• Though they didn't win the ROCK-OFF this year, pop band FYVE did turn more than a few heads, with a bubblegum pop sound bolstered by twin-sister harmonies. This past weekend they did the anthem at the New Britain Rock Cats stadium as part of a softball game hosted by ESPN and the JONAS BROTHERS and the "Sibilance" staff have to wonder if some Disney type might just take those kids on a whirlwind at some point.
• The collaboration that KATE SCHROCK and TODD RICHARD have going on will get even more interesting this fall with the addition of GLEN DACOSTA, legendary sax accompanist to BOB MARLEY, whom Schrock met during a jaunt down to Jamaica a decade ago or so. DaCosta will be playing some dates with Schrock and Richard, and is available for workshops and session work if you're interested. He's here through October.
• The new SPENCER ALBEE project, SPACE VERSUS SPEED? Just google it and find out for yourself.
• THELIN and SYN THE SHAMAN have released a taste of their new album as TRAILS, a single called "Tiki Torch" that features KELLY MCKENNA (SLY CHI) and ALT. (DIRT COALITION). Pairing electric guitar (JEFF BARRELL), electronic beats, tribal congas, repeating and echoing vocals, and straight rap, it's like nothing you've heard before locally and very smart. Album this fall? Yes, please.
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- Photos: Metric at House of Blues
Metric live at House of Blues Boston, November 20, 2009
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Faces refaced, Spears speared, Hook hacked
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My lingering qualms with Devendra Banhart's new album have very little to do with its substance and more to do with its consistency, a quality that throughout What Will We Be? seems present only in its glaring absence.
- Various Artists | Panama! 3
If you purchase a copy of Soundway’s wonderful Panama! 3 — and you should — you get two things for the price of one. First, this is a carefully curated CD of “Calypso Panameño, Guajira Jazz & Cumbia Típica on the Isthmus 1960-75” that will keep you smiling — and perhaps dancing — for a healthy while.
- Trans Am | What Day Is It Tonight? Trans Am Live, 1993 - 2008
Trans Am are distillers of guilty pleasures, mixing fat AOR riffs with sleazy electronic accents and a propulsive attitude typically reserved for arcade soundtracks. What Day Is It Tonight? covers the DC-area band’s 20-year history with high-quality, high-energy live cuts taken from their many tours.
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Taking advantage of your seasonal obligation to buy stuff for people, the music industry unleashes its annual torrent of giftable crap: holiday albums, greatest-hits packages, high-profile releases, deluxe reissues.
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Look, it’s not as if there were a song where she says, “Chris Brown, you chicken-shit motherfucker, your ass is gonna pay.”
- Airman punk
Perhaps the clearest sign that Afghanistan is not your father's war comes in the person of Airman First Class Peter Bourgeois, who, while deployed at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, has been busy managing the career of his former band, Jodi Explodi.
- Stones arrive
The Garden was the scene of a historical rock experience last Saturday when the Stones came to Boston. All the past fiascos staged in the hulking home of the Bruins and the Celtics are forgotten.
- The Rolling Stones | Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert
This live 1969 Madison Square Garden set was released at the band's peak, following Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed , preceding Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street , and recorded a week before the disaster at Altamont.
- The Big Hurt: Lambert works it, 50 blows it, Moz ends it
ADAM LAMBERT 's spicy AMA performance continues to dominate entertainment headlines, weeks after it first scandalized the nation — but why does America care what a man does with another man in the secluded privacy of the American Music Awards?
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