Helping Ground Zero

Ground Zero is a substance-free teen music venue in Allenstown, New Hampshire.  This is a bit of e-commerce to help them stay open.  I have no idea if it will work, but why not help them out buy clicking through, even if you don’t smoke?
SMOKE???, TIRED OF THE COST, THE SMELL, AND BAD BREATH?
IF YOU [...]

This week’s Hippo

Nite Spotlight: Alan Jackson, Studio 99 moves, Brooks Young Band, Cabaret Boheme, Recycled Percussion
Todd Carey – breaking through the tech for a real connection

It’s a sad fact of modern life that often the tools that make certain things easier make others impossible. That’s the conundrum Todd Carey explores in a new song about the ways [...]

Compass features

Players
Local Music Spotlight
Who: Larry Dougher
What: Blues scholar with a rock and roll heart
Sounds like: Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Larry Dougher has a passion for the blues that extends well beyond his prodigious guitar talents. He plays with the authority of someone who’s been knocking around bars since he was 14, but has [...]

Local Rhythms – Autumn is my favorite color

When I first came here, autumn in New England meant nothing to me. Born and raised in California, I only knew two seasons – raining and not raining.
But after 30-plus years, fall’s crisp dawns, metallic blue skies, wood smoke and turning leaves thrill me as much as any native.
I know, I’m still a flatlander.
Of course, [...]

This week’s Hippo – 17 September 2009

Music Roundup – World’s greatest DJ, Hornsby, local band with Big 80’s sound, Jeffrey Gaines & So You Think You Can Dance tour.
Happy Doom – Eternal Embrace calls itself “a gothic doom metal band” that plays dark, brooding music. It’s a sound more orchestrated than most metal, but still pretty downbeat. Keyboard player and bandleader [...]

J. Geils Band Bass Player Danny Klein – Interview

Michael Witthaus interviewed Danny Klein by telephone from the bass player’s home in Boston on 8 September 2009.   Look for Michael’s story in this Thursday’s  Hippo Press.
MW: What are you working on tonight?
DK: We’re just doing a Full House rehearsal, we don’t have a ton of gigs coming up and we’re working on some new [...]

This week’s Hippo – 10 September 2009

A run, a shave and a party
Wild Rover raises money and celebrates Irish/Scottish culture with Celtic Fest

For the first annual Celtic Fest, Manchester’s Wild Rover takes to the streets with an afternoon-long block party and a couple of big charity events — a “holy trinity” celebrating all things Irish and Scottish. It takes place [...]

Local Rhythms – Why Not Here?

Want people to come to your town to eat, drink and buy things? Try the power of music.
Last Saturday, at the 9th annual Keene Music Festival, a city of 22,000 was transformed into Austin, Texas, for a one day South by Southwest New Hampshire.
From noon until near midnight, eighty or so musicians played inside buildings [...]

Compass Preview – 10 September 2009

Buzz
We’re talking about…
09-09-09
Re-meet the Beatles
Leave it to the biggest musical group in history to whip up the masses without a single new song. On Wednesday, Sept 9, the faithful lined up to purchase the Beatles catalog yet again – and again.  New stereo versions of the band’s 13 studio albums, and a Past Masters disk [...]

This Week’s Hippo

Three stories up on the Hippo web site:
Music Roundup, including a shout out to my old pals the Conniption Fits, a tip on an upcoming Chris Smither show, and an all-ages performance this weekend by Krista, a unique singer/rapper.
A story about local Celtic “supergroup” Long Time Courting:
Traditional Irish folk music, perhaps more than any other [...]