RIP Levon. You were just as great later as you were earlier.

Thursday means videos! Right? Here we are at 92.5 The River‘s River Music Hall playing “I don’t wanna go home.” Everyone who plays there writes their name on the wall. We may or may not have made ours bigger than Coldplay’s.

The week of announcements continues, and this one’s a dousy (doozie? doosie?). We recently headed up to the gem that is Gloucester, MA to do an interview and performance with the gem that is Meg Griffin.  Meg’s a DJ legend, having been an institution at the big ones like K-rock in New York and WMMR…

Election years are awesome, right? Everyone loves TV ads that turn from gray and dark to sunny and optimistic, right? And lawn signs, right?  And babies who have no control over their wardrobes, right? We figure that with so much talk of power in Washington, big government, and etch a sketches, we’d better get in…

We love ending weeks with teases. Next week, we’ll be announcing all sorts of stuff: video of a session at 92.5 The River, details on a session on Sirius XM, more info on a rollicking DC show, and news on a new record. In other words…

Last weekend’s hometown show at the Middle East downstairs was a gem. Good and rowdy. Here’s a pic (courtesy of Mark Stern). More to come…

For our last preview ahead of Saturday’s hometown show at the Middle East downstairs (tickets here!), we’re getting lazy.  Or maybe we’re just sad (more on this later).  Or maybe we’d just prefer to flatter the Boston Phoenix, as they do a much better job of previewing the show as we could have done.  And…

Ahead of our hometown show on March 31 at the Middle East downstairs (tickets here!), we’re posting previews about the bands joining us.  Last week, Tallahassee.  Today: Spirit Kid. We first met Emeen Zarookian, the brains and braun behind Spirit Kid, when he donned a top hat and added a little whine to his normally…

Today, Esquire Magazine put “Mannequin Man” on their “Future of American Music” playlist. That’s awesome. Here’s how they did it: “we asked Esquire’s seventy-thousand-plus Facebook friends to post links to the songs and artists they recently discovered from their Facebook friends. We culled through the results and picked ten tunes: a playlist that speaks not…

Ahead of our hometown show on March 31 at the Middle East downstairs (tickets here!), we’re going to post some previews about the bands joining us.  Today: Tallahassee. For two glorious nights – March 30 in Providence and March 31 in Boston – we get to share the stage with Tallahassee.  They’ve got musical merits…