Local Spotlight

As the new year begins, we look back to the local albums that captured us in 2019. Across all the records we see some shared themes cropped up: cries of despair paired with glimmers of hope, truly open and...

Recently nominated for “New Artist of the Year” at Boston Music Awards, local duo Optic Bloom reveals how their personal growth and history in the local music scene has led to their success.  Neither...

Terminal 14 paints a starry night over opaque, winter days. Over the last three years, Sweeps has witnessed his momentum take flight with his jazz-brewed hip-hop soaked in syrupy synths. The Boston-based...

Stepping away from the Green Line busking area and into the recording booth, “Surreal Estate” is the first recorded material from Somerville’s Sophia Belle despite having performed around the city for...

On a chilly and moonless October night in Boston, Tall Boys arrived at my apartment for their interview. As I went down the stairs to let them in, I could see the lead vocalist and guitarist, Charley Binkow,...

You are ambling through an uncanny carnival in the middle of a clearing; there is no moon or stars, and the October air chills you to the bone as carnival music cuts through the night. You realize you are the...

Boston-based indie rockers Hush Club offer riveting, warm live takes on already-superb studio tracks The music of Boston-based DIY indie rock act Hush Club is largely aimed to revolve around, and create,...

After a massively destructive apartment fire, a rebranded The Hats releases their first LP in over five years. Patrik Gochez of the Hats describes the fire that destroyed his and his bandmates’ apartment as...

Ten days before their show at Great Scott, the members of Lula Wiles are as scattered geographically as their talents. Eleanor Buckland, who plays acoustic guitar and fiddle, and who was originally thought to...

Bat House drove out of Boston on a stagnant, humid day. A month later, they returned disheveled and sweaty, full of stories and the chips and peach rings that helped countless Midwestern miles roll by. For...