Ahead of Aloud’s show at Paddy Murphy’s, writer Emily Burnham spoke with Henry for this article in the Bangor Daily News, published yesterday afternoon. The interview touched on the history of the band, meeting Jen, and the pool of influences the two draw from when writing music.

Flash forward to 2012, and Aloud has released three full-length albums of infectiously melodic, tightly structured songwriting – most recently in 2010, with the album “Exile.” Known in Boston (where they resettled in 2001) and beyond for their energetic live shows, Beguiristain and de la Osa share just as many musical similarities as they do differences – which contributes to their vital, eclectic style of rock songwriting. …

[Beguiristain]: “Growing up, Jen listened to way more Motown and 60s soul stuff than I did, which I’ve come around to and it’s quite possibly the best music on the planet. The next Aloud album may be in that vein … we shall see.”

Aloud’s newest song, “You Will Know”, holds steady at number four on the Boston Emissions Top Five new songs listener’s poll!

Thank you all for voting and your continued support. This week’s poll can be found on the shiny and new WZLX website.

This week’s episode of Boston Emissions was a tribute to host Anngelle Wood’s former home at WFNX, featuring Boston music from past and present. The show re-airs on WBCN Monday and Thursday nights.

The band’s previous ventures onto the Top Five include “To Die at Sea” (off the album Exile), and Aloud’s Fall 2011 single “The Cash and the Pearls”, which was eventually retired after making the list for seven weeks in a row.

At the Baseball Tavern in August 2007 for a WFNX New England Product Spotlight show (Photo: Annie March)

I’m sure most of you have heard the news by now: WFNX is on the outs after nearly 30 years. The news here’s being met with heartache. For a long time, the station was a big part of us and half the time was our go to on the dial when we wanted to hear something on the radio. I’m sure it was the same for a lot of Boston.

More than any other station in the area, FNX was the first station that really went to bat for us when we were starting out, particularly from New England Product (which later became Boston Accents, or so the legend goes). They were even cool enough to include us, a baby band, on their Wicked Cool Boston Bands compilation album back in 2006.

Hell, even outside of the station I’ve found the folks who work (or have worked there) to be genuinely passionate about music in a way you don’t really see often. It shouldn’t have been surprising considering they had this short list of rules posted at the station…

Aloud’s new song “You Will Know” has made it another week on the Boston Emissions Top Five on WZLX/WBCN and climbed up a rung in the listener’s poll, taking it all the way to to the #4 spot.

Let’s keep this party going! Head over to the Boston Emissions site to vote for “You Will Know”.

Hospitality at Great Scott this past Sunday

It’s been a hell of a week, that’s for sure.

For starters, the big old 10th anniversary show at Great Scott was a week ago, a source of minor stress for me, like most shows, really. Clinton Degan (known ’round these parts as “Degan”) wrote a great piece on the evening over at Allston Pudding. The review is more eloquent and probably more accurate than anything I could ever write about it here beyond “I was mildly drunk and it was a particularly fun show to play”. And he seemed to remember things we may or may not have said on stage.

I’d also like to extend a big thank-you to Spirit Kid, Oranjuly, and The Wicked Tomorrow, not just for playing with us but for being generally awesome folks. Good tunes all around. And to Great Scott, too, for being a friend of Aloud all these years. (And for getting rid of that goddamned stage railing.)

All that aside, saw a bunch of shows this week, too. Apart from the immediate envy it evokes, it does recharge the batteries. Sometimes you get so tied up in the day to day of being in a band—”Shit! We need to write today,” or “We have to send out a bunch of emails this afternoon,” or “Why is the van on fire?”—that you have to remind yourself you actually like music.

Just released last week, Aloud’s new song “You Will Know” has been getting spins on Boston radio, notably on WFNX’s Boston Accents and WZLX’s Boston Emissions.

This past Sunday, the song made Boston Emissions’ Top Five new songs! Go vote for “You Will Know” on the Boston Emissions site on WZLX!

If you missed the show on Sunday, you can hear it again at WBCN.com tonight (and every Monday) at 7pm and Thursdays at 8pm.

You can listen to “You Will Know” exclusively at Red Bull Soundstage.