Stabarific is sleeping on the rug directly abreast our new dresser project, unfortunately perched atop the ’50s cabinet is my oft-used & beloved stereo. This is truly a predicament. How do I blast my newest album, a relic from the early butt-rock period of 1992, without awakening a raging stab-monster? What I’m Listening To Tomorrow: […]
Category: Rock
Bob Dylan: Tempest
He’s back. Like Twain, the reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated. Half a century has passed between the release of Bob Dylan‘s first eponymous album and this morning’s release of Tempest, and while some have drawn parallels William Shakespeare‘s final play, The Tempest, it remains unknown if Dylan’s latest offering will ultimately stand as […]
Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé: Barcelona
We are all balanced and well-rounded individuals here, well, maybe all except for the Doodle, who has raised a cadre of hops-eating terrorist kittens – but that’s another story. PaisleyBlog loves Queen and by extension Freddie Mercury. This, paired with the fact that I finally received a full explanation regarding Kirocknrolls distaste for The Beach […]
Dan Blakeslee: Live at Laconia Prison
I’m about to walk out the door, Gershwin‘s Summertime is on the stereo. Stabarific and I are leaving the mainland for a weekend PaisleyTunes fact finding mission on Nantucket Island (remember our last Nantucket post?). But before I go, because I love you, I am going to remind you about a great Boston musician, Dan […]
Anchor & Braille: The Quiet Life
What I’m Listening To Today: Anchor & Braille: The Quiet Life. Initially A&B was used as a simple conduit for extra songs, specifically those which didn’t fit the sound of Stephen Christian‘s other band, Anberlin. Times have changed. This mellow band is now touring. Reminds me a bit of Tears for Fears, how about you? […]
The Beach Boys: Shut Down Volume 2
There has been a bit of grumbling lately, some opining that perhaps I have devoted too much space to The Beach Boys. To this I respond, impossible. It may be true that the greatest surfers who didn’t really surf fell off their big-kahuna perch in the decade’s final twenty years, but that doesn’t matter to […]
Brian Lopez: Official Digital Bootleg
With the first throes of August we succumb once again to the oppressive heat and humidity that passes uninvited across our threshold, another telling sign that the reputation of the eastern seaboard hinges upon the dire misery of its squatters. However, with heat comes relief, either in reality or during a final hallucinatory fadeout. Just […]
Husky: Forever So
Of the many bands with un-google-able names, Husky is one of the few where the offense is forgivable. For, you see, Husky is named after frontman Husky Gawenda. Who, or what, Gawenda is named after we may never know. The Melbourne based band became the first Australian act signed to mighty Sub Pop Records last […]
Tall Tall Trees: Moment
The long brisk Alston night culminated in K Ishibashi sitting alone, completely exhausted, just outside the Harvard Ave & Commonwealth bus shelter. It was one in the morning and no busses would be arriving – but nobody seemed to care, fans milled about enthusiastically recalling another stunning performance. However this post isn’t about Kishi, it’s […]
British Sea Power: EP 5
They’ve done it again. Those wily blokes of British Sea Power have created a fifth EP, EP 5, this one illustrated by a ruefully Munchish monkey in a football helmet. While I always talk about the cover image, this release’s tunes are pretty good as well. Check them out if you get a chance.
Vudu Sister: Bastard Children
The final post from a trio of musicians seen this week at Club Passim regards Keith McCurdy. McCurdy plays in a handful of Rhode Island bands, the iteration we happened to see in Cambridge is called Vudu Sister. It’s just him: a guy with medium length wavy-blonde hair brushed back behind his ears, he’s wearing shorts […]
Denver Boot: 6 to 9, 7… 12
Perhaps this string of numbers: 6 to 9, 7… 12, is, in-fact, meaningful in Providence, RI – everywhere aside from the ocean state sees it as plus three and a damn good recording. The Denver Boot is typically that thing they jam on your car tire when you stop paying your myriad parking tickets. Yeah, I […]