Sun Cut Flat: Show Preview (Middle East Upstairs: 03.21.2010)

Sun Cut Flat, a Foundwaves Weekly Pick, are bringing their gorgeous sounds to the Middle East Upstairs tonight…

Kid Chocolate: Show Preview (Great Scott: 03.22.2010)

Kid Chocolate, another new Rhode Island School of Design export up from Providence, will be sharing a bill with fellow Foundwaves Weekly Pick, Natives on Monday at Great Scott. Balloons might all lose their helium eventually, but until they do…

Roz Raskin and The Ricecakes: Show Preview (Middle East Upstairs: 03.21.2010)

Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes, one of this week’s Foundwaves Weekly Picks, will be headlining a show at the Middle East Upstairs tonight. Although on the surface Roz Raskin leads a piano trio, she distinguishes the band by fronting it with the warm organic sounds of a Fender Rhodes electric piano. With bell-like melodic lines and complex chordal washes, her keyboard creates a rich landscape…

Natives: Show Preview (Great Scott: 03.22.2010)

In compiling this week’s Foundwaves Weekly Pick, we stumbled onto a Myspace page less than a month and a half old for Natives. This duo (or trio if the other gentleman in their press photo is a contributing member) will be joined by another Foundwaves Weekly Pick and fellow Providence band Kid Chocolate at Great Scott on Monday…

Concert Preview: The Luxury – Great Scott – Wed. Mar 17, 2010

The Luxury along with fellow Foundwaves Weekly Picks, The Organ Beats and Midatlantic, will be toasting St. Patrick at Great Scott on Wednesday. Expect stadium-sized anthems from singer Jason Dunn and crew. Fueled by a thumping rhythm section and searing lead guitar, The Luxury’s melodies soar over the band’s expansive arrangements. Boston might be on the wrong side of the Atlantic, but when The Luxury hit the stage they bring us a little closer…

Autumn Armor: Show Preview (Church: 03.16.2010)

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Echo Kings, Autumn Armor, and New Hong Kong
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Don’t miss Autumn Armor one of this week’s Foundwaves Weekly Picks. Autumn Armor’s songs utilize a broad palette of genres and styles, but they seem to be on track towards defining a unique raw core sound, as highlighted on [...]

Plumerai and The Brother Kite at the Middle East on Monday, March 15 – Split 7″ and CD Giveaway!

Plumerai and The Brother Kite will be celebrating the release of a limited edition split 7″ on Clairecords on Monday at the Middle East Upstairs.  They will joined by another of the Foundwaves Weekly Picks, LA’s Letting Up Despite Great Faults, making for quite a stacked bill for a Monday night.
Plumerai’s epic single “Strike” [...]