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A weekly preview/review of the best live music happening around Boston. Also home to The Flophouse Sessions- bands from Boston and beyond play stripped-down semi-acoustic sets in the comforts of our living room!

Keep it live. Keep it local. Keep it Boston.

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A weekly preview/review of the best live music happening around Boston. Also home to The Flophouse Sessions- bands from Boston and beyond play stripped-down semi-acoustic sets in the comforts of our living room!

Keep it live. Keep it local. Keep it Boston.

    FhS #279: Naked Gods

    FhS #279: Naked Gods

    Naked Gods are hands down our favorite band from the bustling Asheville, NC scene. They stopped by for the second time a damn year and a half ago just as their latest album, No Jams, was coming out. The album itself is a beautiful exercise in restraint for the boys- their live shows are one of the most dynamic and moving experiences you’ll have. They let it loose for us. This one is a definite not-to-be-missed!

    nakedgods.com



    Download individual tracks here, or stream the whole thing, with attic chatter:

    • 22 min
    FhS 278: Adam Schatz from Landlady

    FhS 278: Adam Schatz from Landlady

    Landlady is the baby of New Yorker and multi-instrumentalist Adam Schatz. You may know him as the saxophonist in the Teenage Prayers (though he wasn’t around when they came in), but he also plays keyboards, guitar, and whatever other instruments he needs to in order to translate his songs from their usual 6-piece band arrangement down to one-man-band territory. The result is a spacey, trippy, jazzy loop-based take on the full-band performance. Prepare to have his improvisations mess with your brain a bit, and his cover songs to go somewhere the originals never did.

    He’ll be playing solo (with a guest) this Wednesday at TT the Bear’s.

    Adam’s Web Site. Landlady on Facebook, Bandcamp

    Download individual tracks here, or stream the whole thing (with attic chatter).

    • 38 min
    Fhs 277: Food Will Win The War

    Fhs 277: Food Will Win The War

    No, it’s not a belated April Fools joke. We have some new sessions!

    Brooklyn’s Food Will Win The War came in almost a year ago, and they are far too sweet to be from Brooklyn. They’ll be playing at the Loft in Somerville this Saturday!

    FWWTW’s web site

    Download individual tracks here, or stream the whole thing.

    • 42 min
    FhS 276: Banditas

    FhS 276: Banditas

    The very first band to play in the new “studio” (our attic) was Boston’s own Banditas. It was a sweltering July day, and the attic can get unbearably hot. Luckily, Banditas have the sweltering hot souls of the American Southwest, and Hayley even showed up in a bikini to prove that you just can’t keep these gals down.

    Download individual tracks here, or stream the whole thing, complete with borderline filthy studio banter:

    • 30 min
    FhS 275: Quiet Loudly

    FhS 275: Quiet Loudly

    We are happy to announce that our move from living room to attic (and Somerville to Boston!) was a resounding success. To mix things up a bit, we’re going to be using all new fancy graphics for Flophouse Sessions going forward – they almost look like real albums, don’t they?

    Doing the honors to kick off this new chapter at BiB is Brooklyn’s own Quiet Loudly. They call themselves “soul-gaze”, and we couldn’t put it better ourselves. But why are we even trying to explain it. Give it a listen.

    Download individual tracks here, or stream the whole session, silly studio banter included:

    • 37 min
    BiB 79 – My Pinterest Board of Disgusting Food

    BiB 79 – My Pinterest Board of Disgusting Food

    Back again we are! Yoda we speak like!

    Yep, we’re giving it another shot – let’s see if we can keep it up. This week’s (year’s?) show features Robbers on High Street, I Have Ears, Future Carnivores, Eldridge Rodriguez, Babydriver, Shake the Baron, The New Highway Hymnal, Dan Baker, Marc Pinansky, Shelterbelt, Guillermo Sexo, Marconi, Spirit Kid, and Oranjuly.

    • 1 hr 5 min

Customer Reviews

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3 Ratings

3 Ratings

maudlin87 ,

Amazing Podcast, Action Painters session was great.

This podcast has consistently great performances from local Boston and touring bands. They have totally unknown bands and bands you've heard of, but the vibe is always really good and rarely boring. I just listened to Action Painters in the most recent one, was one of their best yet. It's cool because they sounded quite different than they normally do (stripped down and mellow) but the songs were just as good.

Seth1977 ,

BEST Podcast in Boston

If you live in/near Boston, and love great music, this is the show you need to listen to every week. Not only do they do your show-shopping for you, recommending the best live music to see every week, but they play you a full song from the bands playing to let you hear if it's something you'll actually like.
Add the FLOPHOUSE Recordings, live, semi-acoustic sets played in their living room (no joke) and live recordings of local shows, and you've made yourself an instant insider in the Boston music world.

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