Rob Azevedo

Concord country crooner Will Hatch runs hot and smooth with new release, ‘For You’

Thursday, February 8, 2018 Rob Azevedo 0

He is a multi-instrumentalist, a one-man band, a heavy duty lyricist, with a certain stage presence about him that if you look hard enough you can see ghosts of all eras coming through in his performances. READ MORE

Come see Dusty Gray make some country rock magic at the Red Blazer

Thursday, January 18, 2018 Rob Azevedo 0

A quick chat with the man himself, Dusty Gray from Concord – country singer, midnight brooder, former radio host, one-time Nashville cat, a man sown up with so much talent, so entwined in the community, a blood hungry READ MORE

Asking the musical question: What makes local music tick for you?

Thursday, January 11, 2018 Rob Azevedo 0

Yet, it’s a Monday night, and the Dark Wall of Winter has taken my soul. Lethargy has swallowed me whole, weighing me down by fish hooks from the wrists. So, I decided to blast a post out on Facebook and see what random music fanatics have to say about the current state of music in their lives and around the state. READ MORE

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