"We've had so many guys come up to us, saying, 'Wow, I saw you guys, and I thought, great, another girl band. Then you played, and you really surprised me,'" ukulele player Nikki Darlin relates. "What, because we're girls, you expect sappy girl music? That's a general frat boy assumption."
The (...)
In what might initially appear to be a blow to artists such as Bruce Springsteen, who bemoaned the proposed merger, the Justice Department gave tentative approval today to the merger of Ticketmaster, the widely reviled concert ticket company, and to LiveNation, an entertainment conglomerate whose (...)
For local award-winning songwriter Brian Patrick, nothing is more important than connecting to a great song. He's not referring to that moment when an audience realizes they are hearing their favorite Journey cover; in fact, his Brian Patrick Band refuses to play any covers unless they are obscure, (...)
When Austin-based rocker Alejandro Escovedo was informed that his 2001 single, "Castanets" appeared among the most-played songs on then-president George W. Bush's iPod in 2005, the politically-active musician refused to play the song for months. Only recently, after performing at the 2008 Democratic (...)
Ellis Paul is a beloved member of Boston's folk music scene, but you'd never know it. Problem #1: he lives in Charlottesville now.
Problem #2, however, is that he's been relatively quiet since moving here. His award-winning 2008 album, The Dragonfly Races, was his first foray into children's music, (...)
Hot gypsy jazz from the local guitar player.
Olivarez Trio - Choti
Olivarez Trio - Adieu, Bienville
Olivarez Trio - Chez Drennon
Olivarez Trio - Valse De Tchan Tchou
