:: Railroad Earth ::

:: Ogden :: Theater :: June 13 and 14 ::

By Dustin Huth

Every place on the face of the planet has its own character. Some are powerful and impressive and people travel from all over to see them and spend time in them and take pictures to show that they’ve been to them. Other places have a character that is more subtle and intimate, but equally beautiful. Places like that don’t get traveled to much. They just go on being there quietly, lending a feeling of home to the few who happen upon them.

In the woods of rural New Jersey along the Appalachian Trail, there is a place with just such a sense of home. It is the 300-year-old colonial farmhouse of Railroad Earth’s Todd Sheaffer, and it is where the band’s fifth album, Amen Corner, was recorded.

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:: BoomBox :: Fox Theatre :: April 24 ::

:: Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom :: April 25 ::

:: Hodi’s Half Note :: April 26 ::

By Dustin Huth

Every so often a band will come onto the scene with a new and completely original sound that somehow, at the same time, feels like it has always existed. BoomBox are just such a band, and their sound is definitely that kind of a sound: a stripped-down and elemental incarnation of psychedelic funk rock, with well-balanced and unassuming vocals that deliver abstract imagery and storylines at an unhurried pace, paying little attention to things like clocks on walls or conventional song structures.

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