Rock the house party with this all-Boston holiday playlist
This year’s all-Boston Christmas playlist honors this city’s history of Christmas music, from seasonal depression to bawdy celebration.
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Tinkertown builds a debut album — hear it at the Burren
Tinkertown’s show at the Burren Dec. 6 will feature most of the debut album “American Gothic,” plus a couple of surprise covers including a classic-rock nugget that they struck up...
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Boston rocks! American Ocelot, Shang Hi Los head to the Burren
If you go to the American Ocelot/Shang Hi Lo’s show at the Burren on Dec. 5, you may or may not see the next big thing from Boston. But you...
Samantha Fish sings (& plays) the blues at Cabot tour stop
The tour is co-headlined by Canned Heat, who helped create the blues-rock trend in the late ‘60s; they still have the drummer who played with them at Woodstock.
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Tokyo Police Club going out on a high note
The members of the Ontario quartet Tokyo Police Club have done almost nothing with their adult lives but play in the band they formed two decades ago, when all four...
Groupie icon Pamela Des Barres tells all at City Winery
Back in 1964, teenagers across the country bought an album called “Meet the Beatles.” Pamela Des Barres was one of the few who took that invitation literally.
Pop duo Ryanhood comes back to Boston with Club Passim show
The duo cut its teeth back in 2003 playing for tourists at Quincy Market.
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Little Big Town’s Schlapman on band’s journey: “The four of us are a little melting pot in the music that we love.”
As part of its 25th anniversary tour, the quartet hits the TD Garden on Halloween night, and they promise appropriate costumes for the occasion.
Rise Against brings punk & politics to Roadrunner
Maybe a political punk band can’t necessarily change the world. But the members of Rise Against believe that it can still make a difference.
Judah & the Lion give grief a beat on new album
When alternative folk-rockers Judah & the Lion wrote their last batch of songs, the last thing on their minds was making an album that might save a few lives. But...