Vehement Caress — Frailty
Vehement Caress is a long-standing Boston-based purveyor of pummeling power electronics and droning death industrial. He creates noises that are rich, heavy,…
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Human Bodies — Demo XXMV
Local wreckers Human Bodies are currently out on the road, taking their frenetic brand of punk-influenced black metal on a sprawling 35-date…
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Alto Jeffro — Horseneck Beach
Horseneck Beach is so strangely, yet perfectly titled. In terms of pure topical values—lyrical content, titles—each song makes no explicit mention of…
Mia Friedman — What Will We Do?
Released in January of this year through Friendship Tapes, folk songstress Mia Friedman’s ‘What Will We Do?’ is bound to be on…
Old Wave — Just Like Catching Light in a Jar
How great that in 2014 a bona fide cosmic Americana band can emerge on the underground music scene. Has me hopeful that…
Robert Robinson — “Dead Possum”
SORE EROS’s ROBERT ROBINSON ventures into solo territory for the first time on CONNECTICUT RIVER, his new LP out now on FEEDING TUBE RECORDS…
STO 12: Parts and Crafts
Parts and Crafts is located in Somerville, Massachusetts at 577 Somerville Avenue. The Parts and Crafts collective is a group of thinkers,…
STO 11: Balich 5 & 10
Balich 5 & 10 is located in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Arlington, Massachusetts at 1314 Massachusetts Avenue. Balich is a traditional…
The Prefab Messiahs — “Bobb’s Psychedelic Car”
One of the most positive effects the Internet has had on how music is consumed is the way it’s allowed connoisseurs of a…
Goodbye, Fagettes
It was dusk on a winter day when I thought of the best band name. I had no band to speak of,…
Al Marantz — Forgotten Device
Al Marantz, the Cambridge-based writer and performer of regularly catchy, lo-fi pop tunes, has a way of reaching into thin air and…
