Best Boston Live Music

Galactic, Trombone Shorty and Cyril Neville -- Feb. 25 @ The Paradise
Oh Land – March 7 @ The Paradise
Brad Mehldau - March 12 @ The Sanders Theater
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - March 25 @ HOB -- all ages
Jeff Beck and Imelda May -- March 26 @ The Wang
Cake -- April 22 @ Citi
Kylie Minogue -- April 29 @ Agganis
Yelle – April 29 @ The Royale
Adele -- May 15 @ HOB -- all ages
Brett Dennen -- May 18 @ The Royale -- all ages
Lykke Li -- May 20 @ The Paradise - 18+
Katy Perry - June 18 @ TD Garden
Sade – July 6 @ TD Garden
Rihanna – July 24 @ TD Garden

Set List for Revel without a Pause at KOTO FM on 2/21

Set List
Revel without a Pause
2-21-2011
KOTO FM, Telluride

1. "Sun is Shining" - Bob Marley
2. "It Never Rains" - Jonquil
3. "Moment 4 Life" - Nicki Minaj and Drake
4. "Long Gone" - Nelly, Plies and Chris Brown
5. "S & M" - Rihanna
6. "Slow" - Kylie Minogue
7. "Sweat' - Snoop Dogg
8. "Move that Body" - Nelly, Akon and T-Pain
9. "Pruce Tag" - Jessie J.
10, "Crave You" - Giselle
11. ""Rock the Nation" - Michael Franti
12. "Get Some" - Lykke Li
13. "My Mind's Playing Tricks on Me" - The Ghetto Boys
14. "People Can do the Most Amazing Things" - Kisses
15. "So Come Voz" - Bebel Gilberto and Thievery Corporation
16. "Shine" - John Legend and The Roots
17. "Pumped Up Kicks" - Foster the People
18. "The Ghost Inside" - Broken Bells
19. "California Sunrise"- Dirty Gold
20. "Kiss Off" - Violent Femmes
21. "Weed Card" - Garfunkel and Oates
22. "Ooooh Child" - Five Stairsteps
23. "In Sleep" - Lissie
24. "This Will Be an Everlasting Love" - Natalie Cole

Best Boston Live Music

David Gray - Feb. 21 @ The Wang
Galactic, Trombone Shorty and Cyril Neville -- Feb. 25 @ The Paradise
Brad Mehldau - March 12 @ The Sanders Theater
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - March 25 @ HOB -- all ages
Jeff Beck and Imelda May -- March 26 @ The Wang
Cake -- April 22 @ Citi
Kylie Minogue -- April 29 @ Agganis
Adele -- May 15 @ HOB -- all ages
Brett Dennen -- May 18 @ Royale -- all ages
Lykke Li -- May 20 @ The Paradise - 18+
Katy Perry - June 18 @ TD Garden

Set List for Revel without a Pause at KOTO FM on 2/20

Set List
Revel without a Pause
2-20-2011
on KOTO FM in Telluride, Colorado


1. Bob Marley – Rat Race
2. What’s My Name – Rihanna and Drake
3. Ali in the Jungle – The Hours
4. The Big Bang – Rock Mafia
5. Low Income – Wyclef Jean
6. Blow Your Song – Jim Jones,
7. Alors on Danse – Kanye West
8. The Sex is Good – Saving Abel
9. Mr. Officer, I Swear It Wasn’t Me
10. Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty
11. How You Like Me Now – The Big Heavy
12. Spy – Beat Assailant
13. Finally Moving – Pretty Lights
14. Hurricane Waters – Citizen Cope
15. Sun of a Gun – Oh Land
16. Stairway to Heaven – Rodrigo y Gabriela
17. Rope & Summit – Junip
18. Amazing – OneEskimo
19. Soak it Up – Houses
20. Little Lovin’ – Lissie
21. Fire in Free Town – K’naan
22. Down on Me – 50 Cent and Jeremih
23. Blackbird Song – Duptribe
24. Pick up the Phone – Ludacris, and R. Kelly
25. Give Me a Try – Sizzla
26. Shwaze -- Sally
27. Slow Motion – Juvenile
28. Dice – OC
29. Cassidy and R. Kelly – Hotel
30. Is this Love – Corrine Bailey Rae
31. Summertime -- Sublime

RollnSmokeRecords Covers the 2011 Grammy's

Rihanna. That’s it for the 2011 53^rd Annual Grammy’s Red Carpet. Rihanna.

Opening performance is a power quintet tribute to Grammy performer favorite, Aretha Franklin, with Christina Aguilera and her frosty-white hair like lip gloss, clearly seeking redemption for a gaffed Super Bowl performance.

Followed by the spectacle that is Lady GaGa who follows a sharp producer-instinct as she multi-tasks on stage, satirizing Madonna with her big blonde braid and tall black boots and bared belly and chest plate with breasts – no cones – rather, nipples, and her creepy plastic face.

Hewlitt Packard offers up a super advertising spot when they work a classic Lou Reed track. And the much-tweeted Detroit-Eminem-Chrysler spot from Sunday's Super Bowl reappears.

Muse shows up with solid Brit rock, and Mumford & Sons lays on some hearty folk grooves. Then there’s an unanticipated and out-of-place cameo by Gwenyth Paltrow in duet with Cee Lo Green. Crowd-pleaser “Teenage Dream” is made complete with fluffy valentines by Katy Perry. John Mayer teams up with Norah Jones and Keith Urban for an acoustic cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” and together they go on to present an anti-climactic Song of the Year (as well as Record of the Year) award to “Need You Now” by Lady Antebellum.

The quick jab by Seth Rogen about getting high backstage with Miley Cyrus earns the crowd’s verbal cringe. First time ever on Grammy stage, Mick Jagger -- ever the professional performer with his endless energy – pays tribute to Solomon Burke.

The act we’re all waiting for -- Rihanna & Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie” – is over-poised and dramatic, chopped and diced so that the performers are separate, and then the song is gone, blended into an unfamiliar duet. Then Dr. Dre appears and raps briefly with Eminem, and all the hype is followed by a huge upset in Best New Artist category, which is awarded to Esperanza Spalding (NOT Justin Beiber nor Drake). Rihanna returns to the stage with Drake to perform “What’s My Name.” Steamy grind moves and appealing stage props still can’t beat what sounds better out of the studio.

Night closes out with another shock -- Arcade Fire takes home Album of the Year.