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Opening Soon in Allston: Root

(Photo from Root on Facebook) According to Eater Boston, a new plant-based restaurant called Root is due to open in Allston in the next few weeks, in the…

Night of the Furies – New Album from the Rosebuds

The Rosebuds, who earlier put out a free album of Sade covers titled Love Deluxe, have a new album out now on Bandcamp – Night of the Furies…

David Byrne & St. Vincent – Free EP

In support of promotion for the “Love this Giant” tour 2013, David Byrne and St. Vincent have posted a tour video and a free EP. The EP has…

Bring it on Down to Veganville

Live from Newport Folk: Free Music from Paste

Via Noisetrade and Paste, an album of live tracks from the Newport Folk Festival: They’ve also got a set of videos from Newport at the Paste site.

New Year’s Day U2

Got a promotional email from Wolgang’s Vault pointing to U2’s September 18, 1987 show at the Boston Garden, from the Joshua Tree tour. Thanks to a well placed…

History of Man in 3:30

Tom Waits Covers (Drunk Covers VII)

The fine folks at The Waiting Room recently resurrected Drunk Covers VII. The original Drunk Covers series was one of my favorite parts of The Waiting Room, and…

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in Tiny Desk Concert

This has got to be my favorite Tiny Desk Concert of the year. Macklemore has so much energy and enthusiasm – but still manages to pull off the…

Reignwolf live on KEXP

Vegan Black Metal Chef at ROFLCON

This weekend I was lucky to attend ROFLCON III, the third (and reportedly final) version of the internet culture conference at MIT. One of my favorite sessions was…

Forget Angry Birds, Get Spaceward Ho!

Spaceward Ho! was one of my all-time favorite games on the Mac in the 1990s – and now it has been released for the iPad!

The Giving Tree Band on Audiotree Live

Great session from Giving Tree Band on Audiotree Live – http://www.audiotreemusic.com/music/sessions/atl_thegivingtreeband/video.html

Using Yahoo! Pipes to get Podcast Feed from Official.fm

(This post is a bit more geeky, in the coding sense, than the usual goatless fare – but it is about music in the end). One of my…

New (to me) podcast (rathole radio) and music (8in8)

I’ve long been a subscriber to Floss Weekly, a video/audio podcast in the TWiT network focused on Free/Libre/Open Source Software. One of the occasional co-hosts of that show,…

Veggie Galaxy – Vegetarian Diner and Vegan Bakery

This weekend during PodCamp Boston I took a trip down the red line to Central square and checked out Veggie Galaxy, the new Vegetarian Diner and Vegan Bakery…

Veganism and Attention Science: Seeing the Gorilla

Vegan Montreal

Spent last weekend in Montreal – had a great time at DrupalCamp, and visited a number of great restaurants. The Green Panther / La Panther Verte (Yelp) The…

Other Lives

So I’m sometimes convinced I should just turn this blog into an auto-re-posting feed of everything that comes into my podcast client: between KEXP‘s Music That Matters, Live…

The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow

Discovered this wonderful new duo via Morning Becomes Eclectic. Imagine The Swell Season if Glen Hansard was from Alabama rather than Ireland, Marketa Irglova from LA rather than…