Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Thurston Moore Reminisces, Slides into the Future

     Last night marked a sort of return to The Somerville Theatre (55 Davis Sq) for Sonic Youth guitarist and vocalist Thurston Moore. The feedback-and-drone rock band last played the theatre early in their career in the 80s. On that night Moore threw a temper tantrum, left the stage thirty minutes early and locked…

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Hot Molasses: After the Flood

93 years ago on Jan. 15 a tank filled with molasses exploded in the warm air sending waves up to 15 feet high over the North Shore, killing 21. In commemoration, The Precinct Bar (70 Union Sq.) will host the fourth annual Boston Molasses Disaster Benefit Concert on Jan. 21 at 9 p.m.

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A Tingling of My Spine’s Eye

        The circus came to Radio last Friday night by way of Walter Sickert and The Army of Broken Toys. There was androgyny, kabuki masks, red balloons, girls disrobing at intervals, breasts with mustaches, breasts without mustaches, Native American headdresses worn by Sickert and an inflatable Bozo the Clown, and some of the most chunky, grizzled rock ‘n’ roll in town. My eyes were like wall sockets stuffed with too many plugs.

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Dastardly’s Liebowitz Makes the Road His New Best Friend

        When singer/songwriter Gabe Liebowitz, from the band Dastardly, stops by Radio on Sunday, his hustling career will be in full swing.
        “I decided I was finally going to try to make this band my full-time job,” he explained by cell-phone from unusually warm Chicago. The band cut into Liebowitz’s four-year career as a double-decker bus tour guide for the city and playing music on the side, without any manager or agent, has kept him busy. “It’s been really crazy juggling everything,” he said.

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The Twelve Days of Somerville

On my first day in Somerville my landlord gave to me

the lease to my new property.

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Tell Them Count Orlok Sent You

     In 1922 a beady-eyed vampire named Count Orlok shuffled in broken film projections to the horror of German audiences watching the debut of Nosferatu.
     Nearly 100 years later, with a revolving cast of blood-suckers come and gone, Orlok still finds space on a screen somewhere for his bald head and pointy ears every Halloween.
     Next Friday, October 28 at 8 p.m., at the Center for the Arts at the Armory, multi-instrumentalist Brendan Cooney and four other musicians will inject new life into the classic creeper when they perform their score over the silent film.

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This is Radio Control

The history of the two-man, knife-in-teeth castle-stormer rock n’ roll combo is convoluted. If you do it one way, you get the mainstream and sometimes hackneyed White Stripes (not to say I’m not a fan…rock n’ roll has benefited a great deal from Jack White’s efforts to unearth forgotten heroes and gems from days of…

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STARLAB FEST 2011! 8/6/11, Union Square

The good folks at Starlab (32 Prospect St) have organized perhaps the very best live acts from Somerville and beyond for their third whenever-they-feel-like rockin’ BBQ and festival.  It’s all happening outside of a junk metal shop and radiator graveyard in Somerville’s most underrated square, Union. It is of paramount importance that you go and…

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Somerville’s DC FAM to perform Thursday night (7/28) at Club Samba

Somerville natives Leanis Almanzar, Wilner Alexis, Kenny Neff and Larry Travaglione will perform Thursday, July 28, at 8 p.m. at Club Samba (608 Somerville Ave). Known together as DC FAM and respectively as Third Degree, Real Wil, K Street and Renzo, the group is headlining an event featuring DJ Stix from Hot 97 Boston and…

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Listen to “My Imagination” by Somerville band Spirit Kid

There is never any shortage of music to go and see, and — from this day forward — I’m going to to try my hand at directing you to the right way to spend an evening in our fair burg. Take it uptown to Johnny D’s (17 Holland St) or across Union divide to PA’s…

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