Boston’s Best Local Albums of 2017 Knar Bedian February 5, 2018 Featured, Local Spotlight Each year, our staff comes together to highlight our favorite albums released by local artists. 2017 felt like a big year for Twitter: Be it words shared by our courageous sisters, daughters, and mothers that...
Album Premiere: Glory the Night by Atlas Lab Jon Simmons July 10, 2017 Featured, Local Spotlight, Premiere The refrain of "Glory Be" from Atlas Lab's new album, Glory the Night, goes, "Glory be the fast food / glory be the rest stops / glory be the pavement / glory the night." The repetition is more than just...
Boston’s Best Local Albums of 2016 Jon Simmons January 18, 2017 Featured, Local Spotlight The time for year-end lists has passed, but it's not too late to call attention to the albums our staff selected as 2016's best local releases. From funk to homegrown folk flavors, we were impressed by...
Weekly Wrap Up – 5/29/16 Araz Havan May 29, 2016 Columns, Featured, News, Weekly Wrap-Up Hope everyone enjoyed their Memorial Day Weekend, especially those of you who got a chance to go to Boston Calling. Unfortunately, I was unable to go, so I lived vicariously through social media coverage. But...
Premiere: No Wires by John Shakespear Knar Bedian March 18, 2016 Featured, Local Spotlight, Local Spotlight Feature 1 Comment John Shakespear has come a long way since choir school and his post-punk-meets-the-Chili-Peppers high school band. And while his solo material revolves around acoustic guitar and lo-fi sounds – quite...
Song Premiere: “Wake Up Slow” – Atlas Lab Knar Bedian November 19, 2015 Featured, Local Spotlight, Premiere At least one good thing came out of the brutal winter that pounded the city of Boston of this year. Cited by Atlas Lab as one of their major influences and inspirations for the upcoming EP, “Wake Up...
Video Premiere: Atlas Lab’s “Castellana” Nitesh Gupta February 2, 2015 Featured, Premiere If you haven’t been spending all your time browsing the submissions for NPR's Tiny Desk Contest—or religiously following their Tumblr, where they publish one each day—then I don’t know what...