Event is 21+
$15/$18
July 19 at the Lounge will combobulate and gruntle your hearts and minds. Please join us for an evening of high class, low brow fun with no middlemen. If you so choose you may enjoy the expertly mixed and refreshing cocktails and become ever so slightly and delightfully semi-anti-uninebriated. You will indeed want to keep your wits about you and without you for the concerted disconcertions that will be on display live and in person and on stage, and allow the music to take you to new levels of the collective sub-unconsciousness.
“The Blue Ribbons’ latest album, 2024’s “Forever, But Not For Long,” has plenty of pop hooks. Or rather, it had plenty of them before the band took sledgehammers and scalpels to most of the pretty bits.
“It took a while to get the bones of some of the tunes down just so we could break them,” bandleader James Rohr told Herald with a laugh.
Local champs the Blue Ribbons are a pop band in the same way that the Beatles or Steely Dan or Television are pop bands in that they like pop but “aren’t too precious about the songs,” Rohr said.
The Ribbons have the Beatles’ artistic reach, Steely Dan’s jazz chops, and Television’s orchestrated chaos — and even this doesn’t capture it all (add in some Tom Waits, a bit of Elvis Costello, and a pinch of Frank Zappa). Basically, Rohr and collaborators guitarist Mike Castellana, bassist Jef Charland, and drummer Tauras Biskis take catchy tunes and ugly them up without losing the hook.
“The Blue Ribbons’ latest album, 2024’s “Forever, But Not For Long,” has plenty of pop hooks. Or rather, it had plenty of them before the band took sledgehammers and scalpels to most of the pretty bits.
“It took a while to get the bones of some of the tunes down just so we could break them,” bandleader James Rohr told Herald with a laugh.
Local champs the Blue Ribbons are a pop band in the same way that the Beatles or Steely Dan or Television are pop bands in that they like pop but “aren’t too precious about the songs,” Rohr said.
Jed Gottleib – Boston Herald
The Ribbons have the Beatles’ artistic reach, Steely Dan’s jazz chops, and Television’s orchestrated chaos — and even this doesn’t capture it all (add in some Tom Waits, a bit of Elvis Costello, and a pinch of Frank Zappa). Basically, Rohr and collaborators guitarist Mike Castellana, bassist Jef Charland, and drummer Tauras Biskis take catchy tunes and ugly them up without losing the hook.
With a powerhouse voice that cuts through any dark, smoky bar like a beam of light, Amber Angelina is an eclectic torch singer who has been likened to everyone from Adele and Kate Bush to Neko Case and Linda Ronstadt. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Amber Angelina has become a treasured staple in New England, where she and her first-rate band (Mike Castellana, Jef Charland, Nate Logus, Peter Moore) deliver soulful, stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks songs that grapple with embracing vulnerabilities, making peace with our mistakes, and finding strength in a weary world.
