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Sam Kininger: Sam Kininger
by Phil DiPietro
Another homegrown winner. For a while, Boston's The Squad and Soulive were engaged in a pleasurable funk war in which there were no losers, only winners ' especially among hometown audiences. Thing was, Sam Kininger played alto for both sides, eventually becoming an “official" member of Soulive and playing an important part in Turn it Out, Doin' Somethin', and Next. Also a member of the Boston collective Lettuce , Kininger is many hundreds of gigs into his evolution, ranging from ...
read moreVarious Artists: Live at Tonic
by Kurt Gottschalk
Back a dozen years ago and more, the Knitting Factory put itself on the national map with a series of self-released live compilation discs. It was not just a good PR move on the part of the club, nor simply a smart way to launch their label. The five Live at the Knitting Factory discs, and various other releases of otherwise unavailable material (before they went the way of the label promo) are essential documents of the downtown scene in ...
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