Lizard Lounge Club

Poetry Jam-Influence
2023-10-01 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Lizard Lounge, 1667 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Featured Poet Influence

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Sharmont (Influence) Little is a Black American Poet and Activist from New Haven Ct. Who has been called engaging, prolific and truly passionate.

Influence’s goal is to educate and inspire people of all ages and mindsets, with a strong focus on the youth of the inner cities. He has performed at a host of Universities all over the country. He made a name for himself as a slam poet winning over a 100 slams nationwide and being a 5 time member of the Connecticut slam team Verbal Slap, Including coaching the 2017 team . Influence is also the 2018 grand slam champion, and coached the 2021 Yale University Slam team. Having done all that he is the founder of Influence A Life LLC, a multi purpose company that creates curriculums on Social Emotional Learning using the foundation of poetry. He also finds great passion in the yearly Holiday food drive he does twice a year. This is fueled by the Influence A Life Apparel line which he is designer and operator. He lives by the saying always show your GREATNESS!

Daphne Parker Powell, Kat Parks and Rodney Henry
2023-10-04 20:00 - 23:00
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Daphne Parker Powell, Kat Parks and Rodney Henry live at the Lizard Lounge!

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Born in the foothills of Appalachia, raised on Old Time and traditional Folk in a family band, Daphne followed her dreams to the Brooklyn of the 90s, sailed around the world, and landed on the East Coast to start a brick-and-mortar record shop, label, and host years of festivals and concerts as she built up to writing and producing 6 albums of heartbreakingly beautiful, danceable, powerful original songs.
Now an award winning Writer and Producer, with music in film and television, you’ll find her touring non-stop from her home bases of New London, CT and New Orleans, LA.
https://www.daphneparkerpowell.com/

Kathleen Parks is a five-stringed fiddler, singer, and songwriter who brings inexhaustible energy and creativity to the stage and studio. Her lyrics and melodies lean toward pop, while her fiddle blends and reimagines traditional and modern musical styles with a boundless improvisational spirit. Fronting the 2 time Boston Music Award winning and nationally touring Americana-Funk band, Twisted Pine and one half of the vintage flare acoustic duo, Kat & Brad. Kathleen brings her sweet, creative spirit everywhere she goes and there’s not a performance to be missed.

http://www.kathleenparksmusic.com/about.html
Rodney has toured extensively across the United States supporting acts like Reverend Horton Heat, Southern Culture on the Skids, Drunken Prayer, Jimmy Vaughn, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Cherry Poppin’ Daddy’s, Squirrel Nut Zippers to name several, with his band Glenmont Popes. The last 4 years has seen Rodney touring as a solo artist. Rodney has also played with acts including Ray Wiley Hubbard, Scott Byram, Kevn Kinney, Hank III, Legendary Shack Shack Shaker, Drive-By Truckers, and Joan Jett.
Songs about Late nights and early mornings, Lost loves, lament, Hope, dreams and whiskey. A well traveled and rounded songwriter from Baltimore, MD.
Having released 4 Records, 2 being solo with the upcoming release of his, “Love in my Heart, Pistol in my Hand”, recording. His schedule doesn’t seem to be slowing down.
You may also recognize him for his time on Food Network where he was runner up on the acclaimed series, “Food Network Star”.
The owner of Dangerously Delicious Pies where his concept has always been Pie for Rock-n-Roll, has been running for 20 plus years and always supporting road musicians and artists from around the world.

Caleb Caudle
2023-10-05 20:00 - 23:00
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Caleb Caudle at the Lizard Lounge!

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Forsythia, the latest studio LP offering from Caleb Caudle out 10/7/22 via Soundly Music, is a portrait of his truest self, of the artist at his most solitary and reflective.Thematically, it meets anticipation for the unknown future with nostalgia for the past, and reconciles both with meditation in the present. The album was recorded at the legendary Cash Cabin during the pandemic, and inspired by the solitude and symbols Caudle found in nature during that time. It’s produced by John Carter Cash, and features veteran session players Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Dennis Crouch and Fred Eltringham, and the vocal talents of Carlene Carter, Elizabeth Cook and Sarah Peasall McGuffey. Simplistic arrangements– in which Caudle was the only guitarist– built a framework for space that is filled intentionally so that the songs themselves can be heard and appreciated without an overcrowding of instrumentation. On this record, outsider influences come into play nearly as much as his foundational knowledge of traditional Appalachian folk and other music history. This collection of 10 songs serves as a manifesto of Caudle’s beliefs and simplest desires. Forsythia sees Caudle as a master of his craft as a songwriter and musician.
Caleb Caudle

Thalia Zedek with Tyler and the Names
2023-10-06 21:00 - 2023-10-07 00:00
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Indie rocker legend Thalia Zedek at the Lizard Lounge with Tyler and the Names

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Thalia Zedek is an artist of immutable stature and unceasing vitality. The legendary songwriter’s fiery voice and frank lyricism give her songs both their emotional potency and their stark beauty. Zedek is able to distill complex events into simple, clear, and at times monumentally weighty moments with a singular grace. Through ballads or bluster, Zedek imbues her music with unguarded honesty. New album Perfect Vision examines the anxiety and pain of rising divisions between people both physical and ideological. On Perfect Vision, Zedek transmutes fervor and resilience into sobering laments, while her lush arrangements wrap the listener in an often complex emotional message.

Perfect Vision follows Thalia Zedek Band’s 2018 album Fighting Season, created in the midst of growing tensions across the U.S. On Fighting Season Zedek sought resistance, where on Perfect Vision Zedek searches for clarity during a time of exponential isolation and doubt. On “Binoculars,” she explores the difficulty of staying afloat, while overwhelmed by uncertainty of conflict and fear. Zedek’s simple and repetitive guitar line marches forward while longtime collaborator David Michael Curry’s viola swirls intensely around her. The pounding “Queasy” thunders and thrashes in the face of ignorance and intolerance while “Overblown” examines the strain of communicating across cavernous schisms. Every challenge and sadness Zedek forces us to see is met in equal measure by her defiant guitar and dissenting voice, a torch illuminating a path for the listener to navigate through the darkness.

Zedek composed the bulk of Perfect Vision remotely from her band. Lockdowns allowed Zedek to take more time working on arrangements as well as to collaborate remotely with artists from across the country. Zedek recorded the core of the album with the veritable rhythm section of bassist Winston Braman and drummer Gavin McCarthy (also of Zedek’s E and Karate) who brought a propulsive punch to the album. As the trio recorded at Machines With Magnets with engineer Seth Manchester, friends old and new remotely recorded their parts fleshing out Zedek vision and arrangements. Pedal steel guitarist Karan Zarkisian buoys the steady swagger of “Cranes” with sublime melodic lines seemingly in conversation with Zedek, in an intimate conversation between friends. Brian Carpenter’s trumpet harmonies punctuate the incendiary “From the Fire” with flares of Eastern European brio. On the waltzing “Smoked” and climactic album closer “Tolls,” Alison Chesley’s (Helen Money) cello bolsters David Michael Curry’s elegantly restrained lines. Mel Lederman added final touches of piano and back up harmonies in the final days at the studio.

Zedek and Manchester completed work on the album on January 6th, 2021, as the U.S. Capitol was under insurrection. Perfect Vision is an album fully willing to see, acknowledge and address the insidious forces of the modern world. Zedek brings considerable skills as a musician and as a groundbreaking advocate for both women in music and LGBTQ+ rights to face emotional and political obstacles with unblinking, steadfast determination. The sharp and diverse songs across Perfect Vision stand as profoundly reflective, moving anthems to purging malevolence.
Thalia Zedek

Tyler and the Names are a band based out of Cambridge, Mass. In recent years they have released three full length albums, the most recent being The Bullfrogs Lamentation. With a sound that can suggest The Rolling Thunder Revue hitched up with Ornette Coleman, they are not to be missed
Tyler and the Names

MC Kabir Sen with Krush Factory
2023-10-07 21:00 - 2023-10-08 00:00, 2023-11-04 21:00 - 2023-11-05 00:00
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MC Kabir Sen continue their monthly residency at the Lizard Lounge with the Krush Factory

Poetry Jam- Featured Poet Ink from Honey
2023-10-08 19:00 - 22:00
Ink From Honey

“When the voice of prison reform echoes, it should be the understanding of rehabilitated people being set free.”

Featuring the work of six incarcerated poets, curated by Joanna Célestin:

My name is Artem Vaskanyan. I am an Armenian refugee from Azerbaijan. During the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan my family and I, at age six, migrated to the Russian parts of the former Soviet Union and years later in 1993 we migrated to the United States. At age twenty in the year 2000 I was arrested and imprisoned. During my years of incarceration, my life set me on the path of spiritual and intellectual growth. Because of my drive to persevere, I was able to graduate from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts in 2020, become an activist, a writer & Perot and a published author of three books.

Thank you for listening.
Yours truly,
-Artem

My name is Eddie Mack. And I am 38 years of age. I am a black man raised in a single-parent household. I am currently serving a life sentence for a crime I did not commit under a theory called Joint Venture.

My name is Elbert Newson. I’m currently doing life in prison for murder in the first degree. I have a Joint Venture case: meaning there was a principal, and Joint Venturer and I was the Joint Venture. Plus, I had no principal in my case. To understand Joint Venture would be a miracle.
My name is Amos Don. Fiancé to Joanna Celestin. I am currently serving a life sentence; wrongfully convicted. Presently, I am enrolled in Emerson College. I am also a published poet, a children’s book author, and involved in civic engagement through DonofCreation/Ink from Honey LLC.
Peace Family, My name is Ray Còlon, I am 48 years old and I’ve been incarcerated for 24 years on a sentence of life without parole. I am the Latino Chairman on the Norfolk inmate council. I co-facilitate the Harriet Tubman project and I am enrolled in the Emerson Prison Initiative.

On behalf of Lizard Lounge, we are full of gratitude. We are the class of incarcerated people honored for this privilege to feature our poetry. Often society never witnessed rehabilitation take form. In account are six poets who are somewhat engaged in civic duties and some kind of transformative education/program while incarcerated. Our vision and hope seeks to arise understanding, and gain voting support on the joint venture bill sponsored by state representative Lindsay Sabadosa to abolish the contributing factor towards the mass incarceration of black and brown poverty communities, and the demographic of poor white people. Abolishing Joint Venture theory will unlock the chains of injustice, and allowing the person who never shared the intentions to commit the crime to revive Justice. If tonight moves you in any way, share our story, and let it be because Ink From Honey rehabilitates.

Thanks again.

Humbird
2023-10-11 20:00 - 23:00
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Get ready for a night of pure musical magic with Humbird!

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Songs, at their best, reflect something of where we are, where we’ve been, or where it is we’re going. Sometimes all at once, right when we need it.
Humbird makes music in pursuit of exactly this phenomenon. With deep roots in the midwest heartland, Humbird also travels like a bramble, fusing experimental folk and environmental Americana genres in a mosaic of theaters, clubs, gardens, festivals, barns, caves, and other strange locations. Siri Undlin, the songwriter behind the moniker, forges an explorative embodiment of the narrative folk song and balladry tradition for these modern times, inviting a whole host of collaborators and listeners to add and expand the music.
Humbird

Sound Kicks Out+Hipstory w Photocomfort, Notebook P and Karim!
2023-10-12 20:00 - 23:00
Sound Kicks Out and Hipstory present “A Night at the Lounge” a showcase featuring Photocomfort, Notebook P and Karim!

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Photocomfort
Photocomfort is the platform for Boston-based artist Justine Bowe’s careful, expansive pop. Photocomfort is the distillation of the exacting songwriting, production and performance craftsmanship she lends to other recording projects like Hex Girlfriend, Anjimile, and Cliff Notez. She borrows as much from 90’s radio heroes like Alanis Morissette and Dido as from Radiohead and Solange Knowles. Huge vocal hooks soar over nimble arrangements, presenting the self-doubt and isolation born from the pursuit of “the dream” of being an artist as harrowing, irresistible and irresistibly catchy. Stepping away from moody and humorous self-reflections, her upcoming album, “Patron Saint,” is a collection of platonic love songs. With pedal steels lending color to electronic and acoustic elements, live performance, and rich atmosphere, each of “Patron Saint’s” songs feature a crystal-clear portrait of a dear friend, many of whom feature her in their own musical projects and whose relationships and collaboration you can track through their published music. The songs, which could easily be at home in both jazz songbooks and folk clubs, deliver all the promise, care, and color true platonic love deserves.
Karim is a self taught multidisciplinary artist. The 28 year old Boston native began his creative journey taking on roles in his high school’s musicals and has since found his own musical style, influenced by R&B, soul, jazz, gospel, and classical. In 2014, he began producing beats on his phone and recorded his first feature. In 2016, he released his first solo track, “FYA” and began performing live at local events and open mics. In 2019, he released his first EP, “Huemanity,” which blends elements of neo-soul, indie pop, and alternative rock. Karim is also in a rap/sung duo, Da Grüvement, alongside his musical partner, Mos Generous, AKA Mos. Karim has backed Najee Janey for Boston Calling and headlined a concert at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. He is currently gearing up to release his 3rd body of work.
Notebook P is a singer/songwriter based in Randolph, MA. His influences revolve around love, life and loss, driven primarily by R&B and occasional anime references. Some of his catalog includes the EP, “I Made This, For You”, with producer Humbeats, “A Fool’s Paradise”, and has even been named the “R&B Artist of the Year” for the 2021 Boston Music Awards. P hopes to contribute to the ever changing landscape of music with a unique but relatable pen.

HipStory is a digital media production company responsible for creating unique, innovative, and inspiring art. We are redefining the future history of media by creating products that cultivate stories through professional audio & video production/engineering. We are dedicated to fostering a creative environment where clients can explore their vision and receive quality service.
Who We Are
A collective of artists & media production professionals dedicated to centering marginalized identities in media through music and film. We create art through music and film production, audio and video services, and event curation. The foundation of our mission exists because systems of oppression have historically erased, changed, and appropriated the culture of people of color. Media has become the catalyst for both oppressive and activist movements, our footprint in the world will be of action and intentional placement of marginalized identities, stories, and bodies in media through music and film.

Emily Grogan Band/Girl With a Hawk/Crow Follow
2023-10-13 21:00 - 2023-10-14 00:00
Come join us for an epic live show featuring the Emily Grogan Band, Girl With a Hawk, and Crow Follow!

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Girl with a Hawk is an American band formed in 2021. Fronted by singer/songwriter Linda Viens, the band includes Boston rock legends Richard Lamphear on keys, Dan Coughlin on guitar, Nancy Delaney on drums, and Daniel Bernfeld on bass. Described as “gorgeously emotive indie rock with Americana, garage, and punk roots, the band channels influences such as Tom Petty, The Pretenders, Wilco and the Velvet Underground into a sound all their own: melodic, rich and 100% rock.” The band’s latest single, The Romantic, put out on the seminal label Red on Red Records, has held steady in the #1,2, and 3 spot on Indie Radio Stations across the US and the UK since its release on May 12. Stay tuned: Girl with a Hawk releases their first five song EP on December 8, 2023!
Girl with a Hawk

Shaman Swamp Rock and Urban Cabaret. Crow Follow sparks bright embers to the darkest tunes. Gritty vocals, badass sax wrapped in velvet for your pleasure.
https://linktr.ee/crow_follow?utm_source=linktree_profile_shareCrow Follow
From starring in the prime-time Canadian television series “Rocker Moms”, composing a song for Song Pictures, being nominated Best Female Vocalist for the Boston Music Awards, to being a multi-instrumentalist in a myriad of bands, Emily Grogan is the quintessential renaissance woman whose passion and creativity is conveyed via her full-spectrum musicianship like no other.

A classically-trained pianist, punk rock drummer, reggae saxophonist and guitarist/singer songwriter, Emily’s performed both nationally and internationally and has written and released over 40 songs to critical acclaim. The Boston Herald says “Emily Grogan may well turn out to be the next big thing out of Boston’s music scene…”
Emily Grogan

Organically Good Trio
2023-10-14 21:00 - 2023-10-15 00:00
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Organically Good Trio is a Hammond organ driven roots instrumental group out of Boston.

Sometimes the band has a sound reminiscent of the great soul jazz organ trio albums of the late 60’s and at other times sounds like a Jacki Mittoo album with a heavy dose of roots reggae and dub.

Members
Paul Wolstencroft – Hammond Organ
Van Martin – Guitar
Tommy Benedetti – Drums

Lizard Lounge is a 21+ club.
Proof of vaccination is required.

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Christopher Johnson
2023-10-15 19:00 - 22:00
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Christopher Johnson

An internationally known Poetry Slam champion, Christopher Johnson is known for his constantly evolving style that without complaint, combines the experience discord of his past, the wisdom of now and the hope of the future to give voice to a universal message of human spark that connects us all. Using the intricate combination of academia, hip hop, traditional storytelling, theater, and just plain old common sense, Christopher provides a soulful, uplifting experience guaranteed to move his audience through several states of equilibrium, challenging the listener to remain in an emotional stagnant state. He organizes spoken word events, gives workshops on writing, performing, and public speaking, as well as growth and empowerment for youth and adults through words. He has been an active community member of Brown University’s student spoken word/poetry organization Word! since 2006. In 2010, Christopher was commissioned by Providence’s Department of Art Culture and Tourism to write the poem Providence Divine to commemorate the city’s 375th birthday, and by Brown University in 2012 in celebration of the inauguration of the university’s 19th president.

Dan Blakeslee Album Release for “Road Hymns” w/Special Guest Lindsay Foote
2023-10-19 20:00 - 23:00
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Dan Blakeslee celebrates the release of his upcoming “Road Hymns” with a hometown party at the Lizard Lounge!

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While attending art school in Baltimore, Maryland in the early 90’s Dan Blakeslee, a Maine native discovered that he had an equal and deeply rooted connection to music. He would sneak into the galleries to play his guitar through the late hours of the evening surrounded by easels and oil paintings. After four years in “Charm City,” he returned to his childhood home in the Tatnic Woods of South Berwick, ME. That summer he played street corners in New Hampshire and Maine while working at a lobster restaurant. His employer urged him to sever ties to manual labor for one of a more musical nature. A phone call from a friend offering him a room in Somerville, MA began his journey south in 1995. While settling into this artful community he began to practice his craft in the smoke-laden subways of Boston. He now has been making music and art in the New England region ever since, leading him to tour the U.S. He has performed with Langhorne Slim, Josh Ritter, David Wax Museum, Lydia Loveless, The Lumineers, Deer Tick, The Low Anthem, Brown Bird, Sean Rowe, Jonah Tolchin, Old 97’s, Death Vessel, Kimya Dawson among others. In 2015 his dream of playing Newport Folk Festival became a reality, where Bob Dylan went electric 50 years earlier.
The hills and highways are made for wandering, this is forever rooted in Dan Blakeslee who performs an average of 160+ shows per year. In a gymnasium at Laconia Prison (NH) in 2005, a crowd of 150 inmates became hushed after hearing Blakeslee’s songs of hardship, hope, and true grit later released as a live album. In the late winter of 2006 brought him a string of 27 shows with Tiger Saw (Dylan Metrano, Alan Bull, Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors)) to the southern US and straight up the Mississippi River igniting his passion to continue on this path for the years to come. In June of 2012 upon returning from the 120-mile journey by foot on the Massachusetts Walking Tour Blakeslee mapped out a tour of a different shape slated for the fall of that year. This venture spanned 7 states, with Blakeslee performing 31 shows in 25 days as his Halloween alter ego “Doctor Gasp” making a connect the dots Jack-O-Lantern face on a map of New England. 2013 brought him to Austin, TX in March for SXSW followed by a tour with his band “The Calabash Club” in late June of that year.
Blakeslee has released ten full-length albums to date. Two of them were recorded by long-time art school friend Ron Harrity (Peapod Recordings) the first “Lincoln Street Roughs” was recorded in a warehouse called The Map Room in Portland, Maine in 2007. The next was “Tatnic Tales” released on May 10, 2011. It is a collection of Blakeslee’s country folk songs most stemming from real life experiences. This album features his band The Calabash Club who formed in a Dover, NH basement in October of 2008. The members: Mike Effenberger – piano, Nick Phaneuf – bass, and Jim Rudolf – drums; are the essential ingredients in this acoustic folk outfit. “Tatnic Tales” was recorded in Dean Ludington’s barn in North Berwick, ME by the railroad as the friendship between the members of the band bloomed. “Tatnic Tales” is the first full-length album the band has recorded together to date. Blakeslee’s following album “Owed To The Tanglin’ Wind” was recorded at the Columbus Theatre in Providence, RI by Ben Knox Miller and Jeffrey Prystowsky (The Low Anthem). It was released on August 19th, 2014 with which Blakeslee did extensive touring in 2015. This album received “Album Of The Year” from Red Line Roots. Blakeslee was also awarded 2014 “Folk Artist Of The Year” at the Boston Music Awards, and “Male Performer of The Year” at the 2015 New England Music Awards. After a pause between full-band records his long awaited album “The Alley Walker” recorded by studio wizard Chris Chase (The Noise Floor) featuring his band The Calabash Club came out in 2017 to much acclaim. After touring the US a couple of times and much journeying it was time to get back in the studio. Blakeslee had been dreaming of making a full-length Christmas album for over a decade inspired by his retro music collection. So on a cold winter night in 2019 Blakeslee stepped into the studio for the first session of “Christmasland Jubilee”. This full-length album by Dan Blakeslee and the Calabash Club was revealed on December 1, 2020, and is their third release together.
Dan Blakeslee

Lindsay Foote has made a career of crafting sincere music built around honest lyricism and vibrant arrangements steeped in folk traditions. The songwriter’s path has been an unconventional one. Though Massachusetts-born, she spent the formative years of her twenties in Toronto, entrenching herself in the diverse music scene. During those years, she released two EPs, became a two-time finalist in the Canadian Songwriting Competition, and completed significant tours through the US and Canada.
She returned to her hometown of Boston in 2019, and has since been making a name for herself in the vibrant folk scene. In January 2020, Foote released her latest EP, Rollercoaster, with a sold out show at Club Passim. On this EP, Foote collaborated with Toronto’s multi-instrumentalist and producer ​Joel Schwartz. After receiving significant attention on the folk circuit, they decided to work together on her upcoming single “Guarded Heart.” “Guarded Heart” finds her delving deeper into an americana sound, combining traditional folk elements with her signature hook-friendly, songwriting.
https://www.lindsayfoote.com/

Dub Apocalypse
2023-10-20 21:00 - 2023-10-21 00:00
Dub Apocolypse returns to the Lizard Lounge!

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Dub Apocalypse is an instrumental dub reggae band from Boston, MA. Band members are Tommy Benedetti-drums,Van Martin-guitar,Johnny Trama-guitar,Aaron Bellamy-bass,and Timo Shanko-sax/bass. The band came together in 2007, led by drummer Tommy Benedetti and guitarist, Johnny Trama.Tommy Benedetti is one of the founding members of American Reggae Pioneers,John Brown’s Body. He brings a wealth of experience from the reggae/dub scene to the table,having recorded albums for the legendary Shanachie Label,John Zorn’s Tzadik Label (mixed by Bill Laswell),and is currently with John Brown’s Body on Easy Star Records. This history is combined with almost 2 decades of International touring,as well as backing some of the giants of Jamaican music,including The Meditations and Justin Hinds.
Guitarist Johnny Trama adds a soulful blues touch to the Dub Apocalypse signature sound.Trama has spent time on the road with the great Ron Levy, BB King’s organ player, as well as many other regional rock and soul/r&b acts. Not long after Dub Apocalypse came together, longtime friend Timo Shanko entered the fold.A dual threat on both bass and saxophone,Shanko is a veteran of the blues and free jazz scene.He spent many years on the road with Blues legend, Eddie Kirkland, as well as with G. Love and Special Sauce. Shanko is also a prolific composer,and his improvisational stylings are an integral part of the Dub Apocalypse sound. Although DA started out as more of a collective,in the past few years the lineup has solidified with the addition of bassist Aaron Bellamy and guitarist Van Martin. Bellamy is a longtime fixture in the Boston funk scene,and in combination with Benedetti ,they form the deep,militant sound at the core of Dub Apocalypse.
Originally hailing from Chicago,Van Martin rounds out the lineup on guitar. Martin has much touring experience as well, including appearances with Bernie Worrell and Big Daddy Kane. His sonic textures,adventurous playing and songwriting have helped Dub Apocalypse take their sound to a new level. The DA sound is an evolving mix of original compositions and their own interpretations of classic Jamaican and UK songs and dub plates. Heavy hitting drum and bass grooves set the table. A twin guitar attack, with Trama’s rhythmic anchor,and Martin’s dub sonics, swirl in and out in tandem. These pieces, combined with Timo Shanko’s Coltrane inspired sax approach, give Dub Apocalypse a

Kimaya Diggs/Kendra Mckinley
2023-10-21 21:00 - 2023-10-22 00:00
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Kimaya Diggs and Kendra Mckinley come together for a night at the Lizard Lounge!

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Musician Kimaya Diggs navigates her world with stories. Penning her first one-woman show as a little kid, she’s published fiction, earned a Callaloo fellowship for poetry, and works days as a speechwriter—not to mention the accolades her songwriting’s earned, including a New England Music Awards nod, gigs at legendary folk haunts like Club Passim, and appearances at Green River Festival, Rubblebucket’s Dream Picnic, and the Emily Dickinson festival. “I’ve always thought of my writing and music as one thing—connective storytelling,” Diggs explains. But while her mother was sick with a twelve-year illness, Diggs felt unable to share the whole truth. Her first LP, 2018’s Breastfed, was largely about her mom, but it wasn’t until her passing that Diggs was free to use songwriting to process. “Sharing my grieving experience has resonated with people; they’re excited to hear something that’s not all good,” notes Diggs. To help cope, Diggs and her husband Jacob Rosazza—also her musical collaborator—rescued an ex-racing dog, Quincy. Though they shared only two years together, caring for the traumatized animal helped Diggs find purpose. “Having him was challenging, but at the same time, he’s why we survived the first year without my mom,” offers Diggs. “It was special to get to love a creature so much—because of, in spite of, and in addition to the challenges he came with.” Losing Quincy gave her greater insight on heartache, so she named her newest album after him.
Kimaya Diggs

Kendra McKinley paints on her clothes and makes music for smoking weed with your bra off. Whether she’s performing solo with a guitar and loop pedal or dancing with a full live band Kendra’s confident, honeyed voice indulges all who hear it.
Kendra Mckinley

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Featured Poet Bojah
2023-10-22 19:00 - 22:00
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Featured Poet Bojah

Bojah, the spoken soul hop messenger first came on the scene combining the zeitgeist of spoken word, conscious hip-hop, and neo-soul of the early 00’s. He went on to form an all-star band of Boston’s best funk musicians, singers, and MCs producing Insurrection Muzik.
The band is called Bojah and the Insurrection. Bojah has performed all across the country and in various parts of the world from Cuba to Venezuela, to Nigeria, from Minneapolis to Chicago, to NY, to DC, the Insurrection has performed in front of tens of thousands. Almost forecasting our current time Bojah and the Insurrection has a deep catalog of anthems against police brutality and the struggle against injustice.
Bojah is also an activist who helped to form and lead Mass Action Against Police Brutality which assists victims of police brutality in Boston and MA, as well as across the country. He has helped lead numerous demonstrations in Greater Boston and national demonstrations in Minneapolis and Washington, DC.
www.bojah.net

Van Gordon Martin
2023-10-25 20:00 - 23:00
Van Gordon Martin trio comes to the Lizard Lounge!

Van Gordon Martin is a sonic chameleon and deeply creative artist.
Performing a wide range of musical styles.
VGM is a multi-instrumental producer and powerhouse on lead guitar,
an has toured nationally and internationally with a unique mix of artist including;
Current projects Organically Good Trio, Dub Apocalypse
G Love and Special Sauce, Big Daddy Kane, The Skatalites, and many more.
The current line up of VGM trio ft Nate Edgar & Tommy B (JBB)
Van Gordon Martin

Samantha Farrell Monthly Residency with special guest Halley Elwell
2023-10-26 20:00 - 23:00
Samantha Farrell’s monthly residency resumes with special guest Halley Elwell

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Samantha Farrell is a Boston-based musician and vocalist whose sound is a gorgeously moody fusion of jazz, alt R&B and pop. Once described as “the best singer-songwriter you’ve never heard of,” by NBC Los Angeles, Farrell has always been understated in her approach to her music career – but, those who are in the know, have been quietly dazzled with her unique voice, rhythmic subtleties and tonal nuance for years.
Endlessly smooth with a bittersweet edge, Farrell’s residency at the beloved Lizard Lounge in Cambridge comes a few months ahead of the completion of her fourth full length album produced by local stalwart, Will Dailey. Supported by some of the best session players in town, her repertoire will see past and future favorites discreetly spun into vibey, sonic spells once a month for the duration of the year.
“Prodigious and undulating vocals that are delivered with rare, swinging passion.”
– Relix Magazine
“A liquor-honey voice, deft guitar work, and slightly melancholic tones that meld to form an aching and elegant aural tapestry.”
– Huffington Post
Samantha Farrell

Halley Elwell is a songwriter whose music “sparks nostalgia, but is also notable for her fantastic voice and well-crafted lyric” (Aimsel Ponti, Portland Press Herald). She has earned accolades from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, ASCAP, and the Nashville Songwriters Association. Her EP, Last of What I Know, was released in 2020 and she is currently at work on her next recording project.
Halley Elwell

The Headhunters 50th Anniversary Tour Early Show
2023-10-27 19:00 - 20:30
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The Headhunters 50th Anniversary Tour comes to the Lizard Lounge.

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Few bands can boast a history as fortuitous and storied as The Headhunters. That history began back in 1973 when iconic musician Herbie Hancock formed the Headhunters -saxophonist/clarinetist Bennie Maupin, bassist Paul Jackson Jr., drummer Harvey Mason, and percussionist Bill Summers. What each member of the Headhunters brought to the table helped forge a timeless legacy and history that most bands can only dream of. Their blend of jazz with funk and rock reached millions of fans of jazz, rock, funk, and R&B alike. With over a million albums sold, the band’s legacy would inspire musicians of every genre for years to come, be sampled by various rap artists throughout the
’80s and ’90s, and influence countless musicians’ styles of playing today.
The Headhunters’ impact remains a global phenomenon, and their time with Hancock proved to be a life changing experience. The band has released 6 more full length albums including “Thrust” in 1974 with the addition of drummer Mike Clark, struck out on their own in 1975, without Hancock’s involvement, on
“Survival of the Fittest” and on “Straight from the Gate” in 1977.
After a twenty year hiatus they reunited in 1998 with Hancock for the Verve album “Return of the Headhunters” with Clark, Jackson, and Summers performing as the Headhunters actively touring until the March 2021 passing of Jackson. In addition to original members Clark and Summers, the line up of the band consists of Chris Severin on bass, Donald Harrison on saxophone and Kyle Roussel on piano.
The Headhunters
(Photos courtesy of Josh Rheinhart, Rheinhart Studios)

The Headhunters 50th Anniversary Tour Late Show
2023-10-27 21:00 - 23:00
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The Headhunters 50th anniversary Tour comes to the Lizard Lounge

MUST BE 21+

Few bands can boast a history as fortuitous and storied as The Headhunters. That history began back in 1973 when iconic musician Herbie Hancock formed the Headhunters – saxophonist/clarinetist Bennie Maupin, bassist Paul Jackson Jr., drummer Harvey Mason, and percussionist Bill Summers. What each member of the Headhunters brought to the table helped forge a timeless legacy and history that most bands can only dream of. Their blend of jazz with funk and rock reached millions of fans of jazz, rock, funk, and R&B alike. With over a million albums sold, the band’s legacy would inspire musicians of every genre for years to come, be sampled by various rap artists throughout the
’80s and ’90s, and influence countless musicians’ styles of playing today.
The Headhunters’ impact remains a global phenomenon, and their time with Hancock proved to be a life changing experience. The band has released 6 more full length albums including “Thrust” in 1974 with the addition of drummer Mike Clark, struck out on their own in 1975, without Hancock’s involvement, on
“Survival of the Fittest” and on “Straight from the Gate” in 1977.
After a twenty year hiatus they reunited in 1998 with Hancock for the Verve album “Return of the Headhunters” with Clark, Jackson, and Summers performing as the Headhunters actively touring until the March 2021 passing of Jackson. In addition to original members Clark and Summers, the line up of the band consists of Chris Severin on bass, Donald Harrison on saxophone and Kyle Roussel on piano.
The Headhunters

Old Jack Last Saturdays with Officer X and Dose of Thunder
2023-10-28 21:00 - 2023-10-29 00:00
Old Jack returns doing an unplugged jukebox set, Officer X doing Def Leppard’s Greatest Hits and Dose of Thunder, a Replacements tribute.

Since their first show way back in 2008, critics and fans knew there was something unique about OldJack. Hailed as the most underrated band in Boston, with three guitars, bass, drums, organ/keys, a female background singer, and a front man from yesterday, OldJack belts out their original material with lots of harmonies, big vocals, and guitar solos galore.
From being the underdog, wild card winning, reprieved Rock n’ Roll Rumble finalists to Boston Music Awards nominees and a staple of multiple music festivals in the northeast – OldJack has firmly planted their feet in the New England Music Scene, making music for music’s sake.
While the members have changed and the band has grown in numbers (they currently bring 7-8 people to the stage), the band is constantly developing and exploring its signature Old Soul Rock ‘n’ Roll sound.
OldJack’s catalog includes multiple EPs since its creation, Union Glory and Gone Before You Know, a Maxi-Single and the While Label Single Series. In 2014, they put out their first full-length album since the band’s debut, What Is Home To You. The collection of eight tracks pays homage to the band’s influences and styles that have had critics wondering where to classify them for years.

Because the sound rising up from the fiery gates below comes from Officer X, as the Boston heavy rock brigade unleashes debut album Hell Is Coming on Friday, September 30. A steady storm of hard rock fury and traditional heavy metal brimstone, the quartet’s inaugural record burns through the speakers via a trio of formats – compact disc, cassette, and digital.
The release of Hell Is Coming is a pivotal moment for the band, one unbothered by current musical trends and indifferent to what others think a convergence of hard and heavy music should sound like in 2022. Inspired by the new wave of traditional heavy metal that combines the majesty of Maiden, the dreamworld of Dio, and the power of Priest, Officer X formed a few short years back by a pair of longtime conspirators in vocalist and guitarist Rodrigo van Stoli (Bang Camaro, Gymnasium) and bassist and vocalist Peet Golan (Spring Heeled Jack), rounded out just recently as a proper quartet alongside guitarist Robbie Davis and drummer Dave Barresi.

Dose of Thunder is a Boston-based band celebrating the music of the The Replacements!

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Featured pPoet Lindsey O’Neill
2023-10-29 19:00 - 22:00
Lindsey O’Neill is a poet, teacher, and performance artist. She is founder of Lindsey O’Neill Yoga & Writing, teaches creative writing at Boston’s GrubStreet, and has been part of the Lizard Lounge poetry slam and spoken word scene since 2016. Lindsey infuses her writing classes with contemplative practices to foster compassionate awareness, distill an authentic voice, and enhance sustainable creativity. She believes both awareness-building practices and the creative arts are capable of inspiring community connection leading to social change. Lindsey holds a 200HR Teacher Training Certification from The New England School of Integrative Yoga Therapeutics, a City of Boston Artist Certification, and an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. Lindsey has had poems published in FUSION magazine, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, and Mass Poetry’s “Poem of the Moment.” She is currently at work on her first (and second) poetry collections.

Club d'Elf
2023-10-31 20:00 - 23:00
Club d’Elf Halloween Spooktacular!

A long-standing tradition returns: Club d’Elf at The Lizard for its first Halloween show since 2019! Halloween has long been a sacred (scared?!) day for the band, and its Lizard / Halloween shows were a long-standing tradition, with the band dressing in costume and getting its spooky on. The tradition had to pause in 2020 due to the pandemic, but it’s back full force this year, with a creepy line up of Van Gordon Martin (guitar), Paul Schultheis (keys), Mister Rourke (turntables), Mike Rivard (bass & sintir), Vicente Lebron (congas), Dean Johnston (drums) w/ Tom Hall (sax). Costumes are encouraged!
Club d’Elf has been helping audiences lose track of time for twenty five years with its mesmerizing synthesis of Moroccan traditional music and electronic, dubbed-out funk. Circling about bassist/composer Mike Rivard and drummer Dean Johnston, each Club d’Elf performance features a different line-up, drawn from a constellation of some of the most creative improvisers from the jazz, DJ, rock & world music scenes of Boston, NYC and beyond. The band’s music draws from a startlingly wide spectrum of styles, including jazz, hip hop, electronica, avant garde, prog-rock and dub. Under the tutelage of member Brahim Fribgane (who hails from Casablanca) the band has absorbed Moroccan trance music, which is now an essential part of the mix. Diverse audiences are drawn to Fribgane’s mesmerizing oud stylings, and Rivard’s commanding playing of the Moroccan sintir. Trance forms the central core of the Club d’Elf aesthetic, weaving together the band’s various influences.
The bands latest album, ‘You Never Know’ (April 2022) rose to #2 on the Relix chart. The record unfurls upon kaleidoscopic clouds of spiced smoke, shifting from chopped dub-jazz through trance epics that reimagine Boston as a city of bazaars. Club d’Elf pay tribute to the music and musicians who have been primary
influences, with half the album being covers of gnawa, Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Moroccan band Nass el-Ghiwane, and Frank Zappa. The other half consists of original music inspired by Rivard’s personal journey into darkness following a near death experience in the remote jungle of the Peruvian Amazon.
“You Never Know is a wide ranging romp, full of serenity, chaos, longing, improvisation and peerless musicianship inspired by music from India and Morocco as well as the maverick jazz of Miles Davis and Frank Zappa.” – Banning Eyre, Afropop Worldwide
“Crushed between the borders of Morocco, jam band land and the kingdom of avant-garde jazz lies Club d’Elf…James Brown-meets-Sun-Ra.” – Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald
“Sounds like the lovechild of Pink Floyd and George Clinton, dropped in Marrakesh…some deeply psychedelic music.” – Marlon Bishop, WNYC
Club d’Elf

Baker Thomas Band
2023-11-02 20:00 - 23:00
A longtime TOAD favorite, the Baker Thomas Band live at the Lizard Lounge with Special Guest Darren Buck (Hank Wonder Trio)

Whether it’s the infectious grooves, hooks, horns, heartbreakers or anthemic rock finale’s, Baker Thomas Band invokes a spectrum of high spirits and feeds the soul like a night out with good friends should.

Beginning on stage at TOAD in Cambridge, MA in 2009, BTB is an eclectic collection of musicians and good friends getting together to make great music and have a blast!

“After years of being a singer/songwriter/solo bassist, the one thing I missed the most was the raw energy and power of a band. All my roots are from rock and roll…. being a soloist was a serious departure from that,” Tom says. Baker Thomas Band or “BTB” was not intended to be as big as it is now. The original line up was drums, bass, guitar, keyboard and trombone. From that humble 5 we’ve grown and now the band is rarely less than 9 or 10 artists with a full horn section and percussion section as well.” BTB has been a blast and hearing my songs interpreted through so many talented artists is a dream come true!” – Tom “The Baker” Bianchi
Baker Thomas Band

Alex & The People, Jabbering Trout and Aldous Collins
2023-11-03 21:00 - 2023-11-04 00:00
Jabbering Trout, Alex and the People and Aldous Collins in

Jabbering Trout is a killah live act with memorable original songs. They began their trajectory in the 90s in Boston, MA. They were a high-energy, two-person, drum and guitar duo. They started out in the thriving local acoustic scene, won Boston’s Acoustic Underground competition, and were off and running, touring clubs and playing festivals nationally.

Trout has played in front of 1000s opening up for acts like Aerosmith, Dave Matthews Band, Jeff Buckley, Ani Difranco — and many more. But their native environment was rock and acoustic clubs across the country where they delivered their solid, catchy songs with energy. Jabbering Trout had many incarnations after the original band broke up, but the common theme is solid, catchy songwriting delivered live with energy.
Jabbering Trout

Alex & the People are a folk-rock project rooted in the grassroots activism of Jamaica Plain and the soulful shores of Lesvos, Greece. Singer-songwriter Alex Alvanos, a quirky nonprofit leader & environmentalist, resigns himself to the influence of nature and the everyday struggles of people trying to cope with this time on earth.

Their newest release, ‘Late Night Take Out’ (available everywhere 11/3/23), shows the band’s versatility in songwriting and musicianship from 00s Mumford & Sons intimate folk, to steely country, to 90s era Dave Matthews Band jam rock. Listening to the album is like smelling dirt from a freshly planted forest, earthy and raw, equal parts beginning and end. Playing with themes from environmental catastrophe to spiritual awakening, the album is meant as much for grieving the loss of the world as we know it, as it is for waking up in the middle of the night to throw a big, shoes-off party with your neighbors that ends at sunrise with planting trees (and hope) into uncertain future.
Alex and the People

Aldous Collins is a New England born and bred singer/songwriter. Living and loving on The South Shore of Massachusetts.
Aldous Collins

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Featured Poet Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor
2023-11-05 19:00 - 22:00
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam with Featured Poet, Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor

Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor is a multi-award-winning, interdisciplinary artist and educator, whose works span the mediums of spoken word, theater, music, film, literature, and scholarly works. A vocalist and pianist of jazz, soul and house music, His recent novel LAND of the BLACK SQUIRRELS is available through his website and will soon be in reprint. He is the co-founder and music director for the multi-Grammy nominated indie soul-funk band, The GroovaLottos; the owner of Polyphonic Studios in Wareham, MA and the head of production for Poly-Groove Records. Mwalim is a tenured associate professor of English, Communications and Black Studies at UMass Dartmouth. Mwalim has been on a quest to unlock the sonic mathematics of the guitar since January of 2022, leading to the creation of a project called “Thunderchild” a story-song performance work and album. For more info go to https://www.daphunkeeprofessor.com/

TINKERTOWN/Ghosts and Shadows
2023-11-08 20:00 - 23:00
TINKERTOWN and Ghosts and Shadows live at the Lizard Lounge.

Led by Boston rock veteran Dean Fisher and vocalist Gabriella Lawrence, TINKERTOWN plays original rock with nods to several different styles of Americana. Featuring local luminaries Russell Chudnofsky, Elizabeth Steen, Joe McMahon and Chris Anzalone. Members of TINKERTOWN have played with such artists as: Natalie Merchant, Tanya Donelly, Juliana Hatfield, Will Dailey, Lori McKenna, Billy Bragg, Tim Gearan, Jimmy Ryan, and Roomful of Blues.

Ghosts and Shadows, a Boston-based rock band established in 2013, brings together a lineup of musicians from some of the city’s most notable indie outfits, including Ultrabreakfast, Cheater Pint, Julianna Hatfield 3, Dylan in the Movies, Miskatonic, and Calendar Girl. Their sound is a blend of original guitar-driven power pop and dark new wave, with catchy melodies, driving rhythms, introspective lyrics, surrealist themes, and an atmospheric edge.
Featuring Paul Wisner, Gabriella Lawrence, Steve Reynolds and Dean Fisher.
Ghosts and Shadows

Cold Chocolate w/ Kat & Brad
2023-11-09 20:00 - 23:00
Cold Chocolate return to the Lizard Lounge with special guests Kat and Brad!

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Cold Chocolate is a genre-bending Americana band that fuses folk, funk and bluegrass to create a unique sound all their own. Led by Ethan Robbins (vocals/guitar/mandolin) and Ariel Bernstein (vocals/percussion/banjo), the Boston-based duo released their fourth full-length album, DUO, in the summer of 2022. “We’re growing as a band, and I think that shows in our songwriting,” says Robbins. “I see this album as a leaping off point for many more new albums to come, and that’s an exciting prospect,” adds Bernstein.
Punctuated by tight harmonies and skillful musicianship, Cold Chocolate has quickly gained recognition for their original music and high-energy shows. The band has shared bills with Leftover Salmon, David Grisman, and Angelique Kidjo, and regularly performs at venues and music festivals across the country. Jason Verlinde of The Fretboard Journal who covered the band’s FreshGrass Festival set noted “there were plenty of magical moments…I will never forget Cold Chocolate perform.” Kathy Sands-Boehmer of No Depression raved, ” feels the music in his heart and soul and it shows when he plays. Ethan becomes the music on stage. There’s an almost mystical connection between his guitar and the notes that flow out of it.”
Cold Chocolate

Drawing from 50s and 60s pop, American Songbook standards, and much more, this vibrant duo channels and fuses these influences through two voices, a guitar, and violin to bring you a mixture of original songs and dusted off covers from the past.
The two consist of Brad Bensko on Vocals and Guitar, and Kathleen Parks (of Twisted Pine) on Vocals, and Five-Stringed Fiddle.
In the fall of 2018 the duo recorded, produced, and mixed their first LP of original material split equally at their home studio full of delightful, vintage, and analog recording equipment, Bearded Cat Studio and with the master, recording engineer Chris Rival’s Middleville Studio. Since its release in 2019 it has been loved, and received high praise by audiences all over New England.
A follow up two track EP was released online in 2020 via Bandcamp. The tracks are from their last live show at Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts before the pandemic hit the states. In a way it reminisces about a time when live music was close, intimate, and there to take your troubles away for a little while.
With live music back be sure to not miss this happy duo. Join them at an upcoming show to hear selections from their album and fresh cuts from their favorite time periods!
Kat and Brad

Macrotones and the Ghost Funk Orchestra
2023-11-10 21:00 - 2023-11-11 00:00
The Macrotones and Ghost Funk Orchestra live at the Lizard Lounge!

Established in Boston in 2007, The Macrotones are a 10-piece unit steeped in off-beat funk & soul rhythms from all over the globe. Blazing horns meet mighty hooks for a progressive mix fit to fill any dancefloor.
The band’s tightly-honed grooves and infectious sound has shared the stage with likeminded practitioners such as Lee Fields & the Expressions, Durand Jones & the Indications, the Budos Band, Grupo Fantasma, Orgone, Ikebe Shakedown, and Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars. Since typical genre descriptions fail to fully capture the scope of the Macrotones sound, new monikers need exploration: imperial funk, astrobeat, or even “a soundtrack for spies” all fit.
After self-recording their first record, 2008’s Wayne Manor, the Macrotones followed up with two studio albums: First Signs of Danger, released on Young Cub Records in 2010 and produced by Craig Welsh (John Brown’s Body, 10 Ft Ganja Plant), and Darvaza, released on Music ADD Records in 2012 and produced by Sean Slade (Radiohead, Morphine).
2016 saw the release of Macro’s 3rd full length, Unknown Outpost, with Boston Music Award-wInner and Cramm-nominated engineer/producer Benny Grotto at the helm.
The LP was also their first to feature guest vocalists on a number of songs, including emerging star Iyeoka. Several members of the band toured internationally with Iyeoka, performing some of their original tunes to large crowds across Europe.
In the fall of 2017, the band released two back-to-back EP’s; The Prisoner Flees & The Shark Eats on Music ADD Records. The first was tracked at Converse Rubber Tracks Boston studio and mixed by Dan Cardinal, while the second was done with Benny Grotto at Mad Oak Studios in Allston MA.
A new era for the band began in 2019 when friend and occasional guest vocalist Phil Desisto joined full time. Phil’s commanding and gritty vocals, drawing comparisons to Bobby Womack, saw the band embrace more classic soul sounds from the ‘6os and ‘705, while retaining their edgy funk. Just before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, they tracked a 4-songEP and released Bloody Hands on Music ADD in May 2020.
Macrotones

Ghost Funk Orchestra is the brainchild of composer/multi-instrumentalist Seth Applebaum.
What started as a one-man recording project has now evolved into a powerhouse live band.
It’s a sonic kaleidoscope that defies genre specification, but draws heavy influence from the worlds of soul, psych rock, salsa, and beyond.
Their unique blend of genres has attracted praise from the likes of NPR, Bandcamp, KUTX, Brooklyn Vegan, Earmilk, and more.
Over the years they’ve had the honor of sharing the stage with the likes of Os Mutantes, Marco Benevento, La Luz, Monophonics, The Nude Party, and The Jack Moves,
as well as playing such legendary festivals as Montreal Jazz, Treefort, Telluride Jazz, Otis Mountain Get Down, and BRIC’s NYC Winter Jazz.
Local NY blog Post-Trash described their sound as a ‘psych odyssey of traditional sounds delivered in a non-traditional fashion.’
Bandcamp’s Editorial Director J. Edward Keyes praised the band’s ability to ‘leave no funk-adjacent genre unexplored.’
Experimentation is the key, and unpredictability is what has been attracting folks from all corners of the globe to see what GFO pulls off next…

Ghost Funk Orchestra

Pressure Cooker Returns to the Lizard Lounge!
2023-11-11 21:00 - 2023-11-12 00:00
Pressure Cooker bring a mix of reggae and ska to the Lizard stage.

Pressure Cooker is a nine piece reggae/ska/rocksteady band from Boston. The group writes, records, and performs original songs in the styles of 1960s and 1970s Jamaican music. The group formed in 1997.

Pressure Cooker has released seven full-length CDs. Fronted by lead singer Craig Akira Fujita and backed by a core of Boston-area musicians, the band has played to audiences at clubs and festivals spanning from New England to Chicago. Over the years, Pressure Cooker has opened locally for notable artists of roots reggae music including Toots & the Maytals, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, The Wailers, Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan, The Skatalites, Culture, Laurel Aitken, Eek-A-Mouse, Julian Marley, and Sister Carol.
