Conneticut’s B.O.M.B Fest has blown up since last year. B.O.M.B Fest is an acroynym for Bring Our Music Back. This year B.O.M.B Fest has moved to a larger venue, The Comcast Theater in Hartford and will take place May 28th through the 29th. The headliners are epic, national acts Weezer, George Clinton, Snoop Dogg, Best Coast and many more. But the feature that makes B.O.M.B Fest unique and locally special is that they feature 25 local acts that will preform through out the day. 500 local bands from all around New England auditioned to play B.O.M.B Fest. Some of the chosen featured local acts are: David Wax Museum, The Guru, Distoria, Urban Sun, Cosmic Dust Bunnies, Wry, Forget Paris and Dirty Dishes and several others, mostly based out of Conneticut. There will be three stages with music being presented from 11am – Midnight. 2 day passes are still available here. The Deli will be at B.O.M.B Fest for the second year in a row covering both days. See you there.

— Meghan Chiampa

Get the new EP from Static of the Gods and celebrate the release of Endless Wave’s full-length on Friday, May 20th at TT the Bear’s.

12:00 — Static Of The Gods
11:10 — Endless Wave
10:20 — Soft Pyramids
9:30 — Vary Lumar
8:45 — Emily Peal

Friday, May 20, 8:00pm
TT the Bear’s, Cambridge, MA
18+, $10

–Chrissy Prisco

The Somerville Porchfest is taking place this Saturday, May 21. Essentially, it’s like open studios for musicians. The event started four years ago in Ithaca and local music-lover, Nancy Goodman, thought it’d be great to replicate it in Somerville, MA, with support from the Somerville Arts Council.

There will be 75+ musicians/bands performing on porches throughout Somerville during the afternoon of May 21st — and they really run the gamut of types of music. Ranging from bollywood funk, cosmic americana, blues, Moroccan, Balkan, gospel, American space rock and clawhammer banjo.

The city will be divided into three sections and each will have two hour time slots: Union Square and East Somerville musicians play from 12-2, Winter Hill and Ball Square from 2-4 and Porter, Davis, and Teele from 4-6. Look for red balloons on participating houses! This event will happen rain or shine. Maps are available via the website.

–Chrissy Prisco

Starting last week, Old Abram Brown, have gone on a "blog tour" releasing exclusive videos of the band to indie music blogs every Friday. The Deli Magazine New England is proud to present the video for Silhouette, a song off the band’s sophomore album, Restless Ghosts. The video was recorded in the band’s hometown in Nashua, NH at The Hunt Memorial Library.

From the very begnning, Silhouette swells with energy. The rattling guitars and powerful vocals make this a song you want to turn up full blast and dance around the room to. This band has so much heart and intensity, both of which are apparent on this track.

–Chrissy Prisco

The following is a Q&A with Sand Reckoner, one of the deli’s bands of the month in April! Be sure to check out their website for free downloads of The Shepherd EP and Sing Us Your Lies.

deli: How did the band start?
Sand Reckoner: Matt and Ben have been playing music together for around 8 years now, and with Jon for the last 4.  After being in a few different groups together, and relocating to Boston in 2009, we found our sound coming together in much more concrete way.

deli: Where did the band name, Sand Reckoner, come from?
SR: Ben found the name of a band while reading about Archimedes’ theory "The Sand Reckoner".  It comes from a paper Archimedes wrote about a hypothesis of how many grains of sand it would take to fill the entire universe. 

Click here to read the rest of the Q&A.

–Chrissy Prisco

The blend of blues, americana, and Roussillon (Provencal?) folk music could be viewed as either the next fusion for bored Berklee kids to kick around/to death or as an exciting avenue for musical exploration, possibly because of it’s relative obscurity in the pop music landscape.  Maybe there is another viewpoint I’m missing.  I don’t know.  It’s polarizing, is what I’m saying.  But for those of you who may enjoy a bit of sonic adventure (being a fan of Tom Waits and Gogel Bordello wouldn’t hurt either), Mighty Tiny would be well worth your time.  Their new release, White Dog Rough Again, skips jauntily through a number of different styles and genres within each song, creating an interesting, if somewhat manic, listening experience.  The best feature of this band is if you don’t like a particular part of a song, just wait for a few seconds and it will be completely different.  The worst part is that you may not like the following parts either.  You shouldn’t necessarily listen to this as a soundtrack for any particular task or commute, but I did find it an enjoyable exercise in active listening, which I don’t often feel compelled to do. 

You can preview the album from their website, though I would highly suggest going to see them perform live at their CD release party at the Middle East Downstairs on Friday, May 13th, before reaching a purchasing decision.

–Charles Murphy
 

Check out the deli’s interview with Red Bellows, one of our bands of the month in April! Be sure to check out their show tomorrow, 5/11, at church in Boston with whenairturnstowater, Cats and Cats and Cats, and Ladycop. Red Bellows goes on at 8 pm.

Red Bellows: Uncontrollable outside factors caused the creation of this band. Beckoned from different corners of the planet, the RB sound evolved from four prototypes bouncing around like a ball of barbed friction. 

RB: We looked through a camera with red bellows once. We liked what the other end looked like. We also couldn’t call the band Shred Yellows or Bread Cellos because that would just be ridiculous.

Click to read the rest of the interview.

The 24-year wait is over as today, May 10, The Cars release their brand new album, Move Like This, via Hear Music/Concord Music Group. Move Like This, produced by Garret "Jacknife" Lee (U2, REM, The Hives, Weezer) and The Cars, finds the beloved band – Ric Ocasek, Greg Hawkes, Elliot Easton and David Robinson – brimming with confidence and creative energy, in full charge of their considerable power and enduring influential artistry. In celebration of the release, the band is sharing an embeddable full album stream for fans to hear and share available via soundcloud.

The Cars tour dates are as follows:

5.10.11 – Showbox @SODO – Seattle, WA
05.12.11 – The Hollywood Palladium – Los Angeles, CA
05.13.11 – Fox Theatre – Oakland, CA
05.15.11 – The Fillmore – Denver, CO
05.17.11 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
05.18.11 – The Riviera Theatre – Chicago, IL
05.20.11 – The Sound Academy – Toronto, ON
05.22.11 – Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA
05.23.11 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC
05.25.11 – Roseland Ballroom – New York, NY
05.26.11 – The House of Blues – Boston, MA

Move Like This by The Cars

–Chrissy Prisco