Author: tina

Queerpalooza featured this week on HOMOGROUND

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Queerpalooza will be featured on Homoground’s podcast this week! Tune in Thursday May 12 at 9pm to Out Impact Radio to listen Live. It will be available on Homoground and on itunes shortly after.

There will be an interview with QWIMB’s founder Tina Lafleur and music by Queerpalooza performers Gunpowder Gelatine, Michelle Barrett, and Happy Little Clouds.

Check it out! Also, any local or national queer bands reading this? Submit your songs to Homoground and help them create their nationwide network of queer artists.

Spotlight on a Local Band: Brief Awakening

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Brief Awakening is an all female original alternative rock trio featuring: piano, djembe, drums, acoustic guitar, and bass. In September 2008, Brief Awakening danced into the Boston music scene playing numerous clubs and events such as The Middle East, The Midway, and Wake up the Earth Festival. With unique instrumentation and dual-lead female vocals rich with harmony; Brief Awakening’s sound has been compared to Belle and Sebastian, Fiona Apple and many things in between. Lyrical subjects range from to poetically personal to the fight for equality and justice for all people. Since 2009, Brief Awakening has been organizing a seasonal event called Goddess Fest which brings together musicians, poets, and artists to perform and celebrate women in the arts.  (write up courtesy of Kat Arrants)

PRESS: “[Brief Awakening’s Goddess Fest] is lasting proof that all you need to make an evening is some great people in a great space, playing great music.” J. Patrick Brown – The Weekly Dig
“Brief Awakening’s songs are energetic, positive, and driven with substantial depth behind each note and chord.” Emily Smith – The Noise

For other  upcoming shows and news check out their Facebook page HERE

To listen to some songs, check out their ReverbNation page HERE

Check out this video of Brief Awakening performing at Big Night Out at the Burren in Somerville, MA on 5/16/11

Our Interview With Out Impact Radio

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Tina, founder of QWIMB, was featured on episode three of Executing the Vision on Out Impact Radio. Listen to Bambi Weavil, founder of Out Impact, interview Tina about the project’s roots and directions. Listen Here

Out Impact Radio is an awsome place to find info on music, entertainment, pets, healthy living, LGBT lives, etc. Check it out.

Spectra Events Has Cool Stuff Coming Up

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Thursday May 5, 2011

Spectra Events’ THE BASEMENT Live Music Series is proud to host London Bridgez, national touring spoken-word artist, for a special preview of her summer tour, featuring a LIVE Funk Band and roster of talented local artists.

The writer and performer London Bridgez pushes the expectations of spoken word. “London” is her name. “Bridgez” represents what she does. She builds bridges between poetry and music. London couples her captivating poetry delivery with a live band experience (poetry vocals +keys+ sax+ guitar and drums). London is a self proclaimed Afro Punk Poet & Soul Word Artist.

London Bridgez+Spoken word+Music= Live Art Experience

Opening for London Bridgez is local brownboi hiphop MC, Micah Domingo!

Micah – Brown Boi MC

As an emcee hailing from Boston, Micah attempts to capture raw emotions through lyrics that cut the skin and peel back all the layers, to reveal the blood and guts of what it means to be human. As a transman, he brings his struggle into the hip hop arena, displaying a unique perspective on everything from infatuation, to political revolution.

Visit his Myspace page HERE

Buy your tickets HERE

  • Doors open at 7:00PM | Show begins at 8PM
  • Featuring London Bridgez Funk Band, Micah Domingo, and others
  • This show is for everyone ages 19+
  • Tickets are $12 Advances / $15 at the Door
  • Group discounts available! Contact Spectra Events for more info

This Description from Event Brite

Also upcoming is:

May 25

Renaissance: Women in Jazz, Funk, Soul, and RnB 90s Dance Party

at Church in Boston

Buy tickets HERE

Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love, and Death of a Punk Goddess

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The Boston LGBT Film Fest is showing a great documentary on the life of Marian Anderson. You may not recognize her by name, but her story is tragic, inspiring, and familiar. It will be playing at the Brattle Theater on May 12 at 9pm. Be sure to buy your tickets.

Here is the description of the film from The Boston LGBT Film Fest

An intense look at the life of a punk rock star who died before her time. If you were part of any punk scene in the early nineties, be in in SF, Boston, or Providence, you knew someone like Marian Anderson: driven, talented, sexy, and troubled. Please join us for this astounding documentary that shines a light on a musician who burned bright but all too briefly. Singer, model, dominatrix, prostitute, bisexual, drug addict, insane, intense, beautiful, loyal, genuine, selfless, tough, sweet, violent–all words used to describe Marian Anderson. Last Fast Ride–The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess, is a compelling portrait of a tragic life. Marian Anderson, beautiful, talented and loved, was plagued by sexual abuse, mental illness and self-destruction. Narrated by punk legend and actor Henry Rollins, the film covers Marian’s idyllic youth, her tormented adolescence and dangerous adult life. (Description courtesy of Slamdance Film Festival.)

For more info go HERE.

Linda Perry’s Deep Dark Robot Comes to Boston

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Linda Perry and Tony Tornay’s Deep Dark Robot played Great Scott in Boston on Tuesday 3/29. The band is certainly a departure from Perry’s early work with 4 Non-Blondes (thank God). Their sound is pretty straight up rock n’ roll, rather similar to the UK’s Little Fish or Juliette and the Licks. The show was high energy despite Perry’s confession that she had just got up from a nap before playing. Her stage presence is unmatchable and Tornay (also of Fatso Jetson) tore it up on drums. Both perfomers greeted the eager crowd after the show in a display of humble appreciation for their fans. The verdict: go to deepdarkrobot.com and find out where to see them next. In the meantime, buy the record. You won’t hear another like it anytime soon.