Rob Azevedo

Baza ready to take a bite out of Memphis as competitors in the 34th International Blues Challenge

Thursday, January 4, 2018 Rob Azevedo 0

NH’s swashbuckling bluesmen, collectively named Baza, are Memphis bound, where they will compete at the 34th International Blues Challenge. READ MORE

2017 in the rearview: A year of outstanding homegrown music

Thursday, December 21, 2017 Rob Azevedo 0

I got to thinking behind my desk about all the musical talent I’ve seen this past year – at the radio stations, in taverns, at New England College. I mean, it was a preposterous amount of goodness, both in original and cover format, bestowed upon those that chose to indulge, which, I did with an unflinching zeal. READ MORE

Meet Craig Driggers, everything I was hoping for in a rock’n’roll radio DJ

Thursday, December 14, 2017 Rob Azevedo 0

I have a radio show, but I don’t know squat about the radio business. I know even less about the many people who work in the industry throughout the state. Even at WKXL in Concord READ MORE

Another musical conquest, this time in Nashville for a close encounter with Colter Wall

Wednesday, December 6, 2017 Rob Azevedo 0

But I was also going to Nashville to feed my own needs, no lie. I was on a mission to witness the brilliance of my latest obsession: a country music singer/songwriter named Colter Wall. READ MORE

Stairway To Heaven

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Rob Azevedo 0

This place was my library, my Sistine Chapel, my own personal time machine that would transport me from out of the gloomy tensions within my own life and catapult me into a world of cool. READ MORE

SNOB FilmFest 2017: Q&A with man behind ‘Almost Boss’

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Rob Azevedo 0

The film studies the “The B Street Band,” a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band cover band that’s been toasting the Jersey Devil’s body of work for 40 years. READ MORE

Asking the tough (musical) questions of candidate Joyce Craig

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Rob Azevedo 0

Did you know Joyce Craig donated the first piano to the Keys to the City public piano program? Neither did I. READ MORE

Running on Petty fumes, and reveling in my higher (music) power

Thursday, October 26, 2017 Rob Azevedo 0

Without nights like Saturday, I’d swear the world was burning. The negativity is relentless most days, between the feeds and the tweets and the garbage on the airwaves. But the world is far from burning, because when we take our faces out of our phones and turn ourselves over to a higher power – in this case, music – we free ourselves of wasted time. READ MORE

Curlies Comedy Club: Full-time laughs from veteran comic Jay Grove

Thursday, October 12, 2017 Rob Azevedo 0

No, it’s not a Chinese Restaurant. READ MORE

Lost in a world of sorrow this week – Las Vegas and Tom Petty – my soul says ‘enough is enough’

Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Rob Azevedo 0

It’s getting harder, it seems, each week, to replenish my sympathies, though. Every ten days or so, I’m out in the front yard raising the American flag back up from half mast after a period of mourning. Then, a couple weeks later, there I am again, barefooted, dropping the stars and stripes to middle pole. READ MORE

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