:49 GMT

I might not have a 740AM tattoo, but I l do love lounge music. In fact, it's one of those things like being a Yankees fan or a vegetarian that I imagine would be sometimes hard to explain. Things that...

Extra letters spell rock fabuloussness for MMOSS and CreaturoS

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:53:55 GMT

Two bands that I have enjoyed muchly in the live setting recently are MMOSS and CreaturoS--both of whom happen to have newish records of remarkable quality from late 2012. Granite-staters MMOSS peddle pensively-gentle, yet krauty/expansive-psych interspersed with bursts of...

Parks and Broken Toys- new tracks in the Inbounds Sounds playground (exclusive!)

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:50:55 GMT

I'm not sure which of these statements is true. 1. These days musicians have to be everything to get noticed. 2. These days musicians are everything. 3.These days musicians have to get noticed. Sometimes being involved in the press link...

Instant music scene Boston Music Awards preview tonight @ Red Star Union 11/13

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:09:47 GMT

For anyone looking to get themselves inebriated and/or acquainted with the Boston Music scene on short notice, now is your big chance. Tonight, Red Star Union in Cambridges Kendall Square will present a preview to the 25th annual Boston...

Muy Cansado and Naked On Roller Skates - steel cage match @ the Middle East - 11/9

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:57:23 GMT

Tonight, two Boston Bands share a dual record release bill at the Middle East Upstairs. And while two will enter, only one will leave. While Mean Gene Okerlund couldn't be reached for his ring-side commentary for what will surely be...

Homegrown 4 - not quite legalized but definitely therapeutic @ Cambridge Elks Lodge - 11/2 and 11/3

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:58:22 GMT

The Boston Police Department may be cracking down on local house show hosts like Whitehaus and Gay Gardens (chronicled nicely here by Perry Eaton in Allston Pudding) but have no fear denizens of funky music--the festival that represents all the...

Ruby Ridge goes under the Knife @ Great Scott ("The Pill") - 10/31

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:21:38 GMT

Of all of the bands that will be dressing up and performing the music of other bands tonight in the Boston Halloween tradition, there are no choices more obscure than Ruby Ridge performing as the Knife at tonight's The Pill...

What's that musical mountain emerges the distance? Bent Shapes? Sic Alps? - 10/25 @ Radio

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:48:03 GMT

Lots of good shows have been dive bombing Somerville's Radio lately, and tonight's show will be one of the best. San Francisco's Sic Alps harken back to a time when skinny boys with bad teeth made records and people...

Rick Berlin meets Hey Ice Machine - Q&A (+ CD Release tonight for Berlin @ the Magic Room!)

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:22:37 GMT

Welcome to installment #3 of Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man-where unrelated Boston musicians are made to review each other's records. I am your friendly moderator, which I guess would make me more of a Lou Costello than a Bud...

The Upper Crust give MS an indifferent sneer @ the Davis Square Theater - 9/29

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:18:06 GMT

[Photo: Jay Elliot] Right down in Davis Square, some of the best rock & roll bands in Boston will be battling Multiple Sclerosis tonight (Sat 9/29) in the second night of Crash Safely--an annual Boston music scene fundraiser held...

Midriff Records and Boston Band Crush celebrate friendship and loyalty at Radio - 9/29

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:58:03 GMT

Running a record label in 2012 is tough business. Especially when you are a two-man operation doing it on a shoe-string. More especially when you are focused on putting out music by bands and artists that you love. Most especially...

Inbound Sounds

Off the beaten shows this week with Hayley Thompson-King and Marissa Nadler - tonight 3/7 @ the Plough & Stars + 3/8 @ 826 Boston - debut tracks!

Electro-popping and breakfast muffins - New and newer releases from Bearstonaut and Stereo Telescope

Sarah Rabdau (and 149 other Boston artists) team-up to interpret Beck's new "Song Reader" @ Somerville Theatre - 2/28

What the Ho-Ag?!? - Boston Prog-Math-Metal-Spaz-Rock band releases new album TONIGHT @ Oberon

Shepherdess meets Corin Ashley - Q&A (+ Record Release parties!)

Tonight's flights - Margaret Glaspy EP release at Passim | Doctors Fox + New Beard at the Milky Way

Extra letters spell rock fabuloussness for MMOSS and CreaturoS

King Richard's Fair - blogger-turned-booker Richard Bouchard gives the lay of the land for local music at TTs

Have a stiff drink with Christian McNeill - 1/12 @ the Paradise (Hot Stove)

Chomping on First Night 2013 - Because culture is like vegetables, and vegetables are YUM!

Jaggery wows and flutters tonight @ Oberon - 12/20

Breaking World Records (or something like that) with Bang! Bros and Cotton Candy

Other kindsa bad girls - Bad Girls Upset By the Truth - @ Johnny D's - 12/11-12/12

The instrumental pleasures of the Invisible Rays and the Weisstronauts @ Armory - 12/6 and Midway - 12/7

Lounge axe drops on Somerville @ Radio - 11/29

Extra letters spell rock fabuloussness for MMOSS and CreaturoS

Parks and Broken Toys- new tracks in the Inbounds Sounds playground (exclusive!)

Instant music scene  Boston Music Awards preview tonight @ Red Star Union  11/13

Muy Cansado and Naked On Roller Skates - steel cage match @ the Middle East - 11/9

Homegrown 4 - not quite legalized but definitely therapeutic @ Cambridge Elks Lodge - 11/2 and 11/3

Ruby Ridge goes under the Knife @ Great Scott ("The Pill") - 10/31

What's that musical mountain emerges the distance? Bent Shapes? Sic Alps? - 10/25 @ Radio

Rick Berlin meets Hey Ice Machine - Q&A (+ CD Release tonight for Berlin @ the Magic Room!)

The Upper Crust give MS an indifferent sneer @ the Davis Square Theater - 9/29

Midriff Records and Boston Band Crush celebrate friendship and loyalty at Radio - 9/29

Instant music scene Boston Music Awards preview tonight @ Red Star Union 11/13