Lullaby of Forest Hills…11PM
Posted by Rick Berlin on Monday, June 22, 2015
The current phase of noisy night work on the Casey Overpass is scheduled to be finished on Thursday.
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Rick Berlin “I hate everything but you” from Warren Farm Films on Vimeo.
JP rocker Rick Berlin has influenced a lot of other musicians. In Tuesday’s Herald, Amanda Palmer wrote a mash note to hearing Berlin’s “I Hate Everything But You.”
The 2014 edition of the Jamaica Plain Music Festival is in the books. Residents thronged Pinebank Field despite high temps of 91 and a fast-moving storm that caused organizers to shut down the festival slightly early. The last two acts weren’t able to perform.
Back in the 1980s, when Boston bands like Aerosmith, The Cars and J. Geils were topping the charts nationally, a flourishing ecosystem of not-quite-so-famous groups were struggling farther down the pyramid.
“There were another 2,000 bands trying to claw their way up the food chain,” said musician and author Terry Kitchen, whose new book and CD, “Next Big Thing,” is set in that world.
Jamaica Plain is probably too many things to too many people to have one theme song. But “I Love My Street” by Rick Berlin and the Nickel and Dime Band comes as close as I’ve heard.