If anything, the members of St. Helena, Jessie and I can agree on one thing: Allston bars, you’ve gotta knock it off with the Top 40 radio bonanza.  Patrick, Shawn, Chaeten, Magen and Keith all mirrored our distaste for the onslaught of Britney and Katy and Rihanna our ears were met with over the course [...]

The leaves are changing, the kids are back in town, and everyone’s trading in their iced coffee for the real thing as fall has hit full force in Boston.  For the last month of this short-lived summer, Gab, Jessie and I spent at least a night a week at the Lizard Lounge and it’s smaller, [...]

When I think about the Boston music scene, I think of a big, boisterous group of people who support local music by going to each other’s shows, who promote the releases and events being put on by friends of theirs who also happen to be in local bands, and who can play the “Oh, you [...]

For those who have been dropping by Toad on Monday nights to see the Tim Gearan Band do their blueey, country-flavored set, a change is in store: A couple of weeks ago, Tim let it be known that his residency at this bohemian hangout and respected music spot would be phased out over the month [...]

Amidst the singers and songwriters and banjo pickers of the thriving Somerville/Cambridge music scene, we can say one thing for sure: Though each musician hailing from Davis to Union to Central possesses a noteworthy trait setting them apart from other artists in the community, not one of them uses the jaw of a donkey in their percussion section like the David Wax Museum.

It’s official: We here at TeaParty Boston have a major, major girlcrush on Jen Johnson of Static of the Gods. The piping voice of this huggable, bleach blonde and tattooed songbird soars over distorted power chords as if thats what her vocal chords were created for, and she’s got mad love for Boston as her [...]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many people collectively try to light a cigar as I did the night that Jessie and I wound up talking with MEandJOANCOLLINS in a deserted parking lot in Central Square. Jessie, Bo, Jen, Jen’s girlfriend, Kathleen, and I tried to assist at various points in the lighting [...]

It was a gorgeous Indian summer afternoon, there were root beer floats on the table, and Mark Zaleski was cracking up about how he and the members of his band somehow wound up all smushed in the back of a van in California. What more could you ask for when it comes to a pleasant setting for an interview? Jessie and I met up with Mark for a quick snack and a quick chat at Cafe Luna in Central, and this meeting’s been a long time coming…

A swarm of designers, crafters and vintage mavens is set to descend onto the Baldwin School in Cambridge for the Fall/Winter season of Design Hive.

Few things are better than watching a group of talented, guitar and tambourine-wielding friends share their music and hometown pride on stages across the country, and for that reason few bands are more invigorating at the moment than Chapel Hill seven-man (and woman!) indie act The Love Language.  Back in April, The Love Language somehow [...]