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Dead Season - Rise

By all accounts, Dead Season are the reigning kings of Maine Hard Rock/Metal/Hardcore. There is no disputing their presence in the state and this area of the country. Read more ...

Posted: 08-16-2006 Review author: Erik Archambault Review location: ME

Craving Made February Hot!

Like many other bands (over 200 to be precise), Craving took The Wire New Hampshire RPM Challenge. This meant they had exactly one month to write and record 10 songs or 35 minutes worth of music. Read more ...

Posted: 05-06-2006 Review author: Carolyn Maheu Review location: New Hampshire

Die Right Now

How many bands can pretty much play with any kind of music weather it be pop or death metal well these guys totaly take the cake on that one Die Right Now Read more ...

Posted: 01-28-2006 Review author: Last Chance Productions Review location: Maine

The Digbees: "Love is a Train"

This is the Digbees first CD, and they definitely made a very good first impression! Read more ...

Posted: 12-03-2005 Review author: Review location: New Hampshire

Greg Brown - American Knight

American Knight may strike some as aggressively commercial, but it's a "1986-and-the- Fabulous-Thunderbirds-are-huge" kinda commercial, which makes it almost underground in today's hipster-creep climate Read more ...

Posted: 07-31-2005 Review author: Review location: Connecticut

Team Sleep, Excelent Work

Chino Moreno is one of the most inspiring musicians out today and will always be. Read more ...

Posted: 05-16-2005 Review author: Matt Garnham Review location: New Hampshire

Velvet Revolver - "Contraband"

What happens when star-quality talent from multiple chart-topping rock bands join forces to form a super group? Read more ...

Posted: 11-27-2004 Review author: brke31 Review location: Massachusetts

Josh Todd - "You Made Me"

One would find it hard to believe this is not a solo effort given the band is named after its own lead singer, but former Buckcherry vocalist Joshua Todd's maintains Josh Todd is a true band. Read more ...

Posted: 11-27-2004 Review author: brke31 Review location: Massachusetts

Hartford Advocate's Local Motion review of Yellow 9 at La Boca

On Saturday night, I went to Middletown's La Boca Cantina to catch rockers Yellow 9 . They tore through several sets of crisp-sounding covers that were well-tuned to the restaurant's middle-aged crowd. Read more ...

Posted: 11-16-2004 Review author: Dan Barry of The Hartford Advocate Review location: Connecticut

Blind By Noon/Dream Theater concert

Where do I begin? Man, what a show! Dream theater was no big surprise. I expected them to be amazing, and they were amazing. What I wasn't prepared for was Blind By Noon! Can someone say Holy flippin' moly? (It was an all ages show, so I'm trying to keep this as being an all ages review.) Blind By Noon. Wow. I've known for quite some time that they were one of New Englands best unsigned bands, but I had never heard them live before Saturday. And what a treat Saturday was. Led by guitarist Scott Latulippe, (longtime friend and former bandmate of Robbie Merrill and Sully Erna of Godsmack), Blind By Noon stepped out on stage and took absolute control of the standing-room-only crowd, from the first song, right up until and even after the end of thier set. I wasn't sure what to expect at first. Read more ...

Posted: 08-27-2004 Review author: Peter Diodati Review location:

Sicboy - 2004 EP

Having originally formed in ’96, Sicboy has been around as long as this magazine has. And just like us, they’ve progressed and grown a lot since their beginning. Their latest EP finds them employing even tighter songwriting and scripting a new scene in the hard rock play. Truly angst-ridden rockers can sometimes get caught up in their own self-indulgence. Not the case here. Instead there’s gritty songs that are speckled with fairy dust of superiority—without the usual cockiness that comes coupled with success, albeit underground success. Most wouldn’t have associated sounds this heavy and grooving with Connecticut but being only a hop-skip-and-a-jump away from the world’s most famous city must have something to do with it. Or maybe it’s the water. Not many have this kind of poisonous venom to expunge while retaining pop’s hooks and catchiness—see “Spitting Bullets”. Now is radio brave enough? You can find their song "Awake" on our very own compilation released earlier this year.

- J-Sin Read more ...

Posted: 07-14-2004 Review author: Smother Review location: Connecticut

Musuem of Science/ Oblique Music for Soul

Red Fez's most recent addition, Museum of Science, has been described by Showcase Magazine as “equal parts Beastie Boys, Sly and the Family Stone, Meatbeat Manifesto, and Steve McQueen.

” Museum of Science's full-length debut MUSIC FOR SOUNDTRACKS THAT DON'T EXIST delivers organized lab coat tinkering over infectious funk-laden backbeats, filling 16 tracks to the brim with lo-fi radios, computers, Fisher Price toys, and anything else that screams for your attention in a crusty pawn shop. Ignore the score below and decide for yourself. Read more ...

Posted: 07-13-2004 Review author: Sean Joncas Review location:

Lord of the Strings- VIVA LA ROCK DE SEX

Lord of the Strings is a 17 year-old kid from Durham, NH that took the sexual energy of Prince and bastardized it into 14 tracks of sexual discovery, discharge, and dedication. The lyrics are hilariously autobiographical and tongue-in-chest. Vocalist guitarist Zach Wilson writes odes to masturbation and fantasies about high school gym teachers that many have frequently thought about but didn’t dare say. Read more ...

Posted: 06-09-2004 Review author: Sean Joncas Review location:

Optic rose L.P & Optic Rose the band

Optic Roses self titled LP is an expedition into the fusion of art and music. Strings, keyboards, children’s toys, sequencers and digital beats create a heavy and melodic back drop for Walter Sickert’s haunting voice. Read more ...

Posted: 03-13-2004 Review author: Zoe Review location:

The band i

Those of you in New England that haven't done what you need to do to get to see the band " i "!! Wake up!! I have been all over the country played in bands, seen literally thousands of shows and this band " i " is incredible!!! You will never see 3 better musicians anywhere,and the vocalist (J.Staples)does what noone does anymore...he sings! as does the rest of the band. Read more ...

Posted: 03-08-2004 Review author: Roger Johnson Review location: Massachusetts

The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides is a three piece band consisting of Nick (guitar/vocals), Paul (drums), and Mike (bass). They've been together less than a year but are so in sync with one another. They really put on an amazing show. Read more ...

Posted: 08-26-2003 Review author: Chiari Legare Review location: