[T]he name He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister represents Kolar siblings Robert and Rachel, but the sound and energy of the Los Angeles band is actually created by five unique individuals from all over the performance landscape. Singer and guitarist Rob Kolar is an award-winning songwriter and actor; his sister, percussionist/singer Rachel Kolar, runs a theater company in L.A. along with drummer/tap-dancer Lauren Brown; upright bass player Oliver Newton is a composer and performance artist; and guitarist Aaron Robinson has toured with amazing bands, including Akron Family and Sea Wolf. The particular reason I point this out to the reader…
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[L]ocal band Darlingside released their first full-length album, Pilot Machines, this past summer and have been on the road pretty much nonstop, touring up and down the east coast this year. It has been two years since their debut, self-titled EP put them on the Massachusetts indie-rock map and their latest offering shows that the boys have become a much more tight-knit group. It is hard to simply call Darlingside an indie-band, or folk rock band, as the music in Pilot Machines transcends normal music reviewer label language. Sure they have fantastic harmonies, beautiful strings, and showcase crazy mandolin playing…
1 CommentThe Giving Tree Band – Cold Cold Rain [C]hicago area boys The Giving Tree Band released their fourth album, Vacilador, this past Tuesday on Crooked Creek Records. The new album offers up a warm helping of Americana with a generous side of folk rock, served with soothing harmonies, fiery fiddle and banjo picking goodness. Fink brothers Eric and Todd created the band in 2003 after disbanding their previous group, Stone Samahdi, to steer their sound in a new direction. The first album as The Giving Tree Band, Unified Folk Theory, was released in 2007. Coming in at 33 tracks, that…
Leave a CommentPhotos by Boston Concert Photography [O]n Friday, September 28th Jack White paid a visit to Boston to promote his solo album Blunderbuss and remind everyone at the show exactly who is in charge. The last time Jack was in our neck of the woods he was behind the drums with his last super-group side project, The Dead Weather, back in the summer of 2009. When I asked fans around the arena if they had been to that show most of them said no. When asked why did they miss a chance to see Jack White in Boston the most common…
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Leave a Comment[B]ritish surfer-folk artist Ben Howard stopped by the Paradise Saturday night, playing to a sold out crowd. From the first song he played, Ben had the crowd captivated. And I honestly can’t remember if I’ve ever seen one guy, with one debut album, have the entire audience singing along, loudly, to almost every song he played. Actually, it’s the perfect evidence of Ben Howard’s charm. People love him for both his beautiful folk songs and for his humble and adorable British demeanor. Ben, his drummer and his cellist/bassist opened with the slow and quiet Everything, which features a bit of Ben’s…
Leave a CommentField Report – Taking Alcatraz [A]fter months of hype following a stellar showing at SXSW, as well as a gig playing Daytrotter’s Fourth of July barn show, and free tracks available for download via their website, the debut album from Milwaukee’s Field Report is finally out. An anagram of frontman Chris Porterfield’s last name, Field Report has crafted a fantastic album, moody and poignant. A stellar songwriter, Porterfield has been holding onto these songs for 5+ years, rewriting and reworking them ever since his last band, DeYarmond Edison broke up in 2006. I’m betting that you probably haven’t read a…
Leave a CommentListen >> Band of Horses – Knock Knock [T]wo years after their breakout album Infinite Arms, South Carolina (by way of Seattle) boys Band of Horses let loose the highly anticipated Mirage Rock, their second with Columbia Records. This is also the second time around with the current lineup and the new album benefits from the kinship that comes with a steady, comfortable band. The first single “Knock Knock” is also the first track on Mirage Rock and lets the listener know that they are in for a slightly more rocking version of Band of Horses than they might be…
Leave a Comment[B]ack in 2009, the Brooklyn foursome Grizzly Bear released their third studio album Veckatimest, placing on and topping many year-end Best of 2009 lists. Though it was their third effort, it was the album that garnered them wide acclaim and solidified their spot as one of indie rock’s elite. But it’s been almost 4 years since and now the guys, Ed, Dan, Chris and Chris are back with Shields. For the past few months, I’ve had Sleeping Ute and Yet Again on repeat. But just as I had to do with last week’s Coexist by the XX (another band following…
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