Articles tagged with: harper’s ferry
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Mondo Gecko is secretly becoming one of the hardest working live bands in Allston. Whether they are regulating Harper’s Ferry as an opening act, or playing in your friend’s basement, they are getting their eclectic improvisational sounds heard by the masses. The band consists of four Berklee grads, and they take a more carefree, hands-on approach to live shows that both engages the audience and let’s them connect on lengthier, complex jams.
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Again, we want to thank everyone who came out for our earthquake relief benefit on Monday, and would like to encourage you to keep donating (check out the handy link at the top of our page). There’s plenty more Haiti relief events happening in the coming weeks, which have been helpfully rounded up by the lovely Christine Liu over at CitySearch, here.
As usual, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to round up the best shows happening this weekend because, to quote Freezepop, “we just wanna rokk.”
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In an undeniably diverse Boston music scene, it has only taken The Organic Sound Project a matter of months to break out of their infancy and begin formulating their own distinguishable music. Spearheaded by a duo of Dans, Dan Batista and Dan Levenstein, who have been writing together for years, the group rounded out its complete five-piece lineup just a short time ago and are already clicking on many levels.
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In the midst of setting up the merch table, preparing for his own set, and making sure opener Cecil Otter was ready to take the stage, Sage was in somewhat of a frenzy when I first arrived at Harpers Ferry. But even in the whirlwind of preparations, his excitement for the night’s upcoming performances – both his and those of his friends who’d take the stage before him – was apparent. Not until he was seated on a couch for our interview did he seemed to calm, thoughtfully reflecting on his past work and talking, albeit guardedly, about his upcoming project. Even then, several times he stopped mid-sentence to check in on the other artists, only to resume a minute later without missing a beat. All in a day’s work for an indie rap legend/record label president.
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With dual frontmen trading lines at top volume and a dueling pair of DJs, there is no danger of boredom at a Big Digits show. The recent addition of a projected video backdrop now lends a level of full-on audiovisual confusion to their live set. My fascination with each of the elements of their show made it a bit difficult to keep track of everything the members of Big Digits were doing on stage, but the potentially dangerous levels of sensory overload didn’t prevent the crowd from dancing along frantically–although no one was a match for the energetic moves of TD.

