Rock and Roll Book Club “meeting” and The Old Ceremony in Boston on February 16th
Central Square is truly the place to be on Wednesday, February 16th. First up is the Rock and Roll Book Club's first book club "meeting." This is a project I started up this past November. We chose Steve Almond's book "Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life" as the...
“Song for Sooz” debuts on YouTube by Dave Mirabella from The Rationales
A couple months ago I entered a "contest" to help the guys in The Rationales get the word out about their superb Boston band. At the end of the contest, five of us won a custom song written and performed by Dave Mirabella from The Rationales. Here's the song that includes shoutouts for my projects...
Inspired and Inspiring — “A Watched Pot” Comes To Life For Bleu
Bleu at TT The Bear's Place, November 2006, Photo by Sooz Unfortunately it's not all that unique of a story -- amazing band gets signed to a big label, releases an album and then gets dropped right as their next album is about to be released. Or in the case of two of my favorite...
Photos and video from the second and third preliminary nights of WBCN’s 31st Annual Rock N’ Roll Rumble
(The Motion Sick competed on the second night of preliminaries) Ryan's Smashing Life has reviews of the second and third preliminary nights of WBCN's Rock N' Roll Rumble at The Middle East Upstairs including my photos and videos. Video of The Dirty Truckers performing "Boston Wrangler" at Rumble preliminaries Here's the video I shot of...
Universal Hall Pass’s cover of “Ring of Fire” on American Idol
A friend alerted me that Adam Lambert on American Idol sang Universal Hall Pass's arrangement of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" a couple weeks ago. A cover of a cover? Aha! Apparently Ryan Seacrest thought it was a version of the song by Chris Cornell. Oops. I finally checked out Adam's version on YouTube ......
Music Worth Noting : Universal Hall Pass Covers “Ring of Fire”
One of my favorite Boston bands, Splashdown, broke up a couple years ago after Capitol Records decided not to release their Blueshift album. All three of the band members moved on to other interesting projects. Melissa Kaplan (vocals/lyrics for Splashdown) started her own band called Universal Hall Pass, a project featuring her vocals ...
