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    Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
    5:15 pm
    Blue Moose free show

    Tomorrow evening at 6:30pm, Blue Moose & the Unbuttoned Zippers are playing a free show at Titus Sparrow Park in Boston's South End, near the Prudential and Back Bay T stops.

    Blue Moose & the Unbuttoned Zippers is an acoustic quartet of mostly-strings, playing music that combines bluegrass, folk-rock, Cape Breton fiddling, and Norwegian & Swedish fiddle music.
    • Bronwyn Bird - Nyckelharpa, Accordian, Vocals

    • Andy Reiner - 5-String Fiddle, Octave Fiddle, Mandolin, Vocals

    • Mariel Vandersteel - Fiddle, Hardanger Fiddle, Vocals

    • Stash Wyslouch - Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals
    They're also amusing, entertaining, and cute :)

    Although they're local, I actually first saw them at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival last year, when they were in the emerging artists showcase. Out of 24 artists, audiences get to vote for three, and the three top vote-getters get invited back to perform as actual booked acts the following year - which Blue Moose did at this year's Falcon Ridge. I think they were #1 in last year's audience vote from the showcase.

    Wanna come join me at the free show?
    Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
    10:21 am
    Falcon Ridge advance ticket deadline tomorrow
     ----- Forwarded message from FalcRidge@aol.com -----

    Is almost here!!

    Advance prices on 4 day tickets end midnight Weds July 1

    That's $125 per person for all 4 days WITH ON-SITE CAMPING

    And $95 PP for all 4 days NO CAMPING.

    Prices go up $20 on both of these categories after that.

    Cheryl and I are here manning the phones til then - 866 325-2744

    You can also order online at www.FalconRidgeFolk.com or mail in, postmarked July 1 will do it.

    More news coming to the website shortly, crazy busy here, THANKS, Anne
    Thursday, June 11th, 2009
    7:13 pm
    Red Molly
     Red Molly, a wonderful 3-woman bluegrass trio who formed by singing together at their campsite the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival several years ago, will be at Club Passim in Harvard Square tomorrow evening at 8pm. Wanna go?
    Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
    7:19 pm
    Passim campfire festival this weekend
     Yesterday evening through Monday night, Club Passim is having its Campfire Festival - ~100 performers/bands over the course of the long weekend. Ones I particularly want to go see are:
    • Goli tonight 11-11:45pm: Valerie (cello & vocals) and Vessela (electric marimba), half of Fluttr Effect

    • Blue Moose & the Unbuttoned Zippers Sunday 7:30-8pm: Winners from the 2007 Falcon Ridge showcase (I voted for them)

    • Kevin So, Sunday 11:30pm set w/others: He just released his first new solo folk album in years, I need to get it.

    • Rose Polenzani, Monday 11pm set w/others: So weirdly good!


    Whichever ones of these I get to, I'll probably also see a few of the sets before & after them.

    Are you going?
    Do you especially recommend any of the artists on the schedule?
    Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
    10:48 am
    Play music for each other over the net
     MixApp is shared music listening software written by an MITish group of people. You join a MixApp group, in which there are "rooms" which are like online chatrooms with playlists. Anyone in a room can add music from their iTunes library to the room playlist, and anyone can rearrange or remove tracks. Everyone in the room hears the track that's currently at the top of the playlist.

    It's in beta testing currently, and among other things, that means:
    - Only mp3 files. You can't play mp4/aac or other files times from your library yet.
    - Only for OS X (Macintosh). They're working on a Windows MixApp client.

    If you're on a Mac, come join my MixApp group!

    You can listen to some of the rooms I've started up there and filled up with music (freefall, Ecto, 80's, Afropop Worldwide, Southern Rail, Finland, Massachusetts Music) or add your music to them or make a new room or two.
    Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
    2:28 pm
    This week in Camberville
     EDIT: Wrote this from a Wednesday point of view and posted a day early! Fixed now.

    Wednesday, Jaggery performs at Johnny D's in Davis Square, with the weird Army of Broken Toys. I hear Molly Zenobia will be a guest during Jaggery's set. 8:30pm, $10, 21+

    Thursday, Kevin So has a CD release concert at Club Passim in Harvard Square, for his first acoustic folk album in years. Paul Erlich opens. 8pm, $15, all ages

    Friday, it's Fluttr Effect's Spy Night at the Lizard Lounge (next to the Cambridge Common restaurant on Mass Ave, halfway between Porter and Harvard). An evening of (under) cover songs and spy music featuring the Covert Operation Chamber Orchestra! Starring Molly Zenobia as Golfinger, Mali Sastri as Pussy Golore, Brendan Higgins as M, Gonzalo Plaza as Oddjob and Goli as the Fembots! Come dressed as your favorite spy, double agent, ambassador, assassin or femme fatale! 8:30pm, $10, 21+

    Any good music you know of on the weekend or next week?
    Sunday, April 26th, 2009
    2:00 am
    NEFFA?
     Who's going to NEFFA today?
    Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
    5:03 pm
    ticket prices
     I've been looking for what's happening around Boston around the end of May / beginning of June, for some people coming in from out of town, and I happened to notice that Leonard Cohen is doing a couple of shows at the Wang Center.

    Tickets in the mezzanine and back rows are about $100, and range up to $253 for the front sections.

    Okay, he's good. But is an hour or two of Leonard Cohen really worth as much or more than, say, a full 4 days of the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival? (FRFF 4-day tickets were $100 in the super-early sale this year, but even at the gate tickets won't be over $200)

    P.S. Molly Zenobia with Mali Sastri at the Lily Pad in Inman Square this evening 7-10pm, "From the Inside Out". Lily Pad at 1353 Cambridge Street, all ages, $10 (I think).
    Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
    11:28 am
    Silhouettes

    Dada, Molly Zenobia's first interactive themed show at the Lily Pad last month with the Army of Broken Toys, featured such things as:
    - Molly performing one of her songs backwards
    - Each of the main acts drawing the other during the other's set
    - A collaborative audience poem
    - Molly with cellist Valerie Thompson, in the video on the right

    Molly's next in the series is this Thursday evening, 7-10pm, with Valerie and Vessela of Goli (the same Valerie who's playing cello in the video - there will be more Molly + cello at this show), Brendan Burns, and Nate Greenslit from Humanwine. And more art.

      Silhouettes - the joining of Music & Art
      Thursday, March 12th, 7-10pm
      The Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge Street (Inman Square)
      $10, all ages


      see the art
      listen to the music.
      be a silhouette.

      featuring:
      Molly Zenobia
      Vessela Stoyanova
      Brendan Burns
      Valerie Thompson
      Nate Greenslit

      constant surprises.
      forward art.
      ~molly zenobia


    P.S. Molly's next interactive show after Silhouettes will be April 23rd at the Lily Pad.
    Sunday, March 8th, 2009
    3:14 pm
    Camille Bloom (Mon & Tue in Cambridge)
     Sometime in the past few weeks, a friend recommended Camille Bloom to me, because she's got a couple of gigs in Cambridge. I no longer remember who it was who recommended her to me (are you reading this?) but since both gigs are this week, I finally got around to visiting the web site and listening to some songs, and I like what I hear, a lot.
    • Monday, March 9th, 9pm
      The Cantab, 738 Mass Ave (Central Square)
      Featured act at the every-Monday folk open mic, 8-10pm (her set at 9:something)
      21+, no cover

    • Tuesday, March 10th, 6pm
      All Asia, 332/334 Mass Ave (Central/MITish), 617-497-1544
      19+, $5 for 21+ / $8 for 19-20

    Wanna go?
    Monday, February 9th, 2009
    12:06 pm
    Falcon Ridge sale
     Falcon Ridge Folk Festival's special early pre-sale is on today (and tomorrow if there are still tickets left). Limited number of 4-day with camping for $100, 4-day without camping for $70 - both of those are $15 cheaper than the regular "early bird" advance ticket prices. 866-325-2744.
    Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
    9:51 pm
    Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
    12:52 pm
    SoCal-Mexican music?
     For years one of my favorite musicians has been Julieta Venegas, a Mexican-American woman who was born in LA and grew up in Tijuana. Recently, when I was in San Diego, I found a radio station playing Latino techno/dance/electronica I liked, so I kept listening to it occasionally the rest of the week... and started hearing music that reminded me of Julieta Venegas. Nothing quite like her, but some of the turns of melody, the feelings, the rhythms, were familiar to me from her music.

    I'm not entirely new to Mexican & Latin American music in general. We had a great Latin/Hispanic music coordinator & DJ at WBRS for the ~15 years I was there, who had a show right after mine for many of those years, and who built up quite a solid collection. We had separate subsections in our CD library for things like "Tejano", "Norteno", and "Cumbia", and I learned how to figure out what music went in which subsection, and what a "ranchera" or a "corrida" is. However, I don't remember hearing much music that reminded me of Julieta Venegas like this.

    That makes me wonder: Is there a whole musical cluster of specifically Southern Californian Mexican music, that Jose at WBRS didn't play much of, but that I would really like if I heard more of?
    Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
    10:51 am
    confluence
     At last night's show, Amanda Palmer...


    There was also other stuff, like a troupe of Australians, a lip sync performance of "can I stand under your umbrella" complete with water pouring on umbrellas, and a pianist I met at a party a few years ago. But I highlight those three because it's multiple instances of artists I loved before they were connected to each other, all being connected in one set of music.

    P.S. Here's a video of the same encore with ENSMB from Monday night's show, and a poor quality cell phone video of it that got the beginning of the song. Here's a pretty good video of I Google You from earlier this month.
    Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
    11:29 am
    Goli tonight, Giant Robot tomorrow
     This evening, Goli performs inside the Speaker Project at MassArt, 6-8pm, for free. Visually nifty as well as musically, and you can wander around the space and listen through a variety of objects.

    Tomorrow, Giant Robot Dance plays the Thursday contra in Concord MA, and they'll play the Greenfield contra dance in western MA on Friday evening.
    Thursday, September 25th, 2008
    8:07 am
    Goli in a sculpture
    Last night I saw Goli perform inside a large found-object sculpture at Mass Art, The Speaker Project. I watched most of the show sitting or standing inside the thing with them. Around the room were several similar but smaller sculptures full of listening nooks and shapes (my favorite, which [info]porcelaincat showed me, was listening through some orange traffic cones in a wall, cut at different angles).

    There are going to be musical performances at the Speaker Project several days a week, afternoons and evenings, for the next three months, and [info]speakerproject has the schedule. I definitely want to catch some more of these.

    Goli will be back on Wednesday, October 15th, 6-8pm. Come join me for that one!

    Any of the other performances look good to you?
    Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
    7:47 pm
    BT coming to Boston
     One of my favorite electronic artists, BT, is coming to Boston with his "Laptop Symphony" tour. If you've gone on a lot of roadtrips with me you've probably heard some of his music, probably from either ESCM or Movement In Still Life. Here's a video from a recent show that someone took in Seattle (sound quality okay but not good).
      BT - Laptop Symphony
      Friday, August 17th, 10:00pm
      The Estate, 1 Boylston Place Boston, MA 02116
      21+, $20

    More here.
    Sunday, August 10th, 2008
    10:44 am
    Molly Zenobia: 2 August shows, then gone for a while
     Molly Zenobia has two more shows coming up this month in Somerville and Cambridge, then she's going back to LA for a few months to record stuff. Both of these shows happen to be all ages, and inexpensive!
    Monday, August 4th, 2008
    10:17 am
    Cambridge: Molly Zenobia, Jaggery, Copal, Cyanide Valentine
    Molly Zenobia moved to Boston after four years in southern California, and her first public gig is this Thursday evening in Central Square, opening for a great lineup for anyone who likes gothy music with unusual sounds.

    First two acts are intense female vocals & piano, Molly and then Mali Sastri's band Jaggery (she also recently moved to Boston, from New York). Next is Copal, violin-centered tribal-goth/dance music. I haven't seen Cyanide Valentine yet, but I'm intrigued.

    Cyanide Valentine, Copal, Jaggery, & Molly Zenobia
      T.T. The Bear's, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge
      (in Central Square, next to The Middle East)
      Thursday, August 7th, 8pm-1am
      $9, 18+



    8:00pm - doors open.

    8:30pm Molly Zenobia - poetic, haunted, intense, singer/pianist Molly Zenobia makes her return to Boston after four years in the exile of Southern California!

    9:30pm     Jaggery - an experimental art-rock collective who work the dark edge of a genre-defying musical style (darkwave jazz?). Featuring Mali Sastri on piano and vocals.

    10:30pm Copal - string fusion with hip hop and world beats. Copal combines traditional sounds stemming from Spanish gypsy, Eastern European, Nordic and Middle Eastern influences with electronic beats and soundscapes of the modern age, accompanied by tribal-style belly dancing. Featuring Hannah Thiem in violin & vocals.

    11:30pm Cyanide Valentine - protean electro/synth-pop/rock band, the Cyanide Valentine focuses on rehashed textures and arrangements along with pulsing beats intended to move dancefloors and inspire reflection on one's past. Hannah plays violin in this one too.
    Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
    4:08 pm
    Falcon Ridge ticket, save $30
     One extra ticket to Falcon Ridge, full festival + camping, at the early bird price of $110 (if you get one at the gate, it's $140), if you can pick up from me in Central Square this evening or tomorrow morning/midday, or if you're somewhere convenient I can drop it off on the way tomorrow (Cambridge, Somerville, Newton, Waltham, etc. on the way from here to Falcon Ridge).

    I've also offerred this ticket elsewhere, so first comment here gets it if you provide enough information such that I can get the ticket to you and the money from you today/tomorrow, unless I get an email from someone claiming it first.
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