Music

Some of our favorite bands from Boston (or who frequent Boston clubs):

Mission of Burma - Boston
Mission of Burma has reformed and are recording new material right now at Q-division records here in Boston. One of the more influential Boston bands.

Dresden Dolls - Boston
Describe themselves as Brechtian Cabaret Punk. They have a dynamic, and theatrical stage presence, and the music and musicianship are grade A.

World/Inferno Friendship Society - New York City
Punk/ska/gospel featuring horns, piano, punk rock guitar, a number of percussionists, and a mayhem-inducing live presence.

The Gentlemen - Boston
One minute they're crushing hearts with the catchiest skinny-tie songs Graham Parker never wrote; the next they're stumbling around like Johnny Thunders fronting the Stones.

ChoExpiriment - Boston
This band or project defies any rational categorization. The idea of a musical scientific experiment is the idea here, as in the name of the group.

Soulive - Boston
Energetic, soul-jazz-funk-hiphop blend, but in a james brown-esque gritty good way.

Beat Science - Boston
Beat Science plays music time-warped out of the 20's and 30's...in an amalgam of circus music, funeral dirges, music for burlesque, tangos, and marches...all jump-started, braked, and accelerated by their ringleader. Exasperated by all of this, the musicians often rebel by soaring into wild improvisations.

Sam Kininger Band - Boston
Sam Kininger has developed a distinctive, organic sound on the saxophone that is strongly expressive. He consistently demonstrates his technical dexterity and rhythmic precision while maintaining his honest and innovative exploration of musical improvisation. The music that Sam performs can best be described as heavy, rhythmic and pure.

Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores - Providence, RI
Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores have the distinction of cramming the most musicians I have ever seen fit onto the Middle East downstairs stage. Their main competition being Reverend Glasseye and his Wooden Legs, Gogol Bordello, and World/Inferno Friendship society. The Eyesores have cello, violins, drums, guitar, saxophone, french horn, tuba, accordian, stand up bass, and additional percussion to cram up there along with all the musicians that play them. I think I counted 14 alltogether but it was hard to keep track. Great music in the spirit of the scene with dark themes and haunting melodies.

Valhalla Kittens - Boston
Valhalla Kittens put on an unusual show to be certain. The music is, well, kinda glam metal, but not the stuff that was on the radio in the 80's. This was much more of a T Rex, New York Dolls meets Iron Maiden, Judas Priest kinda situation. Sounds like a formula that could go terribly wrong but in the case of the Valhalla Kittens they balanced the right amount of chops and sleaze to pull it off. Plus the costumes and choreographed dancing, that's right, really make their shows pop.

Read Yellow - Boston
Read Yellow is the energy of noise. Within this energy lie melodic comfort, tales of murder and life, and a perfect congregation of fury and passion.

Reverend Glasseye and his Wooden Legs - Boston
The Baleful old-timey tunes of Reverend Glasseye and his Wooden Legs sound like what would have come drifting out of tents sometime in the early part of the century; medicine-show hokum, firebrand proselytizing, and freakshow hyperbole set to the sinister rural american musics of the 1920s and '30s, all of it delivered with a Waits-ian flair for sideshow weirdness.

Ho-Ag - Boston
This noisy, self-proclaimed "art-trash" four-piece cleverly melds lo-fi punk with slacker attitude, metal grit, and trippy avant guarde.

Gogol Bordello - New York City
'A Ukranian singer, Russian Fiddler, Israeli guitar player, Floridian drummer, Russian accordionist and Israeli sax man walk into a bar. Then, if it's Gogol Bordello, they tear the place to shreds.'