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SXSW 2012 Preview
Every year, great masses of people head down to SXSW. Not going? Neither are we, it’s ok. Don’t you worry–we present to you in random order nearly 30 bands who you may have already heard, or will hear about after the fest is over. Some are playing official shows, and others not, but they’re all [...]
Sleepover Show #108: Musikanto
Chicago-based musician, Mike Musikantow began his career as an artist at The Art Institute of Chicago. Before long, he decided to focus his energies instead on music and released his first album, Ghost Pain, in 2009. Last year, he released a sophomore effort, Sky of Dresses, and hit the road once more. We caught up [...]
Sleepover Show #107: Mates of State
We were excited to spend some time with Mates of State when they made their last trip through Boston last year. Stopping by to film a few songs off their latest release, Mountaintops, we spent the early afternoon recording some stripped-down versions. Kori and Jason, joined by Kenji Shinagawa on guitar and John Panos on [...]
Sleepover Show #106: Noelle
There’s too much to say about Noelle LeBlanc to indulge in flowery discourse. Some of our viewers may only be familiar with her from our Holiday Show this year, and her performance of “This Christmas,” but Noelle has an impressive body of work. In the early 2000’s she founded the band Damone, which had a [...]
Sleepover Show #105: Hey Rosetta!
We met up with Hey Rosetta! during their last swing through town last fall. Setting up shop in a corner of Mr. Music in Allston, we were not entirely surprised to see bassist Josh Ward already there, in another corner, eyeing the bass guitars before the rest of the band showed up. And then the [...]
Sleepover Show #104: The Milk Carton Kids
The Milk Carton Kids‘ Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale were arriving in just a short while and we just could not come up with a suitable place to film them. It was cold out, the places we checked off in our heads had been filmed at already, and we were pressed to find a unique [...]
Sleepover Show #103: The Hours
We met up with The Hours a few months back to film some songs off their latest release, I Want More. Setting up deep below the stage at the Wang Theatre, we were surprised to be standing next to Noel Gallagher for a few minutes, who was just walking around pre-show. But then we had [...]
Instrument Interview #1 Suz Slezak
We are very happy to bring you a new series here at Sleepover Shows. We have started interviewing musicians about their instruments; sometimes the instruments will be unique and sometimes they’ll be a little more common. But as we’ve learned over the last few years, an instrument is never just an instrument. Oftentimes we read [...]
Sleepover Show #102: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion
When you’ve filmed in the same green room a few times in the past, it can be hard to come up with a new idea or look for a space that has become so familiar. We faced this very predicament when we arrived for our show with Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion. The duo [...]
Sleepover Show #101: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling
Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola are two of the most prolific members of the Boston local music scene. They master internetters. They are 2/9ths of the Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library (long-time friends of Sleepover Shows). They are 2/3rds of Spooky Catalogue Punk Band, Darling Pet Munkee, 2/3rds of Future Utopia Children’s Band, Space [...]
Sleepover Show #100: Deer Tick
Well here we are. 100 shows in, and we’re still going strong. We are thrilled to be able to bring you good music each week. We love meeting up with bands, finding interesting places to film, and sharing the videos with you. We have a lot of plans in the works for the site, and [...]
Sleepover Show #99: Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps
There’s a theory that the perfect pop song is exactly three minutes and 33 seconds long. Silly theory maybe, however, it’s backed up with some compelling evidence. The Beatles’ Rocky Raccoon, The Cure’s Just Like Heaven, AC/DC’s You Shook Me All Night Long and The Smiths’ Every Day Is Like Sunday all magically clock in [...]
Sleepover Show #98: Pokey LaFarge
The first time we were able to see Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three play live was at last summer’s Newport Folk Festival. We watched as the first few rows of young audience members crouched near the stage so they could sing along to every word, while some of the older concertgoers in the [...]
Sleepover Show #97: The Wooden Birds
It was hot, too hot to film outside, and getting hotter in the apartment. But there we were with The Wooden Birds, setting up on the couch where label-mate David Bazan had just sat a few days before to also escape the heat. The band set up and practiced a bit, while Matt Pond kept [...]
Sleepover Show #96: Viva Voce
We had planned to film Viva Voce awhile back. The band, husband and wife Kevin and Anita Robinson, had a lot on their plate that day so Kevin asked if he could do a solo show for us. We happily agreed and he played three songs for us in the darkened Middle East restaurant in [...]
Sleepover Show #95: Lydia Loveless
You never really know someone until you drive around with them looking for parking. If that adage, which we just made up, holds any truth, we really know Lydia Loveless. During the colder months, you’ll notice a distinct lack of sunlight in many of our videos, for Miss Loveless we would have none of that. [...]
Sleepover Show #94: Ivan & Alyosha
Down the street from us there is a great used bookstore, The Boston Book Annex. We’ve wanted to film there for a while now, tucked away in some back corner, and what better way to do so than with a band that takes its name from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov? Tim Wilson and Ryan Carbary [...]
Sleepover Show #93: Peter Wolf Crier
We had a busy evening in store. It is not all that rare for Sleepover Shows to film two shows in one night, but when it happens, it’s hard to not feel a tiny bit wary. Part one of the evening was with Peter Wolf Crier who was kicking off their tour by playing The [...]