What’s Spicy?

Live Review

Aug 13

Written By Michael Gutierrez

Yoko Miwa Trio live at The Mad Monkfish on Friday, 2 August 2024.

Three spice symbols gotta have that kick.

The Jamaica Plain Music Festival is coming!

Also known as the JP Music Fest. That’s got more zing.

This year’s edition is coming your way September 7, and each edition is organized with tender love and care by a neighborhood community that loves live music and knows how to have a good time. This is a bottom-up affair, by and for the people, and it needs your support.

If you missed the annual Smell The Love fundraiser, you can still donate below!

If you missed the fundraiser show in March at the American Legion Hall with Rick Berlin, Colonel Broccoli and the Legion Basement Band, and Fantastic Trees, you can still donate below!

If you missed the annual classic fundraiser John Casey’s JP Bar Wars at Midway Cafe, you can still donate below!

Do your part to keep Jamaica Plain fresh AND funky.

Hump Nights

Nov 22

Cortez / Worshipper / Curse The Son

Nov 30

WORM | Presidential Disgrace | Screw Cart | Neponset Monastary

Dec 3

ONCE Presents: Ezra Furman Doing What She Wants

Dec 4

The Ladybug Transistor / Lightheaded / Mark Robinson (of Cotton Candy)

Dec 7

The Lotusheads / The Dead Flowers / Music Farm / The Pretty Fears

Dec 13

The 4th Wall: Nectarine Girl, Special Guest, Exit 18, Wulfer

Dec 13

Big Ol’ Dirty Bucket / Funk Safari

Dec 14

ONCE Presents: Scream Along Blue Xmas w/ Billy Hough

$Fat Togue Holiday Bash: Give Up!, Love City Dirt, BAD\\VERB$

Dec 16

Fat Togue Holiday Bash: Give Up!, Love City Dirt, BAD\\VERB

Dec 26

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along

Dec 31

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along

Yoko Miwa Trio performed a pair of sets for its Friday night residency at the jazz spot in Central Square, The Mad Monkfish. The stage, inside the Jazz Baroness Room, featured Yoko Miwa at the piano stage right and Scott Goulding on drums stage left, sandwiching a bassist between them.

The set list included a mix of standards and originals, including a tune by Portuguese songwriter Joyce Moreno, a ditty by Burt Bacharach, and a Miwa-penned number called “Inside A Dream,” which sounds like a line from a David Lynch film.

In other news, the Spicy Ramen Soup? Not spicy! When the menu lists a dish with three (3) spicy markers after the name, it should be an invitation to heat lovers and a warning to the mild at heart to stay away.

Now, I’m not in the business of spice for masochistic kicks – I don’t want to needlessly suffer. But the dish should have a little burn. After half a bowl of that tasty noodle soup a baseline of heat had built up in the mouth, but it’s too little and too late. Ramp up that heat or demote the dish to one (1) or two (2) spice symbols. Just saying.