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Instrument Interview #3: Carolina Chocolate Drops
We first filmed Carolina Chocolate Drops last year at the Newport Folk Festival, and when we started our new Instrument Interview series we knew they’d be a perfect addition. Not only are they accomplished musicians, Hubby, Dom, and Rhiannon are thoughtful living historians of minstrelsy. Embracing the form, they have brought this complicated, controversial music [...]
Sleepover Show #117: Viva Viva
And so the wait is finally over. We’ve been running this site for a few years now, and from the beginning we’ve been hoping to film a set with Viva Viva. One of the best live acts in Boston, we were excited to get them together and see how that sound translates to a quieter, [...]
Sleepover Show #116: O’Death
We first became acquainted with O’Death in the spring of 2008. They were on tour with Murder By Death and we’re playing selection from their record Head Home. It was truly one of those rare “holy-shit-what-is-this-!?” moments. The band sounded like they’d wandered in from some sort of alternate universe where hard rock was played [...]
Instrument Interview #2 Sunny Jain
Here is the second installment of our newest feature, the Instrument Interview. So far we’ve had several opportunities to talk to folks about some very unique instruments, and we look forward to bringing these shows to you on a more regular basis. Our time with Sunny Jain of Red Baraat proved to be surprising. We’d [...]
Sleepover Show #115: Trampled By Turtles
It was a big day for us—Trampled by Turtles and Jonny Corndawg were playing together over at the Paradise, and we met up with both of them. Moving from one side of the venue to the other, we captured completely different sets, but they both remain favorites. For the show, we had the band circle [...]
Sleepover Show #114: Jonny Corndawg
The first time we encountered Jonny Corndawg was when he played an opening set for Dawes at Paradise. Before the show started, we staked out a spot on the second floor, right above the merch tables, and peered at the items below. There were the usual t-shirts, CDs, vinyl, and posters, but there was also [...]
Sleepover Show #113: Bell X1
With the streets around Brighton Music Hall alive all around us, we climbed into Bell X1’s tour bus to capture a few songs off their latest album, Bloodless Coup. With just the vocals and guitars of Paul Noonan and David Geraghty, the songs took on a different kind of intimacy, as if the two were [...]
Sleepover Show #112: Spirit Kid
Spirit Kid has been on our wish list of Boston locals for over a year. It was a long engagement, a courting process that we thought might not ever end. But at long last, on a beautiful Sunday morning, Spirit Kid, led by Emeen Zarookian, invited us into an empty piano store in Medford to [...]
Sleepover Show #111: Cate Le Bon
We knew that we would need to find somewhere different to film the Welsh songstress Cate Le Bon when she was in Boston. Set to play at TT the Bear’s Place later that night, we stopped by Rodney’s Bookstore just up the street, and they kindly obliged. Nestled in the back corner of the shop [...]
Sleepover Show #110: Adam Arcuragi
Every now and again you play an album and the voice immediately grabs you. This is exactly what happened when we first listened to Adam Arcuragi’s latest, Like a fire that consumes all before it…. Well, the first thing you hear on the record are the howls of children pretending to be wolves—but right after [...]
Sleepover Show #109: Dom
Dom has only released a pair of EPs in the last two years—last year’s Family of Love, and 2010’s Sun Bronzed Greek Gods—but their songs deserve your attention. That year, here in Boston, they were named to the Boston Phoenix’s 50 Bands/50 States list, and took home the award for Best Song at the Boston [...]
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 [...]