Hi there! I'm Kristen Eck... Welcome to another edition of Knock Knock: New Music! We are officially into the month of April and have some exciting things to look forward to this month, including Record Store Day, which falls on Saturday April 21st. We have album releases to look forward to from Goat Girl, Kimbra, and Speedy Ortiz (who we talked about last week.) Stay-tuned for more about other upcoming LP's this month from Eels, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Lord Huron, Bishop

Hello and welcome to a new week! Spring arrives on Tuesday, but you wouldn't know it from the thermometer, which sits at a nice frosty 19-degrees this morning in the Boston area. The International Day of Happiness happens on Wednesday just ahead of a potential Nor'easter on Thursday. Oh well, we'll still have music to listen to while we wait for Spring to arrive in-earnest here in New England... Sometime around June. From the music history files for this week: Pink Floyd, U

Hello and welcome to a new week! We're almost midway into March with lots of exciting music releases and shows ahead. International Women's Day happened last Thursday, March 8th and I didn't get a moment to really sift through my thoughts until now on a Sunday morning over coffee before heading out to the Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. International Women's Day is a wonderful opportunity for us to reflect upon and honor the achievements and con

Hello and welcome back to Knock Knock: New Music! There's a number of things going on in music history this week, including David Bowie's first-ever television appearance (before he was even known as "Bowie.") He also had a big album release this week in 1975. We also saw notable record releases from Tears For Fears, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, The Buzzcocks, and U2. We also have some big musical birthdays this week including David Gilmour, Chris Squire, John Cale, and Ga

Greetings and welcome to the month of March! Don't forget to check-out the entire February playlist for Knock Knock: New Music! now available on Spotify. We listened to a bunch of great new artists together last month! I had quite a bit of music & entertainment history info for this week, so I figured I'd get a head-start on it today. Not to worry, though... Fun-4-Friday music videos are still on the schedule for tomorrow! The CD player made its debut in the United States 35

Welcome to a new week and another edition of Knock Knock: New Music! Lots of stuff going on in music history this week... 45-RPM records reached a new milestone, as did CD-Players, and the very first commercial FM radio station went on-the-air as well. We found-out about things that go to "11" and how difficult life-in-a-band can be when your drummer keeps spontaneously combusting. Also this week, we celebrate some big birthdays in music including Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, and

Morning everyone and welcome to the weekend! I mentioned in yesterday's edition of Fun-4-Friday that I'm working on sharpening the focus of the Friday feature, which I believe is trending toward retro with a weekly look back at some fun music from the past. Friday, though, is the big day for NEW album releases, so what to do? Why not chat about them over coffee on Saturday morning? Let's give that a try. Today's feature comes complete with a Spotify playlist, so you can h

Hi there and welcome to a new week! Lots of stuff going-on in music history this week. It started on Sunday Feb. 18th with the 20th-Anniversary of an epic-battle between Robert Smith from The Cure and Barbra Streisand. There's loads else to remember this week, but let's first get to the NEW music! Click on the VIDEO above to start this week's YouTube playlist. London band, Django Django is first-up today with a new single and video off their third studio album, "Marble Skie

Hey everyone... Welcome back to Friday! This is one of my favorite days of the week because it has become the predominant day in the music industry for the release of new albums. That's great timing in my mind, as I love sitting down at my desk on Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and having a first listen to my pile of new music! Before we get to the new stuff, though, let's take a quick spin in the time-machine and see what classic Alternative Rock albums came out th

Hello hello and welcome to another edition of Knock Knock: New Music! February 12th marks an anniversary for those of us who grew-up in the Boston area in the 1980's. Though MTV went on the air in 1981, many of us did not have cable. Living on Cape Cod, we were in-range of the over-the-air broadcast signals from television stations in both Boston and Providence, RI. At my house, my family had a rooftop antenna that picked-up the primary VHF stations that carried network prog

Here we are... Halfway between the Winter Solstice and the first day of Spring: Groundhog Day. I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who has stopped by and visited the website and my YouTube channel since things got started last month! I'm very much looking forward to a great year of new music and I'll be unveiling some additional features in the weeks and months ahead! So if you missed the YouTube presentations for January's episodes of Knock Knock: New Music! Here ar

Hello and welcome to Week-3 of Knock Knock: New Music! I'm so happy you've stopped by for a visit. Just to get you up to speed, this is a weekly YouTube playlist. Every Monday I'll pop-in with a couple new music videos to tell you about... Just keep watching after I'm done blabbing-away to check-out the songs. No time right now? No problem! Just click "save" on the playlist in YouTube and come back & watch when you have a minute. Of course, if you like the tunes, you're all

Hey everybody! Welcome to the verge of the weekend. I hope you enjoyed Week-2 of Knock Knock: New Music! If you haven't checked that out yet, there are some great new songs from Superorganism and Kimbra waiting for your headphones to fire-up. Kimbra opens her world tour this Sunday at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. I can't wait to see that! Kimbra Photo Credit: Micaiah Carter (Courtesy of Warner Brothers) Fridays are usually a big release day for the music industry. T