Band In Boston

The Motion Sick are playing at the Midway Cafe on Saturday. Do check them out. Song List: Satellite Pre-Existing Condition Thirty Lives God Hates Kansas The Day After Grace Kelly

Wow, if you were disappointed by the shortage of songs last week, it’s your lucky day! Featuring The Autumn Defense, The Paper Chase, Yoni Gordon and the Goods, The Diamond Mines, The Boggs, Polarbaron, Truman Sparks, Universe Narrows, The Gulf, Heartless Bastards, The Motion Sick, Apollo Sunshine, Faces on Film, The Impossible Shapes, Kahoots, You […]

It’s SXSW time again. Jen just got back from Florida. We’re punchy and full of non-sequiturs. Try to cope. Featuring The Brother Kite, The Octave Museum, Mad Man Films, Vio/Mire, Mittens, Choo Choo La Rouge, Baker, Mean Creek, and Drug Rug. If you get the reference in the photo above, you win a free subscription […]

Tulsa kicked some serious ass at PA’s Lounge on February 24th. Here’s a rough approximation of what it sounded like. Have fun at SXSW, guys!

From Rhode Island, John McCauley, AKA Deer Tick, is really one of the freshest voices we’ve heard in years. Hear him fight through a nasty cold and make some beautiful noise. Song List: Baltimore Blues No. 1 Dirty Dishes Art Isn’t Real (City of Sin) Diamond Rings What Kind of Fool Am I?

March is RIAA Boycott Month. Chances are, you’ve been inadvertantly boycotting it for years, since they largely put out utter crap, but make an extra effort this month. Buy some independent music. Support music that means something. This week, we feature tunes by Eldridge Rodriguez (E.R.), The Seepeoples, Pants Yell!, The Faintest Ideas, Hands and […]

Sometimes we hold a session until a band comes back to town. Sometimes they break up before that happens. Damn shame, too, because Rescue (from Detroit) was a damn fine band. Let’s hope we get some more music out of at least some of these buys (and gal)!

Andy’s feeling fine again, thanks. Time to return to the important things, like capri pants and flip flops. Featuring Elvis Perkins, The Lemonheads, This is How Rumors Get Started, The Televangelist and the Architect, The Living Sea, The Dead Trees (solo), The Cyanide Valentine, The Essex Green, The Specific Heats, The Thermals, The Perennials, Badly […]

Yeah, Andy’s sick… So less talk, more RAWK! Featuring The Milling Gowns, Mean Creek, Drug Rug, The Mooney Suzuki, Emergency Music, Bad Jamie, Yoni Gordon, Shumai, Frank Smith, Viva Viva, Reverend Glasseye, Hallelujah the Hills, Tulsa, The Subjects, The Self Righteous Brothers, The Ludlow Lions, and The HalfNelsons. Oh! And if you’d be so kind […]

Township starts this whole thing off. From the Middle East (Upstairs) on January 28. They opened up with a song they worked out during sound check, and it just kept getting better from there. Set List: Baby Rock Me Give It To It Lady Ann The Major S.O.S. Cats in the Canopy The Summer of […]

Caitlin’s playing tonight at the Abbey Lounge. She was kind enough to deal with the neverending dog-onslaught in our living room and record some of the most beautiful songs you’ll hear today. Song List: Tough as You Radio Alaska A Gun Not About You Give In Green Hills

Here we are with our first BiB since switching hosting companies. Hope you like the new look! This week features Caitlin Frame, Kahoots, Apple Betty, The Singles, and exclusive new demo from Tulsa, Ra Ra Riot, a live track from The Teenage Prayers, Girls Guns and Glory, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Chin Up […]

As you can see, it was hard enough fitting these guys into one room, let along the photo. Or even the 8 tracks we have available. But by some sort of divine intervention, it worked out. And you will love it. Kinda trippy, kinda country-fried, kinda one of my favorite bands right now. We were […]

See? And you thought nothing hilarious ever happened in Boston. This week, we’ve got the great Ultimate Residency at PA’s Lounge, as well as plenty of other great music. Featuring The Turpentine Brothers, Tom Thumb and the Latter-Day Saints, The Shrinking Islands, Hands and Knees, The Dead Trees, Dearborn Valley, Midnight Movies, Hallelujah the Hills, […]

If you’ve ever heard Keys before, well, prepare to pass out. They took “stripped-down” to a whole new level. And you’re the lucky witness. They also do a pretty kickass cover of our favorite Hands and Knees song. Song List: Renee Jesus Drunk Alone H.D.F. Kitto I Thought About You Nicolene Solitude Save the Last […]

The Beat Awfuls. Damn. That’s the shit. Song List: Apples are Poison First Thing in the Morning Song Germs Drift Away Big Bombs Bursting Forever in the Sand We are Free Tired and Lonely

The Tiny Amps may have put out one of the best albums of the year. They strip it down and belt it out here in our living room. Go see them and 5 million other bands this Friday at the Middle East, Downstairs! Song List Tabletalk Cock Block The Four On The Floor Amway Zombies […]

I’m tellin’ ya – that fat kid is taking it all. This week finds us with out first ever 3-pick-of-the-week (and 1st double-hypenated – crap, that’s triple) show. And we could have picked 5 or 6. Please get out and see at least one of them! Featuring Muy Cansado, The Press, 28 Degrees Taurus, Caspian, […]

Chris, Lisa, and David came in and banged out some great tunes, none of which were in Spanish, as far as I can tell. They’re playing this Wednesday the 31st at The Middle East (Upstairs). Go do that. ¡Vamonos! Song List: Telemundo Tú Eres Mala The Other Night Stockholm Syndrome Erased Riding High Couldn’t Have […]

Thanks to Laura for this week’s image. You didn’t think we’d find a use for it so fast, did you? This week features some great stuff, including The Dirty Fences, The Motion Sick, The HalfNelsons, Corin Ashley, Cherryaxe, The Essex Green, an Exclusive new Township track,Stephen Brodsky’s Octave Museum, Age Rings, Carrigan, The SnowLeopards, The […]