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Executive Profile: Karen Dunn, Owner / Event Producer of KMD Productions, LLC
From award shows to golf tournaments, when the music industry puts on an event there’s one person they often turn to. Leveraging her extensive relationships with the people behind the ... -
Live Review: The Purple Planet at Obrien's Pub in Allston, MA
Material: Normally electric, this experimental jam factory hailing from New York embarked on a micro-journey that saw them stripped down to an acoustic trio. Flanked by guitar and keyboard, this ... -
Exec Profile: Scott McKinley, Founder/Head of A&R at Hi-Tunes Distribution
With a decade of experience working A&R for CaviGold Records under his belt, Scott McKinley knows mixing music with marijuana. Naturally, he dreamed up the idea for Hi-Tunes Distribution––selling artist-themed ... -
Signing Story: Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
Manager Mike Polans began working with bluegrass/Americana quintet Horseshoes & Hand Grenades last August. As luck would have it, the company Polans works for, 7S Management, also handles The Infamous ... -
Album Review: EELS - The Deconstruction (8/10)
Featuring the talents of Koool G Murder, P-Boo and The Deconstruction Orchestra & Choir, Mark Oliver Everett’s 12th entry synthesizes unmatched majesty with humble nobility, transforming workaday life sketches into ... -
The American Symphony of Soul at Middle East in Boston, MA
Material: Like a nuclear warhead loaded with righteous love, The American Symphony of Soul is Cambridge, MA’s very own soul-party bomb of mass construction. Covers from Beyoncé, Michael Jackson and ... -
Exec Profile: Morgan Margolis
BACKGROUND Morgan Margolis entered the world of bars and music performance venues after growing tired of Hollywood. He climbed aboard Knitting Factory in 2000 and in 2009 became President and ... -
Executive Profile: Paul Rothenberg, Founder of Rothenberg, P.C.
BACKGROUND While attempting to break into film, Paul Rothenberg serendipitously fell into music law. Starting out in New York, he later moved to Los Angeles and eventually founded his own ... -
Album Review: MGMT - Little Dark Age (9/10)
On their first album in five years, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser upraise their obtuse admixture of synth pop and psychedelic rock to new heights of exuberant delirium. Amid wobbling rhythms and fearless experimentation, their surrealistic ... -
Album Review: Mt. Joy - Mt. Joy (6/10)
Singer Matt Quinn’s vocals are the epitome of a mellifluous, double-edged sword on this wavering debut. Literary lyrics and indigo imagery mate elegantly alongside amber intonations and lilting flow, but ...
