Yearly Archive:: 2011

TweetThis upcoming Phish New Years Eve run will mark my 15th anniversary seeing them play live. My first show was on December 28th, 1996 at the Spectrum in Philly (may it rest in peace).

TweetThere were all sorts of albums that struck my fancy this year. And in the past month the discovery overload has been in high gear as more and more best of lists get published

Tweet< ![CDATA[ Gillian Welch latest album, “The Harrow & The Harvest”, reached #20 on the US Billboard, making it her most successful album to date. She will be rocking out the Wilbur Theatre this

Tweet< ![CDATA[ Justin is coming off a very hot year where the title track off his last album, “Harlem River Blues”, won the song of the year from the Americana Music Awards. He recently

TweetGetting released into the wild on December 6th, the Hampton/Winston-Salem box set from Phish covers the bands live shows from their epic fall 1997 tour and they have chosen three shows in particular –

TweetThe Barr Brothers play Cafe 939 this week on Thursday. New Englanders at heart, the two brothers fleed the country a few years back en route to our brethren to the north in Montreal.

TweetI have to give credit where credit is due for getting introduced to Boston’s Prime Movers. Thank you Breakfast of Champions (WMBR). Also, thanks to James Berkowitz for the uploading to YouTube of these

TweetPretty surprised the Youth Lagoon show at TT’s next week isn’t sold out yet but I wouldn’t count on that not happening.� The band comes from Nebraska and their most recent self-titled album has

Tweet Hot Chip is planning a new album for 2012 so we should have some touring from them after a year of no activity. While the chip had nothing really happening this year, the

TweetMovers & Shakers have their roots in Boston but also in Austin, which gives their sound some nice dexterity. On the one hand they have some garage punk sound that clearly comes from their