Once again I found myself sitting in a bar on a Friday night, this time embibing on the drink de jur for the night, Stoli O and Tonic. This wasn’t my normal akaRaff night of boozin and lollygagging, but a private function brought me to a place from my early years called the Wonder Bar […]

In an effort to quench our insatiable, almost nerotic, thurst for spreading the word about akaRaff.com, we have just added another way for you to enjoy us any time of the day. Introducing akaRaff On The Go. Now anyone with a WAP enabled phone or PDA can keep up with our useless banter […]

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Boston Concert List For October:
10/1 Aqualung, Tracy Bonham - Paradise
10/2 Tegan And Sara - Lupo’s
10/3 Built To Spill - Avalon
10/3,10/4 U2 - TD BankNorth Garden
10/4 Bob Mould Band - Paradise
10/5 Raveonettes - Axis
10/6 The Perceptionists, Lyrics Born - Paradise
10/7 Social Distortion - Palladium
10/7 Judas Priest, Anthrax - Tsongas Arena
10/8 David Gray - Agganis Arena
10/9 Talib […]

The Samples, a classic Rock Folk group, are one of those bands that I really liked in college with the release of their first album, “Samples” but soon grew distant as I got older and their music remained a bit unchanged for my liking. But last night, 12 years later, I had a chance to […]

Damage from Rita .
Reply to: anon-100381033@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-09-27, 4:31PM CDT
Attached is a photo illustrating the damage caused to my friend’s home
in Houston from the hurricane Rita that passed through on Friday night.
It really makes you cherish what you have, and reminds us not to take
things too much for granted.

* no — it’s […]

Though not exactly a local Boston artist, but fellow New Englander, Ray Lamontagne is an alternative-sort of-folk singer, who has been described as a modern day raspy-voiced version of Van Morrison or Tim Buckley. His debut album “Trouble” was one of the best releases of 2004, and topped many critics best album of the […]

I found myself in a club on Friday night called The Gypsy Bar (formerly Pravda 116). Mind you, this is not your normal akaRaff establishment, but a roaming Birthday posse that I was grazing with chose this joint in search of greener pastures.
As you can see from the picture and their website, this place […]

Of all the methods of music distribution that the internet has brought us, Magnatune (an online independent label out of the UK) has a potential lasting one. Magnatune limits itself to seven genres, rock, punk, new age, world, jazz/blues, classical, and electronica, and signs approx 5-10 new artists a month out of approx 400 submissions. […]

One of the toughest things about finding new music on the web, is actually listening to the music. There are many times that I am on a record label’s website and find a page full of MP3 links and have to spend my time clicking on them one by one in order to listen. This […]