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Signing Story: Dreezy
Rapper Dreezy, a.k.a. Seandrea Sledge, never imagined she’d earn a living making music, but when she dropped her track “Ain’t For None” it grabbed the attention of WorldStarHipHop and Universal. ... -
Music Album Review: The Veils - "Total Depravity" (7/10)
It figures that outsider film directors such as David Lynch and Tim Burton would express their divine affinity for the surrealistic psych Goth of the Veils––a knack for the delightfully ... -
Live Review: Shatner at Great Scott in Allston, MA
Material: Founded in 2014 and featuring members of Cocked ‘N Loaded, Black Thai, Tired Old Bones and We’re All Gonna Die, intense metal is the exclusive realm of this take-no-prisoners ... -
Music Album Review: Tall Heights - "Neptune" (6/10)
Cooing, oohing, ahhhing and generally warbling their way through 13 tracks of shimmering ephemera, Tim Harrington and Paul Wright of Tall Heights elevate the concept of delicacy to untold heights. ... -
Exec Profile: Jason Kane, Managing Director, Ent. Houston Rodeo
For 84 years, the Houston Rodeo has been combining rodeo competitions with live musical entertainment. The three-week fair—doubled as a charitable institution—is best known for hosting country artists, but also ... -
Music Album Review: JPNSGRLS - "Divorce" (8/10)
It makes sense a group boasting a title like JPNSGRLS (pronounced “Japanese Girls”) would pen songs thick with perplexing, coded lyrics. Their vocal sentiments, when not overtly personal, feel like ... -
Exec Profile: Miles Copeland, Owner/Founder of Copeland Int'l Artists
Miles Copeland, whose brother played drums for the Police, managed the band to legendary success. If that wasn’t enough, he co-founded I.R.S. Records (R.E.M., the Go-Go’s, Oingo Boingo, the Cramps, ... -
Music Album Review: Kongos - "Egomaniac" (9/10)
Arizona’s South African-born siblings Kongos prove their popularity is no fluke with this sophomore recording extraordinaire. Squeezing comfortably inside an unclassifiable alt-rock subgenre, their amiable, canny lyrics coast merrily upon ... -
Music Album Review: Vanna - "All Hell" (5/10)
For their sixth full-length recording, Boston’s Vanna throw down 10 fresh slabs of melodic, post-hardcore sludge. On the plus side, All Hell is chockablock with riffs so malevolent they’ll flush ... -
Live Review: Vapors of Morphine at Atwood's Tavern in Cambridge, MA
Material: In 1999, Mark Sandman, lead singer of Morphine, died on stage in Italy of a heart attack. A decade later, the remaining members of the groundbreaking alternative delta blues/ psychedelic ...
