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LISTEN: Sarah Rabdau, "Jackie" (mp3) “That was good, right?” utters drummer Matt Graber in the final seconds of this brand-spanking-new MP3 from Sarah Rabdau and Self-Employed Assassins. Yes, Matt, it’s very very good. If you know the sweetly...
DOWNLOAD: Grimis, "Bagheera" (mp3) You say 90 percent of bands today seem like water added to a packet of pulverized denim and powdered hair gel? Meet Grimis of Andover. They’ve been around for eight years, 200 shows, and three albums, but a...
Download: Midatlantic, "Shine" When you’re a four-piece Boston rock band in part imported from Dublin and called the Bleedin Bleedins, you’re pretty much telling potential show attendees, “Your face will be punched.” Since their jaggier and...
Download: Lisa Bello, "Remix" Unless you’re Mark Wahlberg, it’s tough being the younger sibling of a Boston song-and-dance dignitary. Still, Louie Bello’s kid sister Lisa is on a mission to lasso her brother’s loyal frosted-tip and visibly gellin...
DOWNLOAD: ViceVersah, "Man Vs. Wild" Over the past year, ViceVersah has been spotted grinding in New York, outside Boston Phoenix headquarters, and on bills with hardcore street rappers whom he can easily hang with despite, well, being white...
The Fatal Flaw are a new pop-punk combo comprising recently transplanted bassist and singer Joel Reader (Mr. T Experience, the Avengers), guitarist Zack Wells (the Information), drummer Jason Seaver (the Vershok), and guitarist Matt Goldman (Steel Train...
DOWNLOAD: Amadeus the Stampede, featuring Reks, “Deadly Toxins” When the highly mobile Lawrence MC Reks returned to Mass before his Grey Hairs release party this past August, he blessed a mess of Boston affiliates with doses of his recently revamped dynamic...
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DOWNLOAD: Mighty Mighty Bosstones, "Shoppin' for a Friend" [mp3] If you were around in 1978, it’s possible you could’ve bought Unnatural Axe ’s legendary seven-inch "They Saved Hitler’s Brain' out of the bin at Newbury Comics, then...
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For people with their heads on straight, November 2008 takes a back seat to January 2009 — when Lost launches into its fifth season. Oh, how we simmer with anticipation! How the imponderable expanse of the next six months stretches out before us and mocks our weekly travails! Thank Jacob we have bands staffed by dorks as devout as we are to help us survive this interminable famine of serialized emotional pandering and kitschy weirdness. Thank Jacob for PREVIOUSLY ON LOST.
DOWNLOAD AFTER THE JUMP: PREVIOUSLY ON LOST, “JUST WINK”
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Alina Simone: She grew up here, we swear!
Unofficial rule of thumb: if your personal exposure to within a 50-mile radius of metro Boston exceeds one year (with school years counting), we get to say you’re from here. That said, meet Boston’s own ALINA SIMONE — if you haven’t already. She’s Ukraine-born and now a Brooklynite by way of Austin, but we swear she grew up around here for a while. Her searing, often mordant folk has as many marks of Mary Lou Lord as it has hints of Damon and Naomi — but with a far higher grit factor. “Half of My Kingdom” suffers not for being sung in Russian — the unrelenting scratch of electric guitar, the lonely determined banjo, the pining horns, and Simone’s quavering whisper tell tales of their own. It’s one of many dark, bright moments on her latest, Everyone Is Crying Out to Me, Beware, which came out yesterday on 54° 40’ or Fight! Download "Half My Kingdom" after the jump, plus Michael Brodeur's interview with the girl herself.
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DOWNLOAD: MC Exposition, "50 Million Pictures" (mp3) MC Exposition does this strange thing when he performs: he rhymes so that people in the crowd can understand him. That’s one reason his organic hip-hop outfit, Audible Mainframe , was Boston...
