Results tagged “latinjazz”

It's a good week to take the whole week off. Well, is there such a thing as a bad week to take off? Grilled meats will be invading your pores for the first time in such a heavy dose since Memorial Day, which was only about a month ago. In addition to this weeks picks for some of the great shows creeping up on us in Boston we'd like to point you over to a little fifty state musical roundup on the internets. Trees lounge has gotten 23 states done in the 50 state project. Celebrate your independence my checking out some Massachusetts themed tunes (some of them are pretty borderline on the whole "theme" but we'll cut him some slack for finding 60 songs with MP3s to download) more ›

All those indie and punk shows getting you a little too worked up? We thought so. Take a deep breath, remove the suspenders and striped socks. Put on your dancing shoes and listen to some poetry. But it’s the weekend you say, and you’re not up for some tame literary adventure? You want something with a little beat? Revive your soul at the Center for Latino Arts' Soul Revival on Saturday night. One of Bostonist’s favorite live action poets, Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, will be there. She’s been around the slam scene in Boston for a number of years and has been pondering her continued participation on the Boston area Slam Team (yeah, Bostonist didn’t really know there was a regional team either). If HBO is your only feed for culture you may have seen Iyeoka on Def Poetry Jam. more ›