Photos! The Finals at WBCN 30th Annual Rock & Roll Rumble
Posted by Sooz | Filed under boston bands, boston rocks, concert photos, live music
Until this year, I skipped every other WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble since moving to Boston in 1994. I’m glad I finally ended that tradition and made it out to some of the shows at this year’s 30th annual rumble. The finals night was no exception. The winners, Girls Guns & Glory, played their best show I’ve ever seen (and I’ve been to a bunch). I finally got to see A.K.A.C.O.D., the union of Dana Colley (former Saxaphonist for Morphine), bass player and singer Monique Ortiz and drummer Larry Dersch. Low-rock awesomeness! Despite being a big fan of Girls Guns & Glory I thought there might be a chance that The Great Bandini would win it all. In the end, the rumble belonged to Girls Guns & Glory. Not bad timing for them: next week they’ve got their CD release party for “Inverted Valentine” downstairs at the Middle East on May 2nd. (Not so subtle hint: go, go, go!)
The Neighborhoods, who won the first Rumble thirty years ago, performed at the end of the night to a very enthusiastic crowd. After the music was over, Marc and John from Township, the 2007 Rumble winner, crowned Girls Guns & Glory as the 2008 Rumble winners. Yes, there was a tiara.
To view all the photos I took at the WBCN 30th Annual Rock & Roll Rumble, check out the photo set at Flickr.
Photos in this entry: David Minehan, The Neighborhoods; Marc Pinansky, Township
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April 26th, 2008
Video! Session Americana at the Lizard Lounge
Posted by Sooz | Filed under Video, americana, boston rocks, lizard lounge, residency, session americana
There aren’t enough words to really describe the awesomeness that is Session Americana. Fortunately they’ve got a few more weeks of their Tuesday night residency at the Lizard Lounge so you can see for yourself. The night starts around 9:30pm with a short break half-way through. After things start up again they play through the night until 1am. If you’re a music junkie like me, Session Americana is about as close as you can get to a religious experience — americana style.
Here are a few videos I took at one of their Lizard Lounge residency nights in April. They’ll be at the same spot at the same time each Tuesday until May 20th. If you want proof that Boston isn’t just another music scene, see this band live. The next best thing is buying Beer Town, their most recent album released in 2007.
Session Americana covers Aimee Mann’s “Deathly”
Session Americana covers Rodney Crowell’s “Ain’t Living Long Like This”
(They change the title; but I’m pretty sure it’s the Crowell song they are singing since most of the other lyrics match up.)
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April 22nd, 2008
Photos! Girls Guns & Glory Win Semi-Finals at WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble
Posted by Sooz | Filed under Girls Guns & Glory, boston bands, boston rocks, concert photos, live music, rock and roll rumble, wbcn
After The Lights Out played upstairs at the Middle East, I zoomed over to Harpers Ferry in Allston to see whoever was left to play at that night’s semi-finals of WBCN’s 30th Annual Rock & Roll Rumble. I saw most of Andrea Gillis’ super deluxe high energy performance. Next up was Girls Guns & Glory who played even better than their first round. The band’s cover of Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison got a lot of people in the audience dancing, including Holly from HUMANWINE (who also played earlier that night). After waiting half an hour for the judges to figure out who would advance to the finals, one of the WBCN DJ’s came up on the stage to announce that Girls Guns & Glory won. They’ll be playing on Friday, April 25th at Harpers Ferry along with whoever wins tonight’s semi-finals round plus The Neighborhoods, who won the first WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble thirty years ago.
View the rest of the photos I took of Girls Guns & Glory at the Rumble semi-finals in this photo set at Flickr.
Here’s a video I took of Girls Guns & Glory covering “Folsom Prison Blues” at Hennessey’s for their Halloween show October 2007.
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April 19th, 2008
