Burlington’s Other Music Festival moves into day 3, which seems to be a more jazz focused night. Anthony Coleman will be making another appearance, collaborating with Chambers. Representing Burlington are long time residential jazz improv group, Jazz Rehab, and the fiery saxophone and xylophone free jazz attack of the Mohanty/Mallon Duet. Other performers include Toilet Phone, Dr. Thing, and a colab between Steve Goldberg and R. Bill Gangon. Everything kicks of at 8pm at North End Studios.

–The Deli Staff

1993: Kurt Cobain and Bradley Nowell were still with us. The Alt-Rock Seattle scene was finally making it to national radio. Music videos were reaching awesome heights. When I was a teenager I jumped up to record "Possum Kingdom" by the Toadies (came out in 1994 though, but you’ll get my point) on the radio on to a blank tape and cut my leg with a pair of scissors I was using to cut out pictures of famous people to paste on my wall and needed to receive eight stitches. It is the biggest scar on my body and it reminds me of that time when I was desperate for the angsty awesome of 90’s rock. 1993 was the year music changed from the poppy-WTF 80’s cheese into something solid, new and powerful. The kids of the 90’s were lucky to have had such a creative bunch of kick-ass musicians on the radio and on a radio who didn’t entirely care about corporate sponsors.

This Saturday a group of Boston bands are getting together at the Rosebud Diner in Somerville to celebrate the fateful year. Promising to play songs by: Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Counting Crows, Nirvana, Belly, REM, Cracker, Morphine, James, New Order and The Breeders. 

The following Boston Bands will be there:

The Luxury
The Rationales
Exile in Somerville (members of Apple Betty, Kingsley Flood, Dark Martini & the Dirty Olives, The So-So’s)
St Helena

381 Summer St  Somerville, MA- Rosebud Diner

–Meghan Chiampa

Burlington’s Other Music Festival continues into day 2 proper tonight at 8pm at North End Studios once again. Today features a few more Burlington vets along with some exciting high profile out of town acts. Ryan Power, the le duo, and Paper Castles are representing the Burlington area, but also making appearances are MA’s Deadwood and a collaboration between Ethan Snyder, Aaron Burnette, and Casimir Liberski. The biggest news is Tzadik’s Mr. Anthony Coleman who will be making a couple collaborative apperances throughtout the week, tonight with Derek Beckvoid and Bob Jordon. A wildly diverse night to be sure.

–The Deli Staff

Boston’s best jazz-funk band, Otis Grove, is playing two nights Monday June 7th at Nectar’s and then Tuesday June 8th at the City Hall stage from 7-8:30 in Burlington, Vermont. Otis Grove played in the Deli’s first showcase and recently at the House of Blues front room.

–The Deli Magazine

Burlington’s first Other Music Festival is kicking off day 1 tonight at 8pm at North End Studios with a lineup currated by local promotional blog Angioplasty Media. Appearing tonight is ambient/electronic duo Even the Dew is Porous, lofi singer-songwriter Lady Lioness, folktronic loop mistress Nuda Veritas, Chicago-based Distractions, Alive and Well, and Folk Heroes with DJ Disco Phantom providing in-between sounds. The Other Music Fest seeks to showcase a segment of Burlington’s lesser known artists and will be going on all week at North End Studios. Check their myspace page for the full lineup and more info.

–The Deli Staff

Dogs on Television, is a Boston based band who play kick-ass blues-infused rock. Their tunes are filled with hopeful, but desperate angst, and it is awesome. The structure of the songs are picked from the pockets of deep American blues, but are successfully modified for modern, electric rock. "Dumbstruck #2" is more on the old-timey blues style side while "The Jailer" has more of a Black Crowes emotional but heavy 90’s feel with brushes of ol’ 70’s blues-rock, reminiscent of the Rolling Stones or Steve Winwood.

Dogs on Television is about to put out their first CD this Saturday, June 5. In celebration, DoTV will be hosting a CD Release show at Church, near Fenway Park in Boston. Some really excellent bands will be joining DoTV on the bill such as Jaxon Boom, Blackbutton (who just released a killer CD themselves), and Mikey P and the A Company.

Church -69 Kilmarnock Street Boston – 9pm – $10

–The Deli Staff

Editor’s note: I’ve been listening to DoTV’s front-man, James Houlahan for at least 5 years since he was in The Jody Grind and I was always happy to see him come in a the Lizard Lounge Open Mic on Mondays. The album is stellar to the max.

Chirs Mulvey: “Why is our name Muy Cansado?”  Muy Cansado translates to “Very Tired.”  We actually did not have the translation in mind when we initially picked the name.  We were debating a name and couldn’t agree on anything.  There was strange artwork on the wall of the rehearsal space we were in at the time from the band that had used the space before us.  We kept laughing at a picture where one stick figure was shooting another stick figure that was swinging a golf club.  One figure posed the question, “Cansado?” while the other answered, “Muy Cansado!”  We liked the picture and took the name.  

Now I enjoy that our name means "Very Tired."  Life can be exhausting.

CM: Yes we have been off the radar recording and mixing.  We just finished up in Q Division with Jon Lupfer recording and mixing four songs.  Three of the four have been staples of our live set for a while – Not About A Girl, Love & Fear and Sharpshooter.  By the time this interview airs we will have recorded a fifth song, Acquaintances, with Matt Girard of The Motion Sick and Future Everybodies.  (We are recording with Matt tomorrow).  The five songs will be out on a yet-to-be-titled EP in the fall.  We’re shooting for early fall.  That’s taken up a lot of our time. 
 
When we haven’t been in the studio, we’ve been working on a lot of new material.  We’re hoping to hit the studio again by year’s end to record for a release next year.  Personally, I’m hoping it’s a full length, but it’s too early to speculate.  The new recordings and songs have really energized us.  We’re excited to share. 

CM: I can say that we will definitely be playing brand new songs at our next show.  As for how many, I’m not sure – at least one, possibly quite a few.  We’ve played brand new songs at each show this year.  If you haven’t caught us yet in 2010, then you’ll hear a lot of brand new stuff.  Most of what we’ll play at the Rosebud will not be off of Stars & Garters (our debut album), although we’ll likely throw a few S&G tracks in there as well. 

As for The Summer Love Show – it’s a celebration of summer love.  Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your take) we will not be playing any Grease Covers.  However, we will be advocating spin the bottle, truth or dare and anything else that could lead to a little summer heat.  I’m hoping at least one random couple of strangers makes out at the bar.  If that happens, then The Summer Love Show will have done it’s job.

Rosebud Bar & Grill
9pm
$5

–The Deli Staff

Deli folk favorite, Brendan Hogan is celebrating the release of Long Night Coming at Club Passim June 3th. Hogan’s music is Dylan-influenced folk/blues with lots of emotion and beautiful energy. He’s been a long-standing contributor to the Boston music scene and played our showcase in March at the Armory. Hogan was host and producer at WERS and WGBH FM for ten years. He will also be celebrating his birthday! And we all know musicians play their very best on their birthdays. This show gets the Deli – New England’s first use of a smiley. Check out the interview we did with him in January HERE.

Club Passim
47 Palmer Street
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
http://clubpassim.org/
$12/$10 Club Passim members

–The Deli Staff
 

Audrey Ryan was born when The Arcade Fire and Beck tumbled down Niagara Falls in a bucket with Joni Mitchell. She emerged unscathed, accordion in hand at the bottom. She writes the kind of music I prefer listening to while lying on the floor drinking a bottle of red wine. Since bars won’t let me do this, I stand and watch her one-woman-band-sleight-of-hand. Audrey simultaneously plays any combination of guitar, keys, drums, accordion and/or glockenspiel while singing. Her third full-length album (partially recorded in her loft where she often hosts DIY events) I Know, I Know was released earlier this year. Audrey Ryan works with Cave In’s Stephen Brodsky once again on I Know, I Know and with help from her UK Label, (Folkwit Records) the album is available in Europe as well.

She performs tomorrow 5/26 at O’Briens’s Pub in Allston along with Greg Lyon, and Ian Adams as part of Eldridge Rodriguez’s residency. Doors at 9pm, $6, 21+

–Kat Burke

Thick with both rural twang and urban sophistication, Boston singer/songwriter Patrick Coman combines folky poetry and country-style storytelling on his latest release, Southern Storms. Violin, organ, and a silky lap steel swell under Coman’s weary voice as he laments and introspects with the quiet intensity of Neil Young and the earnest exhaustion of Jeff Tweedy. Moody and rife with meteorological metaphors, the album feels at times like an Elliott Smith ode to isolation, but the monotony breaks with the southern-fried “Nights Like Tonight” and “Fortune Cookie.” The wistful, soft-spoken “Rear-view Mirror (“Why am I lonely on New Year’s Eve?”) brings to mind a “Dressed Up Like Nebraska”-era Josh Rouse while tracks like “Gram Parsons” reveal obvious leanings towards erstwhile Drive-By Truckers frontman Jason Isbell. Patrick Coman’s power as a songwriter lies in his ability to bravely delve into the haunted parts of our ego that grapple with yearning, loneliness, and regret. Without trepidation, he uncovers desperate, self-pitying stones that are instantly and painfully recognizable to anyone who has ever felt unbearably overwhelmed by sorrow and alienation. Perhaps this isn’t the best album for a Sunday drive (unless it’s off a cliff), but when you’re ruminating over a past lover or lost opportunity, no album will feel more right.

–Stephie Coplan

Photo by Michael Spencer

When you first hear the Nate Wilson Group a little orange and yellow "Led Zepplin" light goes off behind your eyes. Their music is heavily influenced by 60’s and 70’s classic psych rock and contains some country rock hints in some of the songs. Allman Brothers-esque guitar riffs (which probably makes the band a hit with the evolving jamband scene) are sprinkled generously throughout their tunes. Although they’ve played with some major national acts such as Ryan Montbleau, moe. and Martin Sexton, The Nate Wilson Group doesn’t fade from the local scene and is a band who knows how to play around their local turf. They have THREE residencies in June. One in Worcester, MA at The Dive Bar on Fridays, at Stone Church in Newmarket, NH on Wednesdays and at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA on Thursdays.

–The Deli Staff

Allston’s Hello Ninja and local gadabouts Baby Made Rebel kick-off the festivities at Boston-based QRO Magazine’s first ever showcase this Monday at P.A.’s Lounge. Baby Made Rebel started as a solo singer/songwriter project by Lance Riley, then blossomed into a full ensemble starring bassist Slow Train Carter (of Shoney Lamar & the Equal Rights) and drummer Neil Dean. The trio mixes it up with clean 70s rock songwriting with a rough-and-raw delivery. Hello Ninja cuts their rock with a smart dose of pop. Check them out doing an old classic properly: Burt Bacharach’s “Baby It’s You” at the Middle East HERE. New Haven’s EULA will join the local cast with tart, tight art/punk-isms while Atlanta’s Nerd Parade will serve up the southern-fried, psychedelic closer on the Boston stop of their US tour. Any show where you can get a north-to-south read on the state of indie music in America is an event not be missed. More show info HERE. The party starts at 8:30pm.

P.A.’s Lounge

345 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA. 21+/$7.

–Mike Gutierrez