BlogCritics, a music critique and review website featuring the writings of webloggers around the world, announced plans to launch its website tomorrow/Tuesday, August 13th. They'll feature an interview with RIAA president Cary Sherman. Check out Eric Olsen's blog for more information and the latest happenings and be sure to visit BlogCritics on Tuesday!
One of my favorite Boston artists, Marta Gómez, is playing live this Thursday (15 August) - 8:30 pm at Ryles jazz club (212 Hampshire Street, Cambridge). She promises many new songs as well as some old ones, and the cover is $7. Don't miss this show, you'll be sorry - see you there!
(for my first post on Marta, click here)
A live concert and webcast to help save the Internet radio industry will take place tonight from the State Theatre in Falls Church, Virginia near Washington, D.C. at 7:30PM ET. The concert will feature The Gerry Beaudoin Trio (with Jay Geils, formerly of the J.Geils band), The Mike O'Meara Blues Band featuring Mike O'Meara of the nationally syndicated "Don and Mike" radio show, and Signorello.
Visit the concert info page for more information about the various Internet radio stations that will be streaming the concert.
Interested in helping small webcasters on the Internet? Send a fax to Congress. Also worth checking out is Save Internet Radio.com's website.
I've mentioned my love for acts that have bowed instruments. Blue Horizon is one such band, folk, with some rock influence. Touching lyrics, beautiful harmonies, and a violin. What more do you need?
Blue Horizon : Blue Horizon : When the Sun Goes Down
See them at the Kendall Cafe Saturday, July 20th at 10pm in Cambridge, MA to hear songs from their second CD, Locust Years.
Cover charge too high for you? Print out their handy coupon and bring it along.
News about a documentary featuring Jess Klein hit my email inbox earlier. Jess is a Boston folk rock singer who was also 1/4th of Voices on the Verge, the foursome collective of singers/songwriters that put out a fabulous live CD on Rykodisk last year. If you're in the Boston area, read on for information about a screening of the movie on August 1st at The Brattle Theater. Tickets are $7 and festivities start at 9:30PM.
(Posted from Jess Klein's email list)
You are invited to the BOSTON PREMIERE of "Take It From Me", a documentary film by rachel clift
Please join local filmmaker Clift with Jess Klein, Aparna Sindhoor, and Chandra Dieppa Ortiz at the Brattle Theatre for a special ONE-NIGHT ONLY screening and live performance!
Thursday, August 1st
Brattle Theatre,
Cambridge, MA
9:30pm
Tickets: $7
Half-hour film
screening * Live Performance * Informal Q&AJOIN US!
Clift has fashioned an affecting look at three of Boston's most talented young artists -- singer/songwriter Jess Klein, dancer/choreographer Aparna Sindhoor, and mixed media artist/painter Chandra Dieppa Ortiz. The artists speak for themselves in this richly-textured portrait, while viewers watch traditional Indian
dance, jazz-based painting, and popular folk music develop from an idea to an art form. A colorful and ultimately moving film, Take It From Me explores the place where personal truth, politics, and the creative process meet."Take It From Me" has been an official selection at the Vermont Women's Film
Festival, the Rochester International Film Festival, the Lake Placid Film Forum, and the Newport International Film Festival. It will also screen at the 11th Annual Woods Hole Film Festival on Sunday, July 28th as a co-presentation with Women In Film New England! Questions? Or for More Information, write nefertitiproductions@yahoo.com or call 617.522.8043.
This just in from the Sheeba Records' (Jane Siberry) MUSELETTER:
On Wednesday July 10th Jane Siberry will be performing at the Virgin Megastore Union Square in New York City at 7pm. Jane will be meeting fans and signing copies of her anthology Love Is Everything: The Jane Siberry Anthology afterwards.
Directions to the Virgin Megastore
Jane will also be performing three shows in New York at the FEZ under Time Cafe on 12,13,14 of July. The shows are called "Workshopping In The Garden", Jane will be accompanied by a pianist and will be playing new songs and reading new works.
Tickets for these shows are $25 (212-533-2680 - 380 LaFayette Street). Doors open at 8pm.
Friday, August 30th gives you a chance to succumb to the one-two punch of Mary Timony and Le Tigre at the Roxy in Boston.
Timony's latest album is "The Golden Dove", and there's not a skip-worthy track on it, to my ears. Halfway through the year and it sits squarely in my top 5 2002 discs. Her backing band is packed with multi-talented rock stars, and they wowed the crowd at 608 last month.
Le Tigre is one of those bands that I'm supposed to know, but don't yet. Their Boston shows have sold out quickly, and I've missed each one. It's time to change that. I was into Bikini Kill (Kathleen Hanna's seminal grrl-punk band) back in the day, so I'm psyched to see how her new stuff compares.
While I am loathe to pimp ticketmaster, I must, as it is the only way to get Roxy tix. They went on sale this past Saturday, and I'm sure they're well on their way to a sell-out. Get goin'.
Ticketmaster / Le Tigre / Mary Timony
Sunfest, a yearly festival of music, dance, crafts and cuisine from around the world, is almost here - only four days to go!
For jan and myself, and many other denizens of the Forest City, Sunfest has become a much anticipated yearly ritual. On the first weekend of July, this free event brings the world to our little corner of soutwestern Ontario. This year's roster of artists includes a Cuban superstar, a folk diva from Mali and throat singers from Tuva among many others.
Here's a little taste of what's in store:
Alpha YaYa Diallo : The Journey : Masibodji
I'm not even sure where to start. JazzFest in New Orleans is too much music to fit into a little text entry.
Short story: I saw a bunch of music.
JazzFest has a heritage section (tents for Blues, Gospel, and Jazz) and then several stages for other acts. A total of 57 musical acts in one day. I ran from act to act, with stops in the mist tent and the snowball stand. It was still hard to catch more than a handful of people. Blues singer Big Al Carson was fun ("I like to dip my dipper into somebody else's dippings" was a crowd favorite). I never tire of Jimmy Buffet. He always draws a fun crowd and keeps people bopping up and down for a couple hours. Even in the New Orleans heat. Then there was the vendor food - a veritable cornucopia of creole.
But wait - -there's more! I got some tickets to see Cowboy Mouth at the Orpheum theater. The best live rock act I've ever seen. Period. Fred (lead singer/drummer) whipped the crowd into a frenzy with his drill seargent tactics. I've never seen so much clapping, yelling, and dancing.