• Congrats yet again to GATEWAY MASTERING's ADAM AYAN. Last week he took home yet another LATIN GRAMMY, for his work on JUAN LUIS GUERRA's Asondegerra. Dude's gonna have to build a bigger mantle.
• Big weekend coming up next: CD release shows for A-FRAME & MIKE CLOUDS's new hip-hop disc; the KENYA HALL BAND's new soul effort; and CLUBBER LANG's new heavy-rock disc. Something for everyone, people.
• A couple weeks later, check out the new disc from JEFF BEAM. Called Venus Flying Trapeze, it'll be 12 tracks of power pop and released with a big gig on December 10. The band will include DAN CAPALDI, SAM PEISNER, TRAVIS KLINE, WILL GATTIS, and KEVIN SALONEN, and hand-made limited-edition hard copies of the album will be available exclusively at the show.
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- The smooth pop-rock of Zach Jones's Broken Record
For an album to be more than just a collection of songs, it's more important that the songs all feel the same than sound the same. No one wants 10 tracks all in the same style — that gets old unless everything is terrific — but there should be an aesthetic that carries through ballad and banger both.
- Photos: Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents at TT's
Photos from Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents at TT's
- In the Audience's untitled disc, and Sparks the Rescue does their Worst
IN THE AUDIENCE are ready to follow up their debut disc, What Lives , from this fall with a new, as-yet-untitled EP that they're planning to release March 31.
- Taboo + Ancestral Diet at the Apohadion, March 8
When I entered the Apohadion, the room was nearly dark and the stage was empty.
- SXSW Music 2011 Photos Day 1: the adventure begins
Phoenix staffers explore SXSW Music on its first day, March 15, 2011.
- SXSW Music 2011 Photos Day 4: Beach Fossils, Class Actress, Herra Terra, MSTRKRFT
Beach Fossils, Class Actress, Herra Terra, and MSTRKRFT perform during SXSW Music Festival in Austin, TX on March 18, 2011.
- The 2011 WBRU Rock Hunt semi-finalists, pt. 2
Round One of the 2011 WBRU Rock Hunt semi-finals is in the books, following a runaway victory in Newport and a narrow escape at the Spot Underground last weekend. Six more locally-culled artists will have at it this weekend, vying for the final two spots in the final four, which will take place at the Met on April 8.
- Atomik at Bayside Bowl, March 15
Having a DJ (or, in this case, two) play your bowling night is a luxury, but damned if it doesn't seem like an obligatory one on occasion.
- Lou Barlow talks the talk
He may have been born in Dayton, Ohio and settled down in Los Angeles, but for a lot of us, Lou Barlow will always be a Western Mass kid.
- Photos: Cold War Kids at House of Blues
Cold War Kids perform live at the House of Blues on March 22, 2011.
- The Jay Berndt revival continues
A few months back, former Kilgore frontman Jay Berndt unleashed his official solo debut Sad Bastard Songs (Rusty Knuckles Music), a fistful of growlers we're highly fond of around here.
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