Winterpills’ sophomore release continues and improves upon the dour psychedelia and multilayered brilliance heard in their 2005 debut. With bits of beautiful sorrow glimpsed just below shimmering pop surfaces, it’s a hypnotic triumph that reveals more with each listen.
The record’s opener, “Lay Your Heartbreak,” is Mamas and the Papas meets Nirvana, with Philip Price [...]
Vail, Colorado – I know, that’s a strange dateline for a local music column. However, recent news from the Rocky Mountain State is hitting close to home.
In yet another example of a music business utterly bereft of new ideas, the members of Led Zeppelin and Van Halen are suing the owner of Vail’s [...]
You didn’t have to love heavy metal to appreciate the floor-shaking sounds emanating from Claremont’s Moose Lodge last Sunday. The all-day, eight-band concert was impressive for reasons that had nothing to do with music.
The show drew over 200 customers despite losing its headliner earlier in the week. Show promoters (and local Claremont band) Hexerei [...]
This week, I’m happy to report a few additions to the local arts scene. That’s what makes life exciting for me: new venues, and new bands to discover playing in them.
Last Friday India Queen, tucked behind Hanover’s International DVD and Poster shop on Lebanon Street, emanated curry, saffron, tequila and sweat, as the restaurant [...]
The mood at the Newport Moose Club last Saturday night was a combination of church supper and rock festival, as six local bands pitched in to raise over $3,000 for Andy Dickinson. Friends of the Newport man, who was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident last Thanksgiving, hugged, milled about selling [...]
If you thought the Police reunion tour was going to be the biggest show of the summer, get ready for Live Earth, a one-day, multi-continent event featuring over 100 performers. The concerts are the brainchild of former Vice President Al Gore; money raised will create a foundation to study climate change led by the [...]
I wanted to write about the Grammys this week. I was pleased by the Academy’s awkward yet spirited defense of free speech evidenced in the Dixie Chicks sweep of all their nominations. The only thing worse than stealing music, they said, is trying to stop musicians from creating it. They closed [...]
Eight passionate Elvis Presley fans will give some love back to the community this weekend, when Dan D. and the Burning Love perform a benefit for the Stevens High School Class of 2007’s Substance-Free Graduation Event. Bandleader (and Claremont native) Dan LaPorte combines a genetic love for the King’s music (his father was a [...]
Chagrined that I’d gotten the date wrong in the previous week’s column, I made a point of being at Heritage Saturday for Pete Pidgeon & Arcoda’s set. I’d heard some of their MP3s, but really wasn’t sure what to expect of them live. Their most recent EP, “Happy Song,” is smoother than [...]
Via Fox News comes word that the Beatles catalog will be available for download soon, and it won’t be exclusively iTunes. It’s hard to believe that Neil Aspinall represents a band that made 13 albums in something like 7 years. Because if they were managed then like they are today, it would be [...]
