#the macrotones

[destroybabylon]

The Flying Vipers will be the special guests for The Macrotones album release party! This will be our one & only live performance of 2016 - grab tickets now.

Saturday Oct 22 @ Lizard Lounge - Cambridge MA

[destroybabylon]

[marcbeaudette]

17 sec recap: The Macrotones @ Rubber Tracks Boston courtesy of @conversemusic.

Shot by Mercer @mediumgray

[destroybabylon]

Saturday April 2nd

Destroy Babylon The Macrotones

Penuche’s 96 Hanover St. Manchester NH

9pm | $5 | 21+

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[johnnydsuptown]

It's New Show Thursday and here we go! Sat 7/13 (7p) Super soul screamer Barrence Whitfield Sat 7/13 (10p) Afrofunk dance party w/ The Macrotones Tue 10/22 Psychobilly/garage rock w/ Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds feat. Kid Congo Powers of Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. New record just came out! Tix onsale tomorrow @ 9am.

[burlveneer-music]

The Macrotones "Sand and Wind" - Afrobeat from Boston

“I would just like to stress that we are not an Afrobeat band,’’ says Leskovic, an original member of the group, which has seen various incarnations since its foundation in 2007. “In a way, I think Afrobeat is kind of beat. We are trying to do our own thing with it. It’s a style that’s kind of ‘take it or leave it,’ and we put our own spin on that.’’

This kind of genre hair-splitting isn’t unusual for a band seeking to define its style -“spy music,’’ as they like to call it - which drummer Aaron Duffy says emerged during the recording of their 2011 album, “First Signs of Danger’’ (Young Cub Records). But despite their equivocations, the sound that pulsed from the rehearsal space in Leskovic’s garage an hour earlier owes at least some of its inspiration to the robust percussion flavors and punchy horn sections that colored works from Afrobeat pioneers like Fela Kuti and Tony Allen. The band’s development owes as much to its identification with that genre as it does with its desire to escape the constraints that accompany it. (Boston Globe)