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Instrument Interview #13: Nels Cline

Instrument Interview #13: Nels Cline

Nels Cline is a virtuoso guitarist, a modern master of the instrument. We are thrilled to present to you our latest Instrument Interview with one of the most productive and hard-working musicians out there. Cline may be best known as the guitarist for Wilco, but his solo work speaks for itself. Comfortable in any genre, [...]

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Sleepover Show #100: Deer Tick

Well here we are. 100 shows in, and we’re still...

Sleepover Show #80: Grouplove

We never know what to expect when we meet bands, those...

Sleepover Show #78: Dawes

Dawes has had a hell of a year. After releasing...

Sleepover Show #74: Frightened Rabbit

Fresh off of our trip to this year’s Newport Folk...

Sleepover Show #39: Chris Bathgate

Before embarking on a tour this summer with his full...

Sleepover Show #13: OK Go

So, there we were in Guster’s trailer. Having...

Sleepover Show #8: Lady Lamb the Beekeeper

I can tell you about the flood in my dreams until we...

Sleepover Show #138: The Wood Brothers

We were rather excited to spend some time with The Wood Brothers when they visited Boston this summer. Chris Wood, of course, is a founding member of Medeski Martin & Wood, and his brother Oliver—a fantastic blues musician in his own right, with his own band King Johnson for many a year joined forces a [...]

Sleepover Show #137: Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra

It is safe to say that we’ve wanted to film Amanda Palmer since the early days of the site. Being a Boston-based music blog, it helps to film some of your city’s best, and Palmer certainly applies. And this is how it happened: [...]

Boston Music Awards Preview

Here you go, our preview of the Boston Music Awards. We’ve been fortunate to work with a lot of the acts who are nominated, and here are a dozen of the many reasons to love Boston-based music. We make no recommendations on how you should vote, but be heartened by the fact that there is [...]

Sleepover Show #136: Damien Jurado

Damien Jurado can do more with two minutes and thirty seconds than most. In just a few verses, the stories he weaves are rich with a sense of place, and a sense of memory. We couldn’t help but think about something like the Spoon River Anthology, or in a more general way, of poetry rather [...]

Instrument Interview #10: Liars

For our 10th Instrument Interview we have something a little different for you. We usually spend some time with artists and let them talk about a specific instrument, but here, Liars takes a candid look at their use of computers. Their latest album, WIXIW, is different than what you might have expected from the band, [...]

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