Behind the Beat: Take a Load Off, Jerry

Behind the Beat: Take a Load Off, Jerry

by | Jun 4, 2009 | Music

Jerry Brookman fell in love with music as a boy in Middletown, Conn., riding shotgun in his father's old '69 Chevy pickup on their weekly trips to the dump. "We'd drive around, listening to old AM radio stations," he recalls. "I remember he...
SoundCheck: An Affinity for Flamenco

SoundCheck: An Affinity for Flamenco

by | Jun 4, 2009 | Music

The Northampton Center for the Arts often hosts interesting and innovative work, and June 14 brings that venerable locale a combination of old and new that ought to prove quite enticing. On the Valley dance scene since 1998, Ines Arrubla is a flamenco dancer who's...
The Lamb Lies Down in Longmeadow

The Lamb Lies Down in Longmeadow

by | Jun 4, 2009 | Music

A host of voices in harmony is perhaps one of the most spine-tingling musical experiences an audience can take in, especially in an acoustically superior room. Composers of sacred music (and architects of churches and cathedrals) have understood this for centuries,...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Jun 4, 2009 | Music

ISISWavering Radiant(Ipecac)Art metal has often had the misfortune of being a genre whose sound you can't quite put your finger on, but with their latest release, ISIS seem on the verge of taking their music to an even rarer realm: the mainstream. Ambient guitar...
Nightcrawler: Bangles Bound

Nightcrawler: Bangles Bound

by | Jun 4, 2009 | Music

As chronicled here over the past half a decade, all-female rockers Antigone Rising (antigonerising.com) have overcome many hurdles that would have rendered lesser bands down and out.True, Antigone may have antagonized some of the heartbreak themselves—choosing...