FEATURED MUSIC Zach Deputy Is A Solo Dynamo Written by Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo Unless you’re looking directly at Zach Deputy as he builds a tower of grooves, it’s impossible to believe he’s the only one on stage. At one point in his show, he might introduce a trumpet player, then no … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Film Review Arrival (PG-13) Written by Amy Diaz (adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Screenshot of The Girl on the Train Amy Adams is a linguist asked to help communicate with a group of aliens who have appeared on Earth in Arrival, a chilly but slyly fun and emotional sci-fi. Aliens arrive on Earth … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Photographer Adds Depth to DSO Show Written by Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo Every Dark Star Orchestra concert is a trip in the wayback machine, as the band recreates a Grateful Dead show, playing a complete setlist song by song. DSO’s appearance at Concord’s Capitol Center Nov. 22 offers even more for fans … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Film Review Dr. Strange (PG-13) Written by Amy Diaz (adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Screenshot of Dr. Strange Benedict Cumberbatch gets the full superhero treatment — powers, cape and a couple of villains — in Doctor Strange, an exploration of yet another part of the Marvel cinematic universe. In what feels like a pretty meta discussion of … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Three Band Show on Local Promoter’s Birthday Written by Michael Witthaus (music@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo After the Kinks recorded “You Really Got Me” in the summer of 1964, producers insisted on polishing up the song, an act that infuriated the band’s front man and songwriter, Ray Davies. He wanted a sound that evoked the … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM SNOB Film Festival Undergoes Rebranding & Expansion Written by Kelly Sennott (ksennott@hippopress.com) Images: Courtesy Photo The annual November film festival at Red River Theatres is getting rebranded. For the past 15 years, it’s been known as the SNOB (Somewhat North of Boston) Film Festival, but starting in 2016, organizers are calling … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Negative Gemini & More Written by Eric Saeger (news@hippopress.com) Images: Album Art Negative Gemini, Body Work (100% Electronica Records) Second album from Lindsey French, who hatted out for Brooklyn after discovering that, as with 99 percent of the rest of the country, her native Richmond, Virginia, wasn’t capable of supporting an electronic scene. Her earliest artistic … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Weekly Film Review: Keeping Up With The Joneses (PG-13) Written by Amy Diaz (adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Screenshot of Keeping Up With The Joneses A suburban couple learns their new neighbors are not what they seem in Keeping Up with the Joneses, a weak-sauce comedy. Or actually, Tim (Jon Hamm) and Natalie Jones … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Kishi Bashi & More Written by Eric Saeger (news@hippopress.com) Images: Album Art Kishi Bashi, Sonderlust (Joyful Noise Recordings) The greatest gift a recording artist can give is making an album after they’ve loved and lost, because it usually kicks ass. There are exceptions, of course, and we went over one of those the … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Film Review The Accountant (Rated R) Written by Amy Diaz Images: Screenshot of The Accountant A man with near-superhuman mathematical and focusing abilities gets tangled up with the finances of all flavors of sketchy characters in The Accountant, a strange thriller starring Ben Affleck, still in Batman mode. Christian Wolff (Ben … [Read more…]
FEATURED MUSIC Jim Breuer on Standup & Getting Down Written by Michael Witthaus Images: Jim Brewer Courtesy Photo In 2010, Jim Breuer made a special called Clearing the Air. In it, he tried to turn the page on some bits that made him famous, like SNL’s Goat Boy and the stoner in Half Baked, … [Read more…]
FEATURED FILM Film Review The Girl on the Train (R) Written by Amy Diaz (adiaz@hippopress.com) Images: Screenshot of The Girl on the Train Emily Blunt is a woman so lost she’s not sure if she’s seen a murderer or become one in The Girl on the Train, an ultimately kind of lightweight story … [Read more…]