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Three piece from outside Boston, formed in 2008. Danny and Noelle are siblings who started making music as preteens and were tour veterans before they were able to buy cigarettes. Recently a line up change occurred and they quickly chose to call upon an old friend. Mikey is a solid addition to the sibling duo. He generally plays guitar in hardcore bands but gratefully accepted the invite into stoner pop county.

Noelle was in Damone, a Boston rock band who signed to RCA then Island records. They made it to Asia and Europe several times and across the US innumerable times with bands such as Sum 41, The All American Rejects, Butch Walker, Buck Cherry, The Wild Hearts, Valient Thorr, The Ataris, Less Than Jake, etc. She has also shared the stage with Bon Jovi at The Boston Garden and has rocked Iron Maiden’s Donnington Festival.

The 9 track album ‘Sleep When We Are Dead’ was recorded in the summer 2009 in a small studio outside of Houston TX over the course of 3 weeks. The songs convey strength and determination. They are heartfelt pop jams with colorful imagery and a keen sense of wonder. The drums are a solid platform laid out to support crunchy guitars, singing solos, catchy melodies and a voice that belts out epic choruses.

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Dubbed “the poet laureate of the lovelorn”, Ad Frank follows a long tradition of brooding, hyper-literate curmudgeons that includes Leonard Cohen, Lloyd Cole and Roddy Frame. His wry, self-deprecating lyrics tell familiar tales of a life and loves that did not go as planned. Stopping just short of morose, Ad offsets his darker side with wry musings like, “Is it too late to be good, or is the answer obvious? The best of what was left went to a stripper in Providence.”

Together with his band, 70s-influenced powerhouse The Fast Easy Women, Ad and company deliver a sound that evokes late glam and early new wave. Now in his third decade as a songwriter and performer, Ad has shared bills with his idol, John Cale, jazz legend Mose Allison, Vic Chestnutt, American Music Club, and The Bravery. His music has been featured on “One Life to Live” and NPR’s Marketplace. Ad has performed live and on record with The Dresden Dolls, the Willard Grant Conspiracy, and Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys.

A critic’s favorite, his 2005 album, The World’s Best Ex-Boyfriend, “bursts with love-lorn desperation” according to the Boston Globe. The Weekly Dig declared its flagship anthem, “Lucky,” to be “an introspective crooner, a ballad just this side of stadium-sized, just dripping with heart and brimming with clever, poignant turns of phrase.”

Ad’s fifth and latest album, “Your Secrets Are Mine Now,” was completed in late 2008 and is due out on Archenemy Records (Freezepop, The Elevator Drops) on November 3. This album examines the lifecycle of longing, love, betrayal and
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The Stuart Highlanders Grade 2 Band is led by Pipe Major Adam Holdaway, Pipe Sergeant Kevin Wisehart and Drum Sergeant Scott Armit. The band is coming off its most successful competition season in grade 3 in 2009, winning second place at Maxville, first place in every US based contest, and sweeping every event of the 2009 Bethlehem Celtic Classic. At the conclusion of the 2009 season, the band was upgraded
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“We are your doom. We are intergalactic alien overlords. We are beings of pure destruction. We have traveled forward in time from 1971 to take over your planet with our transmissions of face melting rock. We are your new gods. We are Planetoid”

I had a my first sighting of these Planetoid at Great Scots and I’ve been impressed ever since. Their stage presence is very powerful. I think Planetoid is doing the right thing to get their name out there. Such as a lot of other great bands out of Boston I hope they can bridge the gap from locally known to nationally known.

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If this is working I’m actually updating my website and all my networks from The Charlies River

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About :  GUILLERMO SEXO: Reuben Bettsak    Noell Dorsey    Mark Fede    Album: Magic Lanterns-2008    Recorded/Engineered by: Justin Pizzoferrato at Bank Row    Mixed by Justin Pizzoferrato at Woolly Mammoth    Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Guillermo Sexo is finished with their new album, “Magic Lanterns.” This 13 song, 59 minute long album is “haunting, powerful, and is filled with psych-tinged rock, noisy anthems, and beautiful songs. This album is a headphones masterpiece.. Noell´s powerful, and unique vocals, and intense lyrics, mixed with the band´s varied, and outstanding songwriting focus, make the songs on this album quite memorable. The catchy, dark rock of the last album (Oh Wow-2006) is still heard within some of the songs on Magic Lanterns, but there is more “letting loose, more freakout, and more variety, and darkness. The band recorded this album with Justin Pizzoferatto at his new Bank Row studio, in Greenfield, MA. Guillermo Sexo is already planning two tours, and Noell Dorsey´s incredible range, and and keyboard playing sounding of loud guitars will be heard! Mix that with Reuben´s psych guitar/vocals, and massive array songs, and Mark Fede´s flowing, merciless beats, and you´ve got Magic music.

PRESS: Of all the various band names that get tossed around the local music scene, “Guillermo Sexo” is arguably one of the more fun ones to say. Their vibrant sound, in the line of rhythm-heavy psychedelia, slinks sinuously around on the floor and then suddenly cracks like a Day-Glo
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Planetoid’s mission: to enslave the human race with our transmissions of face-melting rock. In the wake of an intergalactic war, the likes of which this universe has never seen, we have been cast backwards in time from the year 3032. Marooned on this accursed planet known as Earth, we have taken on the guise of the most highly respected and influential force this world has ever known: That of a rock & roll band.

Bludgeoning the drums with mechanical fury is Admiral Time: A cybernetic organism so technologically advanced he is able to bend the very fabric of the universe by force of will alone. Incinerating the electric guitar is
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It seems as though the city of Boston has produced a new champion for America to keep its’ watchful eyes (and ears) upon. The Doctors of Flight aren’t MD’s – they’re MC’s – and they might be the sound you and your friends have been waiting for. Their music is fresh, ranging, and fundamentally tight enough to dominate a new playing surface for many Bostonian’s – the music industry.

Their original flavor lightens up the Boston music scene with raw, genuine, and *to the point* rhymes that your cousin up North can’t wait to hear. The band is the proud founder of an entirely new musical genre that most of us have been waiting for. With smooth backup vocal enforcement, those not familiar with the band formerly known as Foggy depot must imagine a sound similar to what “power soul” could sound like paired with snug rap lyrics executed over pumping percussion and elite riffs – so leave the air guitar at home. They are even known to jump into a jam along the way. They are The Doctors of Flight and they’re that good.

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The Few : “Overall, with the dynamic lyrics, great guitar work and just great groove feeling you get when listening to it makes it hard to put this CD away. if you can find it and you could really dig some groove rock right about now, I would give you the go ahead and pick it up.”
-Local Bands of RI review

“The instrumental blend is interesting, The Few try to bring the funk with just guitar, keyboard and drums.” .. “the keyboard player is certainly doing a great job with the left hand” …”The dual female/male lead vocal is like having vanilla and chocolate soft serve in the same funky cone.”
-The Noise

“With their positive vibe and funky groove, their innovative sound comes from an eclectic mix of classic rock, reggae and motown, infused with small bursts of
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“The Big Disappointments. To Be Destroyed. Ego. Inhibitions. Pretense. Be Destroyed. Nobody deals this impressionistic nightmare slurry like them. There may be a band on the same bill that’s selling the same dream, but The Big Disappointments are a modern haiku that reveals it’s truth amidst the noise of the evening, noise of their own instruments, and that noise proclaims all music to be a false drama. You stay, you see the future that rock will never have been. Stolen from the gods, or the humble carriers of the flame they stoked, Eric and company….” -

“Some relaxed dancers, possessed, swinging, twist and shoot, between the tumulus of the bodies, the fallow heaps, the sculpted-insects-skulls
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