Care Bears on Fire growing up
The all girl pop-punk trio is about to release a new full length album July 14.
Emilie Mover on music and television
As much as being featured on popular network television shows has done for Mover she confessed to Blast that she thinks it would be awesome to be featured on HBO’s polygamy drama “Big Love†or in a movie done by one of her favorite directors.
The Sounds — Crossing the Rubicon review
"Crossing the Rubicon" the latest offering from Swedish synth-pop quintet The Sounds, borrows its name from a phrase meaning "to pass a point of no return." Historically, it refers to the act of war Julius C...
Hardcore heaven with Protest The Hero
WORCESTER -- When it comes to heavy, aggressive, hardcore/metal music, the Boston/Worcester area is sacred ground for the head bang, screamed lyrics, head walking crowds. Such hardcore havens as the Worcester P...
Cobra Starship makes Blast blush
LOWELL - Samuel L. Jackson might have had enough of those motherfucking snakes on that motherfucking plane, but three years later, Cobra Starship (which outfitted the title song for the 2006 summer reptilian th...
Owl City plays for Boston tonight
While the exact formula for success hasn't been figured out yet, millions of artists flock daily to Myspace, post their demos that were recorded in some adjacent room in their house and hope to somehow strike g...
Andrew McMahon talks Jack’s, SoCo and Twilight
Blast got an opportunity to talk at length with Jack's Mannequin front man Andrew McMahon about the group's new album, working with Stephenie Meyer, the Dear Jack Foundation and the future of Something Corporat...
Andrea Gillis and her band
CAMBRIDGE -- As I walked into the Plough and Stars about a month ago I felt slightly ill at ease. The cover was $7, and the space was packed. With little room to move, I worked my way to the front to meet singe...
Honeyhoney gets funny with Blast
What happens when you mix a saucy female fiddle player from Ohio, a bearded rocker from Massachusetts and an intense adoration for Tenacious D? You end up with folk-rock duo honeyhoney featuring Suzanne Santo o...
Rocco DeLuca begs for Mercy
It's 4:30 p.m when Rocco DeLuca strolls into the Paradise Lounge and claims that he has just woken up. He adjusts the fedora resting precariously on his head and takes a seat across the table in the empty booth...
Ida Maria rocks Boston with “Naked”
Without even looking for a bottle opener, Ida Maria grabs a water bottle and uses it to pop the cap off her Sam Adams. She continues telling me how she got started on the path to her first record, "Fortress Round My Heart," without pausing to acknowledge she had just opened a beer bottle in one off the most innovative ways I had ever seen
A Wild Light shines on Boston
"Adult Nights" has received glowing reviews from everyone from SPIN to Rolling Stone and Billboard, but Wild Light co-frontman Timothy Kyle says there are some things that people haven't talked about when it comes to the record.
The Camilo Project
The Camilo Project and its members, Jason "Camilo" Margaca and siblings Mark and Patrina Foley, are trying create something completely different.
With a sound that departs from your run-of-the-mill alternati...
And they’re off!
Before a recent An Horse show in their hometown of Brisbane, Kate Cooper, one-half of the Australian duo, was asked if she had ever been to the particular venue before.
"I had" she said in an interview...
A Cursive Memory
It was a half an hour before they were set to take the stage at Boston's Harper's Ferry, but the band members of A Cursive Memory weren't wasting time stressing over their upcoming performance. After all, th...
Wiired for sound
Boston band Vivian Darkbloom looks like most other rock groups, but if you look closely, something might catch your eye: the Nintendo Wii controller attached to the guitar. [...]
Mike Kinsella: Football, Owen, and Chicago pizza
Some have gone so far as to credit Owen as being "The Inventor of the Chicago Indie Scene", but when Kinsella talked to Blast he said the accolade was far from the truth. In fact, he suggested "The Passenger of Chicago Public Transportation" or "The Consumer of Chicago Style Pizza" are more appropriate titles.
