RI Music Hall of Fame Is Poised to Honor the Best
Arthur “Pooch” Tavares, with nearly 60 years in the music business, continues to reach out to his old fans and to new generations as well. The 70- year-old Tavares is […]
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The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Motif Alternative Album Nominees
Sick Pills — Sickening Earlier today I was blasting the new CD Sickening from the New Bedford-based band Sick Pills. With all that ground thumping new wave goodness pouring from […]
Album of the Week: Mean Creek’s Local Losers
It can be a gamble when a band tweaks their sound, especially when everything they’ve done beforehand is simply brilliant. Enter Boston’s Mean Creek, starting out with multidimensional bluesy Bruce […]
EDM: The Underground Music Movement and Featured DJ Wil Trahan
Every day more and more party goers are starting to embrace the underground music scene. I come from the early ’90s rave era, and I’ve noticed the new generation of […]
CD Review: Atlantic Thrills’ Latest
Surf rock that strays from the simple sounds of the sea and adds a little punk In the early 1960s, much of American Top 40 rock & roll was […]
CD Review — Hope Anchor’s Never Gonna Let You Go
If you should live out in Toad Suck, Arkansas (it’s a real place, look it up), the name Hope Anchor probably doesn’t immediately conjure up much, except perhaps some vaguely […]
Alt-Nation: Breaking Through All Over
We start this week off with some sad news: that Dave Lamb of Brown Bird is still battling leukemia. The band has been unable to earn a living for almost […]
EDM: From Rivet-Gun Bass Lines To Cascading Piano Riffs
DJ Dublin discusses EDM The term EDM has metamorphisized more quickly than any term in dance music since I can remember. EDM is short for electronic dance music, which could […]
Mike D’s Top Five: Can’t Miss Shows of April
Musical Month of April 1. Friday, April 11: WBRU Rock Hunt Finals featuring Jetty, The Rare Occasions, The Stilts; $5; 7pm doors / 8pm show; All ages; The Met, 1005 Main […]
Roots Report — Wild Youth and Wilder Shows
April Shows that Cover Decades of Music Okee dokee folks… Technically it’s spring, though it isn’t spring in my book until the peepers start peeping. Those little frozen froggies […]