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Sleepover Show #129: The Wooden Sky
We met up with The Wooden Sky earlier in the year to capture some songs off their latest, excellent album, Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun. We figured a good spot might be Somerville Grooves, a recently opened record shop, and conveniently right down the road from Radio, one of the newest venues [...]
Sleepover Show #128: Blitzen Trapper
What better way to be reminded of all the natural imagery in Blitzen Trapper’s music than to see them play beneath a tree, gently swaying in the breeze? Well, that’s exactly what we did when we met up with the band while they were down at the Newport Folk Festival a few weeks ago. It [...]
Newport Folk Festival 2012
It doesn’t get any better than the Newport Folk Festival. Gathering traditional folk musicians as well as some you wouldn’t think fit the bill, in recent years Fort Adams has been a great place to discover and remember some incredible music. We spent the week filming some bands, but here’s a little taste of what [...]
Newport Folk Festival 2012 Preview
We love the Newport Folk Festival. The history of the festival is unmatched, and it’s not just about Bob Dylan using an electric guitar. They have consistently offered up great music, and we can’t be more excited to trek down there again. The last few years have been particularly interesting, as they’ve started to feature [...]
Sleepover Show #127: Hoots and Hellmouth
It was a bit of a cold day when we met up with Hoots and Hellmouth to record a few songs off their latest release, Salt. With the wind blowing around outside, and the warm house available to us, we decided to record right there in the living room. Soon, the space was filled with [...]
Sleepover Show #126: Richard Buckner
Twice the music had disappeared. Twice. We talked about this as we took the drive from Boston out to MASS MoCA to film a session with the inimitable Richard Buckner. So the story goes—Buckner worked on his latest album three times over. The first time his computer died, as did the music that was on [...]
Instrument Interview #6: Tim Kasher
Episode #6, in which Tim Kasher of Cursive tells us a little bit about his first guitar and plays This House Alive from the latest Cursive album, I Am Gemini. Hope you enjoy! To stay updated, make sure to find us on Facebook or Twitter.
Sleepover Show #125: Ben Kweller
What started out as a quiet and comfortable afternoon in Ben Kweller’s mobile bedroom ended with him dancing around and finally crashing onto his bed. We were inside his tour bus, which he offered as an interesting place to film our set with him. We climbed aboard the bus, which was parked outside the Paradise, [...]
Sleepover Show #124: We Are Augustines
It’s a good time to be a We Are Augustines fan. For a year now we’ve all been able to listen to their incredible first album, Rise Ye Sunken Ships, and now they are about to embark on a tour supporting Counting Crows. We can only hope that the band, which rose from the ashes [...]
Sleepover Show #123: The Milkman’s Union
We were lucky that our show with The Milkman’s Union took place on one of those beautiful days where, despite a slight chill in the air, the sun is high and keeps you from being too cold. We waited outside some bars near Fenway Park for the band to show. After a few minutes, they [...]
Sleepover Show #122: The Features
The Features put on a great living room jam. Stopping by during a particularly cold day, we retreated to the cozy confines of our apartment and captured a few songs from the excellent Wilderness, released last summer. The fellas had been travelling quite a bit at that point, nearing the end of their tour. Singer [...]
Sleepover Show #121: Good Night, States
It was one of the few times that snow was on the ground in Boston this winter. We were down in Jamaica Plain, visiting a house there to film a set with Good Night, States, and we trudged through the snow on the front lawn and made our way inside. They were in town to [...]
Instrument Interview #5: Marissa Nadler
On a cold snowy day, we met up with Marissa Nadler to talk a little bit about her guitars. With the sunlight blasting through the snowflakes and the windows, she told us about the unfortunate travels of her guitar, and filmed a new song, Apostle, off her upcoming release. The album, The Sister, comes out [...]
Sleepover Show #120: Lucero
You can probably remember the first time you heard Lucero. Maybe a friend played it as you took a long drive across the country, the melancholy hurt of My Best Girl pouring out of the radio as you looked off into the night. Perhaps you heard the sound of guitar and strings played over the [...]
Sleepover Show #119: Larcenist
We first worked with Larcenist last summer when we teamed up with the Boston Phoenix and Ryan’s Smashing Life to hold a benefit concert at Great Scott for victims of the tornados down south. That night, we joined together to raise some much-needed funds for the victims, and happened to listen to some great music [...]
Instrument Interview #4: Christopher Paul Stelling
Here we are for another installment of our Instrument Interview series. Recently we met up with Christopher Paul Stelling at a nearby park for a song and a story about his guitar. When we first worked with CPS, we were struck not only by his friendly demeanor (having a conversation with him is like chatting [...]
Sleepover Show #118: We Were Promised Jetpacks
This week we bring you We Were Promised Jetpacks—still out touring off their latest release, In the Pit of the Stomach, the band recently stopped over at Coachella, no doubt winning over a few more fans on this side of the Atlantic. What you may have seen there are pounding drums, electric guitars, and Adam [...]
Record Store Day Preview: Richard Buckner’s “Willow”
Today, we are celebrating Richard Buckner and Record Store Day. This Saturday, one of our favorite days of the year arrives–a day when some special vinyl goodies will pop up in our favorite independent record stores. When we sat down with Buckner down at MASS MoCA a few weeks back, we asked if he’d give [...]