Tag Archives: 2008 in Boston

Acquiring their name from an instrumental cut on David Bowie’s Low, and focusing on big, anthemic, prog-tinged orchestral indie rock and roll in the vein of artists like Muse as well as the Mars Volta, Boston’s Art Decade created in 2008 round the talents of Berklee Classes of Music grad …

Boston, Massachusetts-based Interest Pit began being a one-man task of vocalist and songwriter Michael Angelakos to make a Valentine’s Day present for his partner. The present, an EP entitled Chunk of Modification, soon finished up in the hands of close friends and acquaintances, who had been enthralled with the task. …

Wayne Wadhams, founding person in the ’60s pop group the Fifth Property, was created on November 12, 1946, in Stamford, CT. He went to Stamford public colleges and later on Dartmouth University, graduating in June of 1969. Originally course of 1968, Wadhams became popular a 12 months plus to tour …

Robert Threat didn’t even sing on his biggest strike. In 1982, Cyndi Lauper protected Hazard’s “Young ladies Just Want Fun,” a monitor that he originally composed and documented on a 1979 demonstration. Hazard’s edition was hardly ever released. Hazard’s follow-up, the 1981 brand-new wave traditional “Escalator of Lifestyle,” became a …

Inspired by disco, funk, and brand-new jack golf swing, Boston’s Bad Rabbits produced in the ashes of Eclectic Collective, a live-oriented ten-piece that sometimes performed as Slick Rick’s backup group. After playing jointly for five years, vocalist Dua Boayke, guitarists Santi Araujo and Salim Akram, bassist Graham Masser, and drummer …

Boston’s Gentlemen Hall help to make lighthearted and catchy dance-oriented indie pop. Created in 2008 as the users were attending university, Gentlemen Hall focuses on lead vocalist/guitarist Gavin Merlot, keyboardist Bradford Alderman, vocalist/guitarist Cobi Mike, bassist Rory Provided, drummer Phil Boucher, and flutist Seth Hachen. In the beginning, Gentlemen Hall …

While students at Harvard University, singer/songwriter David Wax nurtured his burgeoning desire for Mexican folk music by firmly taking frequent trips south from the border to help expand his musical research. After meeting vocalist and fiddler Suz Slezak back Cambridge, Polish fused his Mexican-inspired tunes with Slezak’s Appalachian and Irish …