Exploit Boston! TV Episode #11: Bleu CD Release Party at TT The Bear’s Place
July 26, 2009
If you missed it, check out what I wrote about Bleu’s new album A Watched Pot that came out on July 14th. As part of a tour celebrating the release of the eleven gems of pop awesomeness, Bleu stopped in Boston to celebrate with his Boston fans who’ve been supporting him for many years before and after he relocated to Los Angeles in 2006.
Surrounded by fans and friends — a happy homecoming
Blue performed to a sold-out crowd and it was no surprise he was having a good time playing songs from an album that almost never saw a proper release thanks to a major label that held the songs hostage for many years after Bleu was dropped from Aware/Columbia Records.
Also joining Bleu that night were Peter Moore (singer from Count Zero), Air Traffic Controller (Bleu produced their upcoming CD) and Hooray for Earth.
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Photo Slideshow: Bleu CD Release Party at TT The Bear’s Place
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Video: Bleu performs a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature”
Video: Bleu performs “Boy Meets Girl”
Video: Bleu performs “No Such Thing As Love”
Video: Bleu performs “I’m In Love With My Lover”
Video: Bleu performs “No Such Thing As Love”
Video: Bleu performs “Watching You Sleep” (off an earlier album, Redhead)
Video: Air Traffic Controller performs at Bleu’s CD Release Party
Exploit Boston TV Episode #9: Mark Pinansky Solo at TT The Bear’s Place
April 21, 2009
Marc Pinansky, front man and guitarist for Boston rock band Township, previewed some of his new solo (and more subdued) material at TT The Bear’s Place in Cambridge on April 16, 2009. Amazing!
The Murder Mile at TT The Bear’s on January 16th
January 9, 2009
It’s not surprising when a band from around Boston has anglophile leanings, or Irish folk rhythms. They’ve got the skinny suspenders, Fred Perry sponsorships, dulcimers … you understand. But for the rollicking Anglo-punk Boston quartet The Murder Mile, there’s a big difference — they’re bringing it when it comes to the music. It’s perfectly evident on their song “No Solutions.”
Video: “No Solutions”
It begins with a lone acoustic decree: “This heart beats black and blue.” And from there it quickly gets serious. Distorted, Johnny B. Goode guitar bends shred over pounding drums. The song builds, drops out, and finishes with a punch. Maybe most impressive of all, the vocals channel Danzig-like tone and phrasing during the chorus. Elvis Costello once wrote of 1970s Belfast: “But it’s no laughing party/When you’ve been on the murder mile“. For 00’s Boston, The Murder Mile is party music.
Get Out!
Check out The Murder Mile at T.T. the Bear’s (10 Brookline Ave, Cambridge) on January 16th. They go on at Midnight. The night starts off with The Acre, Emergency Music, and the Televandals. The show is 18+ and tickets are $8. To get to TT’s, take the Red Line to Central Square and walk a couple blocks down Mass Ave towards Boston and take a right on Brookline Ave. If you’re driving, there’s cheap parking around the corner at the Green Street Garage (corner of Pearl Street and Green Street).
