Sleepover Show #141: mewithoutYou, II

The last time we met up with mewithoutYou, we walked over to a nice quiet park and filmed the band playing a few songs while sitting in the grass.  A few people turned their heads to listen to what was going on, and it was an overall peaceful experience on a sunny afternoon in Boston.  [...]

Sleepover Show #140: Bhi Bhiman

Bhi Bhiman showed up at our apartment right on time.  He was looking dapper in his suit, and politely excused himself to go straighten his tie in the restroom.  As we continued to set up, we heard a loud crash coming from down the hall, and moments later, Bhiman emerged and informed us that he’d [...]

Sleepover Show #139: Brown Bird & Joe Fletcher

What better way to kick off your Newport Folk Festival weekend than by filming two of the bands you’ve wanted to work with?  How about filming them as you drive through Rhode Island on your way?  How about filming them both at the same time?  Done and done. We’ve wanted to work with both Brown [...]

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, [...]

Sleepover Show #135: Maps and Atlases

We’d been hoping to work with Maps and Atlases since the early days of the site, and we finally got the chance to meet up with the boys for a few songs while they were on tour this year for Beware and Be Grateful, their latest, excellent album. It was a bright late spring morning.  [...]

Sleepover Show #134: Ben Sollee

We can now say that we’ve filmed a fun set with Ben Sollee and shared some ice cream with him.  Not a bad afternoon, we must say.  Showing up at the Taza factory up in Somerville, we were immediately struck by Ben’s complete down to earth demeanor.  He helped carry in the gear.  We scouted [...]