Posts by Aaron Teixeira

Bill Frisell is making old songs new again. Or maybe, with 2014’s Guitar in the Space Age!, Frisell is making a new record, old. In any instance, when his tour pulled into Boston, and his band squeezed into the intimate space of Scullers Jazz Club, what was clear above all was the timelessness of some […]

[rating=5.00] The Lone Bellow’s sophomore effort Then Came the Morning is a mixed product.  The album strikes out as a synthesis of various traditional styles, but filtered through a modern lens. The result is an ambitious series of songs that maintains a consistent style alchemizing all of these ideas but often underwhelms in their execution. Early on […]

For a crowded evening at the Middle East Nightclub in Cambridge, the Upstairs lounge was converted into a jostling, whooping and jovial dance floor. That1Guy took the stage to an audience of receptive concertgoers who, for roughly 90 minutes, engaged in what could be considered a musical conversation. As the artist – also known as […]

[rating=9.00] With the release of 2013’s Time Off, Brooklyn-based guitarist and musician’s musician Steve Gunn expounded upon his years of collaboration – raga/blues experimentation with drummer John Truscinski; biting improvisational rock with Cian Nugent; and psychedelic folk with the members of Hiss Golden Messenger – to produce a cohesive yet varied, at times sprawling album. […]

Howe Gelb (Giant Sand) has spent the better part of the last thirty years cultivating a catalog of idiosyncratic works that speak to the listener in a particular, sharp voice. Grant Lee Phillips (Grant Lee Buffalo) on the other hand is a songwriter who speaks from an evocative baritone/tenor to wide, open landscapes. The decision […]