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Gary Santarella and Roger Kimball are veterans of the New England area music scene, and on Saturday, May 21 they brought their five piece ensemble to the Village Tavern in Slame, where they usually perform as a duo every Saturday from 4 – 7 pm.    Playing their dizzying array of covers – Santarella goes from the Rolling Stones to...

The English language is an interesting thing. It’s full of contradicting terms, colloquialisms, and misnomers that confuse and mislead. The name “tremolo bar”, for example. The word “tremolo” refers to a fluctuation in volume, but a tremolo bar alters pitch. It should therefore technically be called avibrato bar, and yet it remains almost universally known as a tremolo bar. Another interesting...

The DiMarzio Injector neck pickup is a great option if you want to keep one foot in a modern vibe, one foot in a classic vibe, and present it in a noiseless wrapper with a nice bow on top. While there are a whole lot of noiseless (i.e., hum-canceling) options out there for single coil pickups, it can be easy...

X-Men: Apocalypse is liable to thrill and offend audiences in equally extreme measure. I mean, come on, just consider the plot: the oldest mutant arises from his millennia-long sleep after being betrayed in ancient Egypt, and then he works to enact his plan to conquer humankind and establish mutants in their rightful place atop the new world order. The...

Boston Calling has announced big updates to its growing music festival. Starting this year, Boston Calling will be sticking to an annual, Memorial Day Weekend run, putting an end to its September show. This weekends show will also be the last ever to be held on Government Center. Next year’s festival will be located in Allston at Harvard’s Athletic Complex...

Video Game Roundtable Episode 258: Paul’s Return Part 1 Paul returns to the show to drown his sorrows in the discontinuation of a game series he loved, and the podcast ran so long it has to be split into two parts. The first half of this podcast includes the following news items: Why Disney Infinity 4.0 was shut down and Microsoft...

One of the most striking things about Green Room – probably not THE most striking, but perhaps the most unusually striking – is the way in which people have weird reactions to dangerous situations. The premise of this film (penniless punk band is held captive after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi bar) would seem to lend itself to...

Emerging out of the alternative rock scene like a bat out of hell, North Carolinian, female-fronted band Eyes Eat Suns’ latest EP titled ALIVE is a musical force to be reckoned with. The album opens up with it’s self-titled track chronicling the ever-existing struggle to fit in with the pressures of our ever changing society all while keeping a...

When you think about the variety and styles of Les Paul players over the years, it is mind blowing. Of course, we have to start with the man Les Paul himself. The guitar was later the bread and butter guitar for Freddie King, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Joe Walsh. When you add Joe Perry, Randy Rhoades...

Video Game Roundtable Episode 257: Awaiting Apocalypse. The gang discusses the just-released Captain America: Civil War as well as mention the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse film, but they also do get into this week's news, which is heavy on the Nintendo side. The news includes: Nintendo NX cartridge rumors abound, Fallout 4 Xbox One mods enter beta after May 19, Zelda...