Monthly Archive:: November 2011

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

TweetQuilt are Shane Butle, Anna Fox Rochinski and John Andrews (Taylor Mcvay, who plays on most of the new album, left recently). Like many a band in the Boston area they formed while attending

Tweet This Saturday night the Precinct in Union Square, Somerville, will be hosting a battle of garage bands and it’ll be east versus west as two bands from Japan take on two bands from