Band In Boston

Mel and company dropped by and cranked out the perfect soundtrack to a freezing cold month. In one of his tunes, he promises to start writing happier songs, but for January in Boston, this is about as chipper as it gets! Song List: After the Night is Through Driving West Amsterdam Day Like the Ocean […]

According to this photo, Low Red Land have the ability to shift time and space. Which might be true. Their songs always take us on mystical voyage through the dustbowl midwest of our minds. Or something. They came in quite a while ago, so it was nice to do another session with our improved gear. […]

Apollo Sunshine frontman Jesse Gallagher doesn’t stray away from a weird idea, whether it’s freeform-electronic-noise-something in the form of Electric Santa or pulling together an upright bass, violin, accordian, and trumpet (and a bit of drums at the end) and letting things flow.  And bringing a little class into the Flophouse with a Bach cover. […]

Usually, a Flophouse Session takes weeks or months of constant twiddling, tweaking, etc., just to make up for all the mistakes I made when we recorded it. Every once in a while, we get a band that’s just so crazy good (and good for the room) that it all comes together in a few passes, […]

We had Get Help in to do a session before they had ever even played a gig. And they did a fine job, thank you. Many months later, they returned with a new batch of tunes and some miles under their collective belt. I’d say they did an even better job this time. Song List: […]

Justin comes from the Woody Guthrie school of folk – catchy, emotionally charged, but with tongue planted in cheek enough to keep it from getting maudlin. Check him out at the Middle Easy (Upstairs) on January 30th.

Washington DC’s Middle Distance Runner came in as young tykes over a year ago. Check ’em out here and then make sure they’re on your to-do list down at SXSW this year!

With two direct decendents of the Boston Rock Royalty bloodline (yes, there are two Perry’s in the band), it might be more surprising if TAB wasn’t a great band. We forced them to quiet down a bit, and I think it worked out juuuuust fine.

Annie came in with our good pal Eric Wolfson and sang some mighty pretty songs.

Magic Magic’s album easily found its way onto our top 5 list of 2008. Their session will give you a hint as to why. Song List: Squid Hunt All I Know French Song God Song Over Your Heart Dr. Claw Washington or Bust

Here’s another one from the vaults. Ben and Alise came in with Reports and their relatively new endeavor Windy Smiles back near the end of ’07. Since then, they’ve gotten married and moved to Las Vegas. Which, in the middle of New England Winter, sounds like a truly brilliant plan.

The Faintest Ideas were our first visitors from across the pond – Sweden, to be exact. The latest we’ve heard is that they either broke up or went on hiatus right at the end of the tour, so this may be the last thing you hear from them for a while. Here’s to hoping they […]

Gotta go back to work tomorrow. My cleverness is sapped. Here’s a great band.

Reports always has something a little different up their sleeves. They decided to run the vocals through a delay pedal and guitar amp, just for giggles. I think it worked out.

Ayla and Davyd are a brother and sister from Oakland who share not only the letter Y in their names, but also a sense of songwriting and harmony that is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Song List: Hollow’s Cove Up the Long Tracks Mismanaged Skies Swell and Still How’s Your Dad? Old […]

Happy 2009 everyone! We actually made it – 31 episodes in 31 days. You know what? We had so much fun, let’s do it THIS month too! We still have a lot of great music to put out, so we’re going to keep it going. We can think of no better way to kick off […]

We first heard of George when he was lead singer (maybe “vocalist” is a better term) for Mad Man Films, one of the few insanely loud angry bands that we can tolerate. And in this case, tolerate means love. That was why we were so blown away when we heard his solo stuff, which is […]

Robbie stopped by a while back on a solo tour. This time around, he came in with These United States, with whom he was touring. He’s also in Scourge of the Sea. And he plays frequently with the Tarbox Ramblers. Busy guy for a robot.  For his second session, he had a bit of accompaniment, […]

Flophouse Session #150 brings us a new title format. Hopefully it makes it a bit easier to scroll through sessions on your portable music-playing device. Okay Thursday splintered off into two factions a while back – one kept the original name, and one became One Happy Island. This is the latter, and author or perhaps […]

Part two of our two-fer, it’s Boston’s Pink Mantis. They win the award for most parts broken on the mini drumkit. It could have just been a quirk in the cosmos, or it’s quite possible that the little guy just couldn’t handle the pure rock might. Either way. Song List: Mexico Mono Cactus Flower Castle […]