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Mon. 6-26-17. O’Brien’s, Boston, MA. Doors @ 8p. $10. Further dates starting 6-21-17 on his site.   Robert Griffin Lowe has a ten-year career with instrumental band Balmorhea. But the 32-year-old Austin-based musician decided to spend four years of his musical life listening to pop records and recording one. We talk about Stevie Wonder, Lowe’s own Slow Time, and politics influencing music.     M Keefer: You started playing music at seven years old. I remember being around nine or ten, going “Man, do I really have to practice today?” RG Lowe: For me, too, it was definitely like that. It was like a chore atRead More →

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Ms. Kaki King, photo © Shervin Lainez. Sun. 3-1-15, Columbus Theatre, Providence, RI. Doors @ 7. $20 adv. $25 at doorTues, 3-3-15, Brighton Music Hall, Allston, MA. Doors @ 8. $15 adv. Atlanta-born Katherine “Kaki” King picked up the guitar at the age of four; now, at 35, she’s embarking upon a tour that incorporates a synchronized light display by Glowing Pictures. Entitled “The Neck is a Bridge to the Body,” Kaki’s new work crosses the threshold of performance art: the guitar doubling as a living, almost breathing visual art piece. The Kickstarter to fund the project collected $43K of a $25K initially asked for.Read More →

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We’ve been grooving hard to the soulful power-vocals of Lake Street Dive’s Rachael Price (third from left) for the past two weeks. With their new album, Bad Self Portraits due out in a couple weeks, we realized how much we wanted to get on the ground floor with this crew – even though it’s probably pretty hairy business to do so (see barbershop pic – look, a funny!). Their album seems well-positioned to propel the self-described dive-bar quartet onto the larger music radar, with recognition from Rolling Stone and The New York Daily News. The non-barbershop quartet, with members hailing from Nashville to Iowa, isRead More →

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Wed. 11-5-13, Columbus Theatre, Providence, RI. Doors @ 7p. $12 Thurs. 11-6-13, Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, MA. Doors @ 8. $12-14 Fri. 11-7-13, Calvin Theatre. With Mavis Staples. Northampton, MA. Doors @ 7. $25-45   She comes like a high-flying bolt of sexual rock energy. Situated in Portland, OR, Sallie Ford and her Sound Outside hit the road for their acclaimed second album, Untamed Beast, which is a mish-mash of rock, sex, and mashed potatoes. 26-year old Asheville, NC native Ms. Ford touched base with us via email to converse with us about Savador Dali, Billie Holiday, and Britney Spears. (L to R: Ford Tennis (29),Read More →