Kingsley Flood, Mean Creek in New York

Kingsley Flood, Mean Creek

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Kingsley Flood

Despite relying on acoustic guitars, violins and horns, Kingsley Flood draws more from the Clash than the Band. The first song on the six-piece Boston band's latest EP Colder Still ("I Don't Wanna Go Home") was an NPR Song of the Day (its video premiered on Paste's website), the Boston Globe calling it "a doozy, roaring out of the speakers like a jingle-jangle summer jam from the late '80s." AOL Spinner premiered the song "Mannequin Man," saying “Kingsley Flood play salt-of-the-earth type of music that doesn’t strive for authenticity – it claims it.” The song recently made Esquire Magazine's "Future of American Music" playlist. Called "the best live band in Boston" by the Boston Herald, the band won New Artist of the Year at the 2010 Boston Music Awards and Best Roots Act in the 2010 and 2011 Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll. The music blog Twangville captures the feeling of the rowdy live shows, calling the band "a potent mix of gypsy folk and roadhouse rock, a raucous affair both live and on record."

Mean Creek

Mean Creek is a rock band based in Boston, Massachusetts. An organic substance comprised of four friends who were always meant to create music together. A group of artists who have evolved from a past of desperation to a whole new future. Currently stepping from the lime-light of a wildly successful beginning into the blissful solace of a future faced with determination. Mean Creek delves into their newest musical project with the assurance and conviction that comes from knowing their legitimate place in the world. Expect combustion with the 2012 full-length release. AOL Spinner: "Alternating boy-girl vocalists Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian conjure a Pixies-like dual frontperson mystique and they rock equally as hard as their Beantown alma mater." Paste Magazine: "Mean Creek is not merely a great Boston Band; they're a really great band period. Everyone outside the 617 should be warned Boston has birthed it's next prodigious band. Be prepared."

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