The Primate Fiasco is something else. Is psych-Dixieland an established genre yet? Banjo played with a spacey touch, funky tuba and sax, a groovin’ accordion, and a washboard and drums to hold it all down — The Primate Fiasco could be millionaires after busking on the streets of New Orleans. But while listening to the […]
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THEATER | “Moses Man”
“Moses Man: A Musical Journey of Survival” continues its own long journey with a series of workshop performances at Geva’s Fielding Nextstage on Thursday, May 21, through Sunday, May 24. The locally-created musical — written by Deborah Haber and composed by Casey Filiaci — made its world premiere at the JCC’s Hart Theatre in 2013 […]
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Grain to growth
Just inside the entrance of Black Button Distilling on Railroad Street — right next to the door that separates the business’s product and bar area from the back room packed with barrels and equipment — is a large poster board that lays out Black Button’s process. The simple diagram walks the viewer through the distilling […]
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METAL | Today is the Day
Today is the Day is a hefty head trip. The Maine-based band has been the central project for vocalist and guitarist Steve Austin — also known for producing Lamb of God and Converge — creating dark, swirling imagery through heavy, progressive noise metal since the early 90’s. The music is unpredictable and sludgy, and a […]
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DANCE | “Identity Awakens”
Unidentified Dance — a new movement company led by co-artistic directors Margaret Moreno and Trevor Van Oden — will premiere its first public work, “Identity Awakens,” this Saturday. Moreno and Van Oden met while apprenticing with FuturPointe Dance and found that they shared similar views on the value of dance in communication and self-discovery. “Identity […]
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CLASSICAL | “Fanny in May”
Pianist Diane Walsh, violinist David Brickman, and cellist Stefan Reuss — a trio that hasn’t performed together for First Muse since 2013 — will close out First Muse’s 2015 season with a warm welcome to spring. “Fanny in May” will feature Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s “Piano Trio,” a world premiere of Mark Harris’s “Romance for Violin […]
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METAL | Hatebreed
Hatebreed is throwing a show in June for its 20th anniversary — a milestone that’s almost unheard of for most bands — in its hometown of New Haven, Connecticut. The band helped define the metalcore subgenre in the late 90’s, and across the six studio albums it’s pummeled out, has fine-tuned that hardcore aggression and […]
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LITERATURE | Amanda Jacobs with the Jane Austen Society
This weekend, Jane Austen fans can get an inside look at summer life in Austen’s village when Amanda Jacobs, the producer and writer of “Pride and Prejudice: a Musical,” gives a lecture on her time spent at the Chawton House. The house — an Elizabethan manor home in Hampshire, England — was formerly the home […]
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FESTIVAL PREVIEW 2015
CITY Newspaper’s guide to the summer festival season
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METAL | Misery Index
Deathgrind is one of those brutally intense fusion genres that needs to balance well in order to work — but when it works, damn, it will blow your eardrums out. Misery Index has been a prime example of how to do the noise well, ramming together the dread, doom, and technicality of death metal with […]
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HIP-HOP | Yoni Wolf
Nothing ever seems out of the ordinary for Yoni Wolf. The guy’s main project, WHY?, has been a well-received powerhouse of alt hip-hop and genre-fluid indie for more than a decade, and he seems to pop up in the best places with his guest appearances, mixtapes, and remixes. Wolf is now on a small solo […]
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THEATER | “The Bikinis”
When the Sandy Shores Mobile Home Beach Resort is strapped for cash, a popular 1960’s girl group reunites after more than 20 years to try and raise some needed assistance in “The Bikinis: A New Musical Beach Party.” The jukebox musical has been praised for its fun, high energy as the group flies through hits […]
