Skip to content
Music Ravings
Music Ravings

by Matthew Keefer

Primary Navigation Menu
Menu
  • Interviews
  • Music Reviews
    • Recommended Albums
    • Albums of the Year
    • Live Music
  • From the Mgmt
  • About
  • Shop

RG Lowe – Boston 6-26-17

RG Lowe Gets Down in Boston

2017-07-14
By: MadMattKeefer
On: July 14, 2017
In: Live Music
With: 0 Comments

Last we’d interviewed Balmorhea fountainhead RG Lowe, he’d given us a heads-up on the band he was touring with. And rightly so. But we’ll get to that in a second. Nellie Fitzgerald (whose FaceBook page can be found here) was the second in O’Brien’s lineup in Boston. She followed a mostly covers section by Dan Barracuda (who was pretty good! Though we didn’t really dig his original, “Something Crazy”). Fitzgerald herself, right here: … has a voice. A good voice. We liked the bit of funkiness that her band opened with, and greatly appreciated not only her voice, but her stage presence. She’s certainly aRead More →

RG Lowe: “Music Comes Together On Its Own Time”

2017-06-19
By: MadMattKeefer
On: June 19, 2017
In: Interviews
With: 0 Comments

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 →

Our Newsletter

Recent Posts

  • Chapter Eleven of “Dead Souls:” Make Amends
  • Read My Interview in The Scallop!
  • “Dead Souls: An American Poem” Chapter Four: Beware the Doppelganger
  • Dead Souls Lesson, Ch. 3: Don’t Sell Votes to a Cheater
  • Free Novel – “Dead Souls: An American Poem” Ch. 2 Is Up!

Recent Comments

  • “Alright” is an Understatement: Nathaniel Rateliff Introspects and Soars – Music Ravings on The Folk Fest ’17: A Sunday Stroll
  • Tall Tall Trees Towers Above with Most Beautiful Single – Music Ravings on Newport Folk Fest, Friday
  • It’s Officially a (Pussy) Riot in the US – Music Ravings on 7-Inches for Planned Parenthood. Support.
  • “Alright” is an Understatement: Nathaniel Rateliff Introspects and Soars – Music Ravings on Nathaniel Rateliff Sweat It Out on Stax Debut
  • Newport Folk Fest Sunday: A Quick Gallery – Music Ravings on Carlos Hernández of Cimarrón: All the Time of Our Life is Music

Archives

Terms and Conditions Designed using Dispatch. Powered by WordPress.