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January 27, 2007
Issue 2007:206

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We've got Thrills, chills, Dirty Water
What more do you need?
When the big beat hits ya
Comin' from your transistor
Like the T at full speed
When the big beat hits ya...

-- "Boston Lullaby," Dudick/Naihersey.
Copyright c. 1980 by Camaraderie Music, BMI.
All rights reserved. Used with permission.


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Let's start with a quick word about a couple albums just received,
shall we?


DIDI STEWART
"Harmonyville"

DIDI STEWART is among the biggest talents to come out of New England.
Though I believe she may be a New Jersey native, WE are taking credit
for her.

"Harmonyville" is the first Didi Stewart album of all-original
material in a good long while. The last one we have is the 1980s Didi
Stewart and the Amplifiers LP. The point of this project was to
tackle something Stewart had not previously done, and that something
turned out to be country music.

To grasp this, it could be helpful to go way back in living memory and
to radically switch fields of endeavor. Someone at the Boston Globe
once came up with a brilliant idea in which different Globe writers
covered stories entirely outside their usual field. Folk-journalism
great Scott Alarik, for instance, could have covered a football game
or fielded advice-column questions. A few Globe writers merely went
through the motions and got the assignment over as fast as possible.
But those staffers who got into the spirit really applied themselves
and turned out some genuinely amazing pieces. A tip of the hat to
former Globe classical music critic Richard Dyer, who appears to have
been a game spirit just like this - all the time.

Stewart seems to have been a similarly game spirit. She has worked
many bluecollar references into her writing for the new album and
brought a little country catch into her singing voice. The music is
generally country-pop and really quite good. It is not to be mistaken
for Hank Williams hillbilly music, but a great deal of it is a little
more country than a lot of the fare on "country" radio since the
1990s. So there is a really nice balance between country and pop.

The odd thing is that, with all Stewart's mainstream Adult
Contemporary-format skills, the best cuts tend to be real country
kickers such as "When the Going Gets Tough" and especially "Something
Wicked," which earns this writer's vote for first single.

Strange to say, to the best of my recollection, "Harmonyville" is the
very first Anthony J. Resta production I have ever heard. It is easy
to see why he has such a strong reputation and is much sought after
for production work.

Also strange to say, one of my all-time favorite keyboard players and
long-time Didi Stewart associate, Alizon Lissance, is represented in
the credits ... as a photographer. Swinging Steak Jim Gambino,
another personal favorite, is on Hammond and piano. Names in the
credits and "special thanks" bring back perfectly wonderful memories,
such as Kathy Burkly, Ellie Marshall, and Sandy Martin, as well as
Gambino and Lissance who were already mentioned.

It is fantastic to be listening to a full-length Didi Stewart disc
once again. Old-time Amplifiers fans may be a little surprised to
hear echoes of early Trisha Yearwood such as on "A Movie 'Bout Us."
But surprises in popular music are often good things, and Didi Stewart
fans are going to want to hear "Harmonyville."

With luck we will be able to give "Harmonyville" further consideration
after allowing it more spins in our player. For now I'll just add
that I enjoyed the album more the more I heard it.


ANAIS MITCHELL
"The Brightness"

"The Brightness" by

ANAIS MITCHELL

just arrived and I need to listen to it over the weekend, so all I can
say for the moment is quite preliminary. First, if you like the cover
art, there is a pretty decent chance you will enjoy the music. They
each have a similar sense.

A friend heard Mitchell live and was not entirely knocked out but said
she would like to hear her again with a band. That thought kept
coming back the one time I played "The Brightness." Mitchell has a
highly unusual voice which has the advantage of being perfectly
unforgettable. At many points in "The Brightness" the instrumental
arrangements, and the playing of those arrangements, are a very close
fit to Mitchell's singing. This is a sharp and well-executed
production touch.

Since most of my listening to this disc is ahead of me, it would
probably be best to leave it at this for the moment and try to get the
rest of this issue into a little better shape.

More later.


SNOWLEOPARDS
First of Two Items

SnowLeopards roar onto the scene
By Kerry Purcell/ Meet the band
Boston Herald Features Reporter
Thursday, January 25, 2007 - Updated: 07:35 PM EST
In Thursday's Boston Herald

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=179208


THE BRETT ROSENBERG PROBLEM
Seems To Be That Rosenberg Is Moving

"Rock Notes" column
Brett Rosenberg says goodbye to Boston

By Jonathan Perry, Globe Correspondent | January 26, 2007
In Friday's Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/01/26/brett_rosenberg_says\
_goodbye_to_boston/?page=full


BARN BURNING

Finding the balance
Barn Burning are tight and disjointed, loud and soft on Truck
By BOB GULLA
January 23, 2007 4:00:48 PM
In this week's Providence Phoenix

http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid32257.aspx

I have never heard a note of the music of

BARN BURNING

and have not been able to keep up with reading about the band, either.
So my interest, at the moment, is mostly in the group's name. Do any
of you recall an intriguing early-1990s Boston outfit called Big Barn
Burning? It is great to see two-thirds of the band's name back with us.

Anyway, from a quick glance, this Providence Phoenix column looks to
be a piece that will interest many of our readers.


LLOYD THAYER

Sidewalk strummer Thayer reaches lofty heights with `Birds'
By Daniel Gewertz/ Music
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - Updated: 10:56 AM EST
In Tuesday's Boston Herald

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=178591


SCOTT TOURNET BAND

Tournet Strikes Chord of His Own
By Alan Lewis
Special to the Vermont Guardian

Vermont Guardian
January 26, 2007
Culture Section, Page 18

Most likely, the

SCOTT TOURNET BAND

is not a spinoff of

GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS

any more than it would be a spinoff of the

USER SHORTY PATENT CO.

The Scott Tournet Band, instead, is pretty much what it says it is:
The Scott Tournet Band.

Tournet seems to have drawn from his old Goddard College group, The
Big Huge, as well as from the Nocturnals, User Shorty, his many
musical inspirations from the past, his mother's dance music, his
father's record collection, and, importantly, from his fellow STB
musicians to form his and the band's new vision of classic rock.

I interviewed Scott Tournet, for my article in this week's issue of
the Vermont Guardian, on what was the next-to-last day of recording of
the next Grace Potter and the Nocturnals album. He presented himself
as a very real and very likeable fellow and came across as highly
enthusiastic about the music he plays, the concert experience, his
bandmates, and the importance of each of these. There is nothing
quite like honest enthusiasm.

I hope a lot of readers of this newsletter who can get hold of a
hardcopy Vermont Guardian will do it.


ANTJE DUVEKOT
In the Greenfield (Mass.) Recorder

Sheryl Hunter's "Sounds Local" column in this Thursday's Recorder, out
of Greenfield, Massachusetts, is about singer-songwriter

ANTJE DUVEKOT,

whose career has been quite hot of late. I won't be able to get a
copy of The Recorder until later. But I did get to glance through
Sheryl's column briefly and noticed information that I have not seen
elsewhere.

If you can get hold of a copy of the Arts and Entertainment pullout
section of Thursday's Recorder, likely the effort would be rewarded.


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BRIEF ITEMS :


SNOWLEOPARDS

Meet: The SnowLeopards
By Kerry A. Purcell
Thursday, January 25, 2007 - Updated: 07:34 PM EST

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=179217


MADISON'S ON THE AVENUE
With Johnny Carlevale
and His Band of All-Stars

"Ok! This Saturday - Jan. 27 - you can catch Johnny Carlevale & His
Band of All-Stars at Madison's on the Ave - 150 Highland Street -
Somerville - Massachusetts! This is a rare two-set performance by the
band. They'll do one set as a boogie/R&B band and then another set as
a jump blues/R&B racket! DO NOT MISS THIS! Madison's on the Ave is a
new establishment. We need to let them know how much Boston area
folks love the roots music. So make a point to be there and support
us! The show starts at 9PM!"

-- Broken Rhythm Boys, "Somerville Massachusetts -
This Saturday," January 24, 2007


FLUTTR EFFECT
First of Two Items

"Dear friends of Fluttr Effect, first of all, huge thanks for all the
support we've been getting for the last few weeks. In a weird way
having been displaced and forced to work under less than ideal
circumstances has given us the extra motivation and your love and
support has brought back our faith in humanity. At least part of
humanity...

"Troy and I are doing fine. We moved to Cloud Club temporarily and
have much hope that we'll be back to our recovered place in a couple
of months. I am happy to say we are going back to playing live shows
very soon and can't wait to get all those hugs many of you sent over
the cyberwaves."

-- Fluttr Effect, "Fire Update and February
Shows," January 24, 2007

Toward the end of this issue appears most of the latest Fluttr Effect
press release.


TIR NA NOG

Speaking of the

TIR NA nOg,

David Johnston says,

"in case you have not heard, the nOg closing has been pushed back one
month to the end of february. so we now have six weeks left. see you
there..."

-- David Johnston, "nOg extension," January 22,
2007

I had not heard. Thanks once again to David Johnston for passing
along the word.


JIM ARMENTI
"Down by the Water"

After much delay, I finally got my hair cut; and people around town
have stopped calling me Mr. Mason.

We have a real deadline problem around here this weekend, so I was not
able to run down to Brattleboro's The Weathervane to pay my respects
to the

LONESOME BROTHERS,

in town for a show. But the Lonesomes have some big news. As the
actual Mr. Mason tells it,

"Country singer Pam Tillis has recorded Jim Armenti's 'Down by the
Water.' It will be on her new CD, 'Rhinestoned,' coming out March 20th!"

-- Ray Mason, "A Weekend of Lonesome,"
January 22, 2007

This seems to be a much-recorded Lonesome Brothers tune. Cheri
Knight, for instance, did a really nice version. My favorite would
probably be the recording made by the short-lived singer-songwriter
super-trio Cry Cry Cry.


BOSTON TEA PARTY
Rock Club

"Names"
Williams keeps 'em smiling
January 25, 2007
In Thursday's Boston Globe
"Tea Party going down in history" item

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/01/25/williams_keeps_em_smiling\
/?page=full

The Boston Tea Party is a very big part of New England rock history.


BOSTON TEA PARTY
Again

Plaque celebrates legendary Boston music venue
By Associated Press
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - Updated: 02:09 PM EST

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=178967


THREE DAY THRESHOLD
Scholarship Benefit

You may recall the involvement of a great band,

THREE DAY THRESHOLD,

in a scholarship benefit concert at the Paradise in Boston. In a
recent e-mail, Kier Byrnes of 3DT said,

"Hey! We sold out the main room at the paradise and raised nearly
$20,000 (in one night) for the scholarship! Amazing!"

-- Kier Byrnes, E-Mail Message, January 21, 2007

"Amazing" is the right word for it. Fundraisers, more often than not,
do not raise a lot of funds. What they do, instead, is raise
awareness. So a fundraiser that does both is an uncommonly powerful
thing. Congratulations to 3DT and all involved!


In Other
THREE DAY THRESHOLD NEWS

We made reference to a hankering for a new Three Day Threshold CD. In
a second e-mail, Byrnes said one is in the works. And while we would
hate to jinx the hoped-for release date by sounding too concrete about
it, we do note that St. Patrick's Day is coming right along.

"I'm really proud of it," said Byrnes. "We just finished up recording
at Camp Street and it sounds better than anything we ever did before."

-- Kier Byrnes, E-Mail Message, January 21, 2007


JESS TARDY

"The amazing Jess Tardy - our piano-playing, soul-shaking
singer-songwriting heroine who spent the last two years in Tennessee -
is finally back in the Northeast!" exclaimed a revved-up, exclamation
mark-enabled

NOAM WEINSTEIN.

"We've planned a dual show for Tuesday, March 20th, 8:30pm at Johnny
D's in Davis Square, but for those of you aware of what you've been
missing during Jess's absence who aren't about to wait til March for a
fix, I thought you'd want to know she's also doing a set this Sunday,
8pm at Toad in Porter Square. (I'll be playing in her band and singing
a song or two.)"

-- Noam Weinstein, "Jess Tardy," January 26, 2007


RANI ARBO
AND DAISY MAYHEM

"January is barely half over, but it's been a good year for us so far
- we're finally wrapping up our new CD (yet unnamed), to be released
in late May/early June. It's very live and full of energy, and we are
excited to send it out into the world."

-- Rani Arbo, "Daisy Mayhem January News,"
January 21, 2007

The previous Rani Arbo/Daisy Mayhem CD, "Gambling Eden," is a true
classic. The only thing it was missing was an obvious radio single.
Oh, it had Triple-A radio singles alright, just not one or two that
stood out as obvious. The prior album had a cut called something like
"Limo to Memphis," which is a fantastic example of what I mean. If
"Gambling Eden" had had its "Limo to Memphis," I'm betting it would
have sold twice or even several times over whatever it did. But even
as is, "Gambling Eden" was one of the best releases of its year; and
it has me really looking forward to the next disc.


RACHAEL SAGE

Sage is a terrific writer and recording artist. But even if she
wasn't, I'd still really like her for her name, Rachael Sage.

"**NEW MUSIC IN THE WORKS!**

"Rachael and her band have been hard at work in the studio working on
album #8. As fate would have it, they ended up recording 21 songs
instead of the 12 they originally were planning (!), so it may be a
while before this particular project is complete. In the meantime,
sleep-deprived inside sources confirm that this set 'will be to your
i-pod what marshmallows are to chocolate.' Hmmm..."

-- Rachael Sage, "Studio News, New Video and
More," January 20, 2007


VILLAINS
AND THE INSTRUMENTS THEY PLAY

One of our regular e-mail correspondents recently read that the
developers of the

GUITAR HERO

game have Guitar Villain and Drum Villain in the works. We can't rest
easy until they come out with Keyboard Villainess.


In the Stranger Than Fiction Department
MELIAH RAGE
(First of Two Items)

Hotline: Rage to hit road
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - Updated: 06:46 PM EST

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=177500

Does anyone remember whether Meliah Rage was originally on the Taang!
label?


end BRIEF ITEMS


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"Our last show until March is a doozie: It's WAAF and CARMELITA
celebrating 20 years of the Bay State Rock radio show!

"Party ground zero:

The Abbey Lounge,
Saturday, January 27, 2007 (tomorrow!),
8pm sharp for Temper

"For 20 years WAAF's Carmelita has been a vital part of Boston's new
music scene, finding and playing the bands and songwriters that have
made up the fabric of Boston music. [WAAF 97.7 / 107.3
http://www.baystaterock.com]

"She's asked Temper to open things up: Temper, 8pm sharp, on the Pub Stage

"Then, she's done the impossible and put together the following line
up on the Main Stage, following Temper:

Moving Targets 11:30pm
The Outlets 10:30pm
Hooray For Earth 9:30pm

"Super-rare reunion performances by these Boston's legendary bands
from the 80s and early 90s, The Outlets and Moving Targets.

"And, Hooray For Earth's fan base may be impossible to fit into the
Abbey. They are a local and growing-national favorite.

"DJ Springa from another of Boston's legendary hardcore bands, SSD,
will be spinning music in between bands all night.

"WAAF will be giving away free goodies, and food will be served. Yes,
food. NOW I've got your attention.

"Abbey Lounge, Somerville, located at 3 Beacon St., Inman Square (1
block down from Rosie's Bakery). http://www.abbeylounge.com/

$10.00/21+

"How can you say no?"

-- Carlene Barous, Temper/WAAF 20 Years
Celebration, January 26, 2007


THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

One of the artists I have written up most recently for print issued a
record not long ago on CD-R, with several thoughts about how it could
be turned into a more formal release later. It actually looks more or
less like a formal release now and sounds quite good. Overall, it is
an excellent record. But he issued it himself as a CD-R.

Just about anyone can do this. And a lot of people do. And because
people issue recordings in varying degrees of formal-ness and varying
degrees of official-ness - including some REALLY fine recordings - no
one really knows how many records are issued, say, in a year. But
these days, a very large number of small operators, collectively, can
compete like never before with the major labels. And this is one of
the main reasons the majors are having difficulties.

Relatively low-cost, high-quality recording equipment is now readily
available to individuals and small studios. Anyone can promote and
sell records worldwide via the Internet, and a huge number of people
are doing just that. Sales figures, no doubt, would vary wildly from
release to release. But some of these records sell in the thousands
and the tens of thousands. And every ten to twenty dollars you spend
on an independent release is ten to twenty dollars you're not spending
on product from the majors. It all adds up.

Nowadays a musician doesn't have to make a PRODUCER's record: artists
can make the record THEY want.

Fans shopping for music don't have to compromise or go away
empty-handed. If they look around, they can find records they will
really like.

Fans of music which attracts a decidedly small audience can still get
recordings of the music they favor. There are probably
hardcore/Broadway-fusion CDs out there to be had.

And from the point of view of many music fans, artists and small
companies are often putting out better records than are the major labels.

In a not-particularly-systematic way, a vast number of small operators
now combine to form formidable competition for the large music firms.
And that is a big part of the reason why major labels have been
having a tough time of it.

Countless records are coming out, a decent percent of those issued by
small-time operators are really great, and we buy them in strong numbers.


MOVING TARGETS
PRIME MOVERS
Somehow This Is Bringing to Mind
Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On"

Old is new
Moving Targets and the Prime Movers carry on
By BRETT MILANO
January 23, 2007 6:20:33 PM
In this week's Boston Phoenix

http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid32164.aspx

Few if any writers could present the

MOVING TARGETS

and the

PRIME MOVERS

the way the great Brett Milano can. So if you are interested in the
music of these Boston bands of yesteryear, this week's Boston Phoenix
is the place to turn.

Now what we need is a MOVING PARTS reunion. Remember The Moving
Parts? THAT was one interesting, forward-looking Boston band.


JOSH RITTER
First Part of a
Josh Ritter Doubleheader

"New EP, 'Live at the Record Exchange,' Available Next Week

"We're proud to announce that Josh will be releasing a special EP
(U.S. only) on January 30th, titled 'Live at the Record Exchange.'
The EP features six solo acoustic songs recorded during the summer of
2006 at The Record Exchange in Boise, Idaho's favorite record store.

"The CD includes two PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED songs: 'Bandits' (a Josh
original) and 'Daddy's Little Pumpkin' (a John Prine cover). The disc
is also housed in a beautiful, matte varnish finished digipak. And it
has a nice low price of $6. We're psyched about this great, new
little live album.

Track Listing:
1. Peter Killed the Dragon
2. Girl in the War
3. Good Man
4. Bandits (previously unreleased)
5. Daddy's Little Pumpkin (John Prine cover)
6. Wolves

"This EP will ONLY be available at select Indie record stores and
Amazon.com. To find out if your local store carries this, please
check www.thinkindie.com. Josh will also have copies of the EP for
sale at all of his shows on this tour, and soon at www.joshritter.com."

-- Josh Ritter News, "NPR's Talk of the Nation"
Etc., January 25, 2007


JOSH RITTER
The Sequel

"Josh Currently Recording His New Album!

"That's right, folks. We'll have a lot more information and details
about this to follow, but for now here's a note from Josh about it...

"'Hey All!

"'It's somewhere between below zero and very cold up here at "Great
North Sound Society," in the interior of Maine. The band and other
various studio folks are outside shooting bb guns and collecting
icicles for the nightly ice bouquet pre-dinner. There is a stove in
the living room, cold beer, and fireworks for dessert.

"'I'm making my new record, which has yet to be titled, but is already
kicking off a house party.

"'With everything going on in the music world, it's good to know that
you can just go out and record and perform - regardless of the
shifting changes of industry.

"'Doug is up here keeping track of it all, Zack looks like a giant
chili pepper with a mustache, Sam has got a firm hand on the control
panel and I'm very happy, feeling like a new sound is emerging and I'm
following the things that interest me in new directions.

"'Beware! A new record is starting to kick and scream under the Maine
skyline.

"'Be Well,
Josh"

-- Josh Ritter News, "NPR's Talk of the Nation"
Etc., January 25, 2007


FORGOTTEN INNOVATIONS

In the nineteen-teens, there was a man who would come up to Cape Cod
to play piano. This is far from one of the main things he is known
for. But this is the NEW ENGLAND Music Scrapbook, and it is a thing
that interests me. In the 1920s, he wanted to lead a Harlem band
along lines similar to those of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. But gee,
one thing led to another, and this man wound up heading up one of the
most influential music groups of all times. His name?

FLETCHER HENDERSON.

One of the band members (it's driving me nuts - I can't come up with
his name) started writing arrangements of a sort that we now call
swing. Louis Armstrong joined the band, and he was the main one,
though still only one, of some really amazing players in the Fletcher
Henderson bands. In the 1930s, there was Ben Webster and a
WAY-ahead-of-his-times acoustic bassist called Blanton (drawing a
blank on his first name). The changes in American music inspired by
members of the Fletcher Henderson ensembles and by the band itself are
truly sweeping. It is quite simply so that we would not be listening
to most of the music we hear today if not for Fletcher Henderson and
his bandmates.

The swing that came out of the Fletcher Henderson orchestra was the
modern jazz of its day. It was a HUGE change from the Dixieland jazz
and other styles that came earlier. Yet today, many people don't
think of swing as jazz at all, and it can be hard to remember that it
came about through the innovations of highly-creative musicians. In
the next decade, swing was everywhere, it was thoroughly accepted, and
it became taken for granted.

This is similar to an item I got published not long ago about one of
the all-time greatest banjo innovators,

TONY TRISCHKA,

who, not incidentally, is on a CD-release tour these days. Trischka's
developments in banjo-playing styles have been so widely adopted by
pickers playing at nearly all levels that it is now hard to remember
that they were innovations - and not so very long ago.

To my way of thinking, this is an important point and well worth
keeping in mind to enhance our appreciation of the music we are hearing.

Even music that sounds quite familiar is often built on a foundation
of wondrous changes made by brilliant writers and players of past years.


FLUTTR EFFECT
After the Fire

I am posting most of the latest

FLUTTR EFFECT

press release below. I am also including most of the accompanying
preamble because it seems to me it helps explain the situation of
Fluttr Effect members.

Fluttr Effect is one of New England's best bands, and the members'
difficulties from a recent fire are things we all ought to be aware of.

Here it is:

As you may have heard the Fluttr Effect headquarters were badly
damaged due to fire in the building on Dec. 29. It took a while to
recover some normalcy and although we are still not back to our place
we are going back to playing music. Here is a press release about the
first show after the fire. Hope 2007 is starting better for you than
it did for us! Be safe!

For Immediate Release

WHO: FLUTTR EFFECT
WHEN: Friday, Feb. 9 2007
WHERE: Middle East Downstairs
TIME/AGE/PRICE: doors at 8pm, show at 9pm, FE at 10pm, 18+, $12/14
ALSO ON THE BILL: Strictly for the Birds (CD release party)

Fluttr Effect will play their first show of the new year on Friday,
February 9th at the Middle East downstairs, the cd release for
Strictly for the Birds.

The band spent a month hiatus writing and developing new material,
collaborating on half a dozen new songs. This creative burst has been
tempered with the loss of Fluttr Effect's headquarters, the home of
guitarist Troy Kidwell and marimba player Vessela Stoyanova, after a
fire in an adjoining apartment at their factory-turned-artist-lofts
residence. Although the instruments were spared, water and structural
damage left the space uninhabitable and the future remains uncertain.
Fluttr Effect will continue touring throughout the spring, with dates
in New England and a return to the U.K. Marking Time, their second
full-length cd, was released in October 2006. The Boston Herald
included it as one of the Top Ten CDs of 2006. Reviews from the U.S.
and across Europe laud Fluttr Effect's "witty and intelligent song
writing" (Dutch Progressive Rock Pages) with "the right dose of
experimentality" (Rock Reviews). Marking Time "plays out with the
coolness of rock and roll and the urgency of sex" (Skope Magazine).
This complexly woven album showcases their particular brand of
thinkrock - smart, haunting, unrelenting rock music.

Fluttr Effect "command[s] the chops to play tunes with shifting time
signatures, the smarts to dive headlong into textural explorations,
and the joy and the will to improvise" (Boston Phoenix). The group is:
Troy Kidwell on guitar and vocals, Jason Marchionna on drums and
percussion, Vessela Stoyanova on MIDI marimba, Valerie Thompson on
electric cello and vocals, and Kara Trott on lead vocals.

-- Fluttr Effect, "Fire, Water and Back
To Playing Music," January 22, 2007


Hotline: Glasseye to depart Boston for Austin
By Michael Marotta
Thursday, January 25, 2007
In Thursday's Boston Herald

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=178983


Once again, metal rockin' Meliah is all the Rage
By Dave Wedge
Boston Herald Chief Enterprise Reporter
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - Updated: 05:02 PM EST
In Wednesday's Boston Herald

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=178985


BOB SEGER

Bob Seger
He's a father now, but triumphant return shows he's still a rocker
By Sarah Rodman, Globe Staff | January 26, 2007
In Friday's Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/01/26/bob_seger/?page=full


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is the NEW ENGLAND Music Scrapbook, we have readers all across the
southern tier of states - with a large number in Florida and another
large number in the Atlanta area. Even within the Northeast, we have
readers in each of the six New England states and many in New York and
New Jersey. The great majority of show listings would be of no
interest at all to most of our readers.

We make exceptions when show listings are part of an item of more
general interest. CD-release events are great examples. For us, the
main point of an item of this sort is that an act has a new record.
The show being announced is of secondary interest to us - if that - as
far as the contents of our newsletter goes.

We also make a few exceptions for shows in the immediate Boston
area. Our single biggest concentration of readers, as far as we know,
is in and around Boston. We understand from e-mails we receive that
we are able to help turn out an audience to many entertainments in the
Boston area. But even in the case of Boston shows, we make few
exceptions.

So, the general rule of thumb is that we don't post show
listings. In the very few, truly exceptional instances where we do...


... Shows can be canceled, sold out, or even moved to another
date or location. We recommend checking the Web, calling ahead or
otherwise confirming details.


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screen. Some addresses are so extremely long that they may have to be
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Issue 2007:206

Published no less often than monthly.
We're guessing eventually we'll settle
into an every-other-week schedule.

Copyright © 2007 by the New England Music Scrapbook. All rights reserved.

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