It’s been a pretty solid week for some of my favorite local acts. Each of them has been profiled on Popblerd before-and if you haven’t given these folks a listen yet, you definitely need to correct that! Last Friday, I was fortunate enough to catch Bad Rabbits at a wild, sold out Brighton Music Hall show. There’s been a solid buzz around these guys for a while now, their album Stick Up Kids has been in heavy rotation at Blerd HQ ever […]
Not Too Cool for Schools (Rival Schools, Brighton Music Hall 3/6/11)
This past Sunday evening Rival Schools took the stage at the newly renamed and slightly redesigned venue now known as Brighton Music Hall. With the band’s original line-up of Walter Schreifels, Ian Love, Sam Siegler, and Cache Tolman together Rival Schools tore through old favorites like “Travel by Telephone” and “Good Thing” along with jams from the new record Pedals including the single “Wring It Out”. They also jokingly played a ska versions of their own’ “Good Thing” and Metallica’s […]
The Killer Bs Invade Boston! (Bleu, Jim Boggia & Tracy Bonham, 3/4/11)
It was an interesting concept-three singer/songwriters-not playing on a bill in some kind of descending order, but playing together. Wasn’t totally what I was expecting, but Bleu, Tracy Bonham and Jim Boggia certainly pulled off the round-robin concept when I went to see them at Brighton Music Hall this past weekend. The three troubadours put together a pretty interesting show. They played the majority of the show as a trio (alternating “featured” performances), although each artist also performed a short […]