Craven Boosts Dinosaur Mural

by | Jan 21, 2010 | News

Each year in Holyoke, Highland Hardware and Bike Shop and Mansir Printing collaborate on printing a calendar illustrated with a selection of the historic images from the collection of Harry Craven, the owner of Highland Hardware. Profits are donated to a local...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Jan 21, 2010 | Music

Carrie RodriquezLive in Louisville(Luz Music)Some celebs put on cowboy boots because they're working on their image. When Carrie Rodriguez slips them on, it's because she's ready to kick serious musical butt. Born in Brooklyn but sounding for all the world...
Behind the Beat: Parlour Games

Behind the Beat: Parlour Games

by | Jan 21, 2010 | Music

Vancouver's Parlour Steps is dedicated to the art of the single, trafficking in three-minute chunks of intelli-pop bliss that have landed the band on radio rotations and iTunes playlists all over North America.The quintet—Caleb Stull on voice and guitar;...
Newgrass

Newgrass

by | Jan 21, 2010 | Music

Described on his website as his "new baby bluegrass band," Lloyd Cole and his Small Ensemble bring acoustic instrumentation to Easthampton for a special warm-up show as part of the launch of a new world tour. Though not technically bluegrass performers, Cole...
Soundcheck: The Art of Leisure

Soundcheck: The Art of Leisure

by | Jan 21, 2010 | Music

According to local band Leisure Colony, rock music has become so fragmented that even its subgenres are too nebulous to be defined."Forty years ago, if you said that you were in a rock band, it was clearer, because the genre was newer," says Leisure Colonist...