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Originally meant to be a duet between Lynda Mandolyn (Tiger Bomb, Crystal Canyon) and the late Justine Covault, Mandolyn has released a cover of The Paris Sisters' "I Love How You Love Me." Mandolyn's version is very faithful to the original, with just a little bit more of a garage rock edge to it. There's even some surprisingly noisy and rough guitar work later on that you wouldn't expect in such a clean tribute to a girl group classic. It's a great tribute to her late friend, and is going to work perfectly for fans of early rock and roll, doo wop, and garage rock. As with virtually anything on Run Bar Records, this is going to get our highest endorsement. Lynda Mandolyn says of her new single: "Justine (Covault) approached me about doing this song as a duet together. We both shared out love for David Lynch (Angelo Badalamenti) and the early 60’s girl groups. We started sending notes back and forth to each other planning on how we’d like to approach ...

The winter is a fairly dead time for live music in New England. A storm can derail a live show at any time, and who really wants to deal with being cold and carrying around a big, bulky coat inside a sweaty, packed club? Whistlestop Rock Festival is going to change that for the better. Simone Berk (Kid Gulliver, Sugar Snow) reached out via a group message to women in bands about doing a show together. That idea expanded into a regionally touring festival featuring eight bands plus special guests in each city. As you can tell by the name, Whistlestop Rock Festival sticks with the rock side of things and features the retro-mod punk of The Chelsea Curve, the Rolling Stones meets Hank Williams of Cold Expectations, Boston rock veterans Field Day, heavily 90's alt-rock infleunced Heather Rose in Clover, the power pop punk of Justine and The Unclean, Kid Gulliver's power pop, power trio The Knock Ups, the impossible to classify Powerslut, and Tiger Bomb's garage pop. Any thre...