This week I’m going to talk a little differently about a local artist. Normally I’d tell you all about their production, critique it, and write them a little letter for improvement. I think I could accomplish that this week, but really, that’s not the way to tackle this artist. This week I want to take [...]

Let’s take a little break from production reviews to talk about something else this week. This week Music Monday will discuss live performance a bit. Friday night I found myself invited to a show in Providence at Lupo’s by some friends. Though I didn’t know the artist (Michael Franti), I decided to go. Since I’m [...]

Kathryn Dearborn is a piano player and singer from New Hampshire. I came across her somewhere on the internet and sent her a couple emails almost instantly. I remember being very taken with her music and feeling a need to tell her that. We’ve since communicated a bit; talked about the future of her music, [...]

The music business is a tricky awful place. There aren’t many people that will help you out when you’re just getting started and the internet is filled with misinformation. The people that need some information the most are the ones that just can’t get it. I think every now and then I’ll pop in here, [...]

Produced by Phineas Vaughn Recorded at The Trauma Center Ft. Lauderdale, FL Mixed by Nameless Mastered by The Doctor Back in March PAXEast (Penny-Arcade Expo East Coast Edition) took over Boston when they came to Hynes Convention Center. I was not there, but a big pile of my friends were. I’d meet up with them [...]

Eleventh Hour Sunrise is that rare local band you run into that isn’t making garage/punk rock, art rock, or pop rock.  This band is making a radio friendly brand of college rock and really owning the style; finding their place in it.  The EP was recorded by the band themselves, Dan Michaud, who did all [...]

If you don’t know Chromeo, well, it happens, but it’s time to check them out. In the summer of 2007 they released the best album for dancing of the year: Fancy Footwork. They finally got away from trying to make rap beats into full songs and truly grabbed their electrofunk style by the balls.

You know what is strange about the StopBeingBoring offices? About half of us went to school to learn to record music. Some of us even went to the same school for it. What makes this stranger is that my school has something like an 18% graduation rate for students. You just don’t find many people [...]