Boston Music Awards 2007

Killswitch Engage

BMA — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:48:06 +0000

Killswitch Engage is an American metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999 after the disbandment of Overcast and Aftershock. Killswitch Engage’s current lineup consists of vocalist Howard Jones, bassist Mike D’Antonio, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, and drummer Justin Foley. The band’s membership has changed in the decade since its founding as illness, [...]

Martin Sexton – Seeds

BMA — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:31:46 +0000

Sexton grew up the tenth of twelve children in a working class Irish-American family. He acquired his first guitar, a Sears & Roebuck acoustic, at the age of 14 and later played in local rock ‘n roll bands. Looking to find his own voice, he left home when he was 22 years old and began [...]

Lori McKenna – Unglamorous

BMA — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:18:07 +0000

McKenna started writing songs as a teenager, and became a professional songwriter at the age of 27, when she was already married and had three children. She began singing at open mike nights in Boston, notably at the Blackthorn Tavern in nearby Easton, and eventually at her own shows. Working with her then manager Gabriel [...]

KID:NAP:KIN

BMA — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:25:47 +0000

KID:NAP:KIN will change the way you like your rock. Stop listening in vain for your next fix, the pounding odd-meter rhythms and jazz-infused melodies that make your soul turn, come from KID:NAP:KIN. Boston’s Aggro Rock Assault has been making a name for themselves on the scene for three years.. “…best suited for the intellectually-inclined headbanger, [...]

Sarah Borges

BMA — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:25:44 +0000

Sarah Borges is a rock and roll musician from Taunton, Massachusetts, signed to Sugar Hill Records. Her music is described as “walking that fine line between punk and country”. Borges grew up in Taunton, a city south of Boston in the third generation of a Portuguese (hence the hard “g” in her name) family. She [...]

Ryan Montbleau

BMA — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:17:27 +0000

Ryan Montbleau was born and raised in the town of Peabody, Massachusetts. Although he received his first guitar at the age of nine, it was not until attending college at Villanova University that he seriously began to focus on his playing and songwriting. He began singing during the last semester of his senior year, at [...]

Crit Harmon

BMA — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:48:53 +0000

Crit Harmon is a songwriter and music producer, writing music for film and television, producing CD’s for recording artists, and consulting nationally on a variety of music related topics including production, song writing and publishing. In 2007 he was named “Best Producer” at the Boston Music Awards, and in the same year the Martin Sexton [...]

Bang Camaro – Pleasure Pleasure

BMA — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:01:08 +0000

Boston’s Bang Camaro is a four-piece band with a gang of anywhere from six to twenty lead singers at live performances. The Boston Phoenix describes them as “Headbanger’s Ball meets Polyphonic Spree.” The boys mix strut, energy, and arena rock hooks with indie-rock sensibilities, solid musicianship and blazing solos. They have been featured in Rolling [...]