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Weekly Wrap-Up: 3/6/16

Araz Havan
Spring is just around the corner, and I can’t wait. Warmer weather means I won’t be toting a voluminous jacket to concerts, and really, is there anything better than skipping coat check? No, there isn’t. Gallery 263 Launches Kickstarter Campaign Gallery 263 started...

Weekly Wrap-Up 2/21/16

Araz Havan
  This week “The Walking Dead” is back on air and The Donald is still somehow a front-runner in the race to be president. Music, at least, is a nice constant, and will never frighten you like zombies on fire...
The Takeover

Weekly Wrap-Up: 2/14/16

Will Sullivan
I got to spend Valentine’s Day weekend with my one true love: local music. I hope you were as lucky as I. Berklee Releases Oh MalĂ´ Video The opening of “As It Were,” a song that looks woefully on the...

Nabi Music Center: Making Music Education More Accessible

Tom Dillon
Make music more accessible and share the love of music through education: These are the defining messages Nabi Music Center, a website and service connecting children (or anyone) with instructors throughout Boston, seeks to spread. Nabi, conceived and founded by...

Weekly Wrap Up: 2/7

Araz Havan
e’ve had some ups and downs in Boston this week, from the beautiful snowfall to the icy black roads, to our still glaring omission from Super Bowl 50. At least there’s always something happening in the music scene to keep...

Weekly Wrap Up: 2/1

Will Sullivan
As you wait for the first votes for Donald Trump for president to be counted in Iowa, distract yourself with a dose of the weekly wrap-up. Here’s the recent news from the Boston music scene I was able to dig...
Pell, Rapper from New Orleans

Interview: Pell

Jon Simmons
n a time when popular hip hop is saturated with trap beats, off-key singing, and autotune, melody-mindful rappers like Pell stand out. By no means mainstream, but beginning to garner press from major rap music media outlets like Complex, XXL, and DJBooth, the...
Cover Art for Swept Up - The American Symphony of Soul

Album Premiere: Swept Up – The American Symphony of Soul

Jon Simmons
“Bombastic, yet tender. Explosive, yet reflective. Soul-stirring and movement-inducing.” This is how Boston’s A.S.S. describes their music. Butt jokes aside, The American Symphony of Soul is Boston’s latest funk/soul powerhouse to watch, formed at Tufts University in 2011 out of...

Weekly Wrap-Up: 1/25

Will Sullivan
Other than the release of Seth Myers’ Boston Accent trailer, last week was a quiet one in Boston, both musically and meteorologically speaking. While D.C., Philly, and New York were brought to a standstill by wintery precipitates (NYPD even threatened to...