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Kept meaning to send this out sooner, but oh well. A band I play with is playing at Precinct, which is at 70 Union Sq., Somerville tonight. The whole night starts at about 8pm, we go on at 10:15pm sharp, cover is $5 (and it all comes our way, so you'd be supporting us directly!) […]

A brilliantly hilarious song by Cee-Lo, with a really cool typographical video. Check it.

So it's been a few months into 2010. I've made good on my promise to plug back into the music scene; been playing almost every Sunday with Rich Matra's reggae/jazz band Matrajah. My friend JoBeth got me the spot, and Rich has liked my playing so far. The band is definitely a rotating ensemble, with […]

It is! I’m playing a show tomorrow night with a band called Matrajah, at the Woodbine Club, located at 57 Blue Hill Ave, Boston MA.

So, I know I just posted about this, but I watched a few more of these, and the version of Gnarls Barkley's “Crazy” is just a really awesome, different take on the song. If I could, I'd embed it here, but there's no mechanism for that at the moment, so head on over and check […]

Found a new favorite website, courtesy of, of all places, Deus Ex Malcontent. It's From the Basement, a website set up to showcase live performances from artists in a studio setting. Filmed entirely in HD, sans host and audience, and lovingly produced by Nigel Godrich, the engineer & producer best known for his work with […]

So I came across this article a short time ago, and found it to be evidence of something I've felt to be true for some time now: that only the labels and the "big business" model of distributing music lose when music is free. Times Online, the online arm of The Times of London, has […]

It's rare that I buy an album. Even more rare that I spin the album all the way through more than a few times before cherry picking my favorite tracks. What's most rare though, is when I repeatedly listen to an album over & over again so soon after buying it. Yet that's what's happened […]

So the 50^th anniversary of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue was this week. A landmark album, to be sure; it brought modal jazz into the mainstream, and has continued to be an entry point into jazz for every generation that followed its release. There have been quite a few tributes to the music recorded on […]

One of my favorite bands, Maktub, is releasing a new album, Five,  in June, and they're previewing the whole thing on the website one song per week leading up until the release. The first track was posted today, & it seriously rocks. Go. Check. Rock: Maktub — Five