Local Spotlight: Covey Beth Hutchings January 5, 2015 “Earthy and elemental.” That’s the first phrase that comes to mind for Covey, a Berklee-based indie-folk band, when asked to describe their...
Local Spotlight: Kyle Thornton & The Company Jon Simmons December 29, 2014Hats off to Kyle Thornton & The Company, who are starting to make a name for themselves as a soul...
Local Spotlight: Ripe Jon Simmons December 9, 2014in an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony within a two year period. That’s Ripe’s endgame. Robbie Wulfsohn,...
Free Download: Local Spotlight Mixtape Vol. 2 Nitesh Gupta December 4, 2014It’s time for our second free, downloadable mixtape featuring songs exclusively from some of our past Local Spotlight acts! We’ve been pining through hundreds of...
Song Premiere: A Double Dose of Local Knar Bedian December 3, 2014December may have crept up on us, but we won’t leave you standing out in the cold. Thanks to two...
Boston’s Best Hip-Hop Songs: An Introduction Jon Simmons November 26, 2014hich is it, that Boston has no hip-hop scene, or that it hasn’t been discovered yet? The answer depends on who...
Local Spotlight: Otter Adam Kaminski November 14, 2014General George Washing Machine, Urethra Franklin, Stone Cold Jane Austen… Believe it or not, these band names were once semi-serious...
Local Spotlight: The Soundscape of Ben Cosgrove Zoë Atlas November 4, 2014Ben Cosgrove was much younger than I expected. Two weeks prior to our interview, he dropped a copy of his...
Local Spotlight: Bakari J.B. Jon Simmons October 29, 2014here came a point when they became too much to handle, and he had to reel them in. That is,...
Album Premiere (Part I), “Blue” by Oh, MalĂ´ Jon Simmons October 28, 2014 o listen up—here’s a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world… and it has nothing...