Listen Local: 5 Songs for August Knar Bedian August 28, 2015This August edition of Listen Local features handclaps, lazy surf-rock, smooth jazz solos. Ready? Go. “Television” – You Won’t Most TV’s...
Premiere: Nocturnes by Summer Homes Samantha Fleishman August 25, 2015though “drone” has a rather negative connotation – redolent of a professor speaking in a monotone, or a soulless object...
Premiere: Houseguests – A Carnival Game Anna Marketti August 21, 2015 arnivals have many characteristic identifying factors–from cotton candy, to unbelievably addicting games that you know are rigged but are...
Local Spotlight: Chaparrals Anna Marketti August 12, 2015Boston doesn’t immediately call forward verdant imagery, but Chaparrals’s The Slowly Session channels the natural world into chilling, simple songs....
Guitars, Grammar, And Growing Up With The Fundies Samantha Fleishman August 4, 2015he practice room in the back of Club Passim was long and narrow and had only one window on the...
Qup: Reinventing Playlist Collaboration Tom Dillon July 30, 2015o one wants to be tethered to the speakers at a party. Inevitably, the responsibility of playing music at a...
No Moon Landing Can Stop Us Now: Newport Folk Festival (Day 2) Zoë Atlas July 29, 2015ay two of the Newport Folk Festival was a whirlwind of rumors (James Taylor? Neil Young?), some technical issues on...
Fifty Years Since Dylan Went Electric: Newport Folk Festival (Day 1) Matt McCarthy July 28, 2015ifty years ago, Bob Dylan roamed the weathered stronghold of Fort Adams along the beaches of Newport. For the first...
Local Spotlight: Cordelia and the Buffalo Anna Marketti July 21, 2015oston is often associated with a richly Irish background, but walking down the cobblestone streets, one discovers it’s not as...
Song/Video Premiere: luhx – “Mess” Jonah Ollman July 20, 2015hen I talk about music that I really like, I often end up mentioning the ‘vibe.’ It’s hard to describe why a...