From Guerilla Toss to People Like You, here’s what to add to your BBQ playlist.
THE BEST LOCAL ALBUMS OF 2017 (SO FAR)
From homegrown rock to hometown rap, here’s a cheat sheet to Boston’s best music of the year.
PAINT IT BLACK: WHY XASTHUR TRANSITIONED FROM BLACK METAL TO FOLK
“The music I’m doing today is dismissed as something simple or fun, and it’s neither. It’s more negative than I wish for it to be, really, but that’s life usually.”
WHEEL OF TUNES: TARA JANE O’NEIL
The newly minted singer-songwriter talks U2, beaches, and embarrassing laughs before headlining Great Scott.
LINA TULLGREN: EARNEST OPTIMISM AND ACCIDENTAL MELANCHOLY IN NEW ENGLAND
Jamaica Plain’s rising musician on the overlooked optimism of sad guitarwork and bailing Berklee before she even got here.
CLAM, CRAB, COCKLE, COWRIE: THE CREATIVE SPONTANEITY OF CATE LE BON
The Welsh musician explains how to unleash your creative side and create fake holidays.
LOW-KEY LOCAL SWOON: BIRTHING HIPS, KAL MARKS, MORE PLAY MIDDLE EAST UPSTAIRS
It’s nights like this where you turn to folks who left for New York City and taunt them for leaving a city with music this stacked.
SOLO RABBIT: ESKIMEAUX AND THE STRENGTH OF BEING SINGLE
How one singer-songwriter shows defiance in a world of hurt.
FUCK SADNESS: ANGEL OLSEN AND THE POWER OF RECLAIMING HAPPINESS
Because there’s nothing more terrifying than choosing to be joyful in a world that constantly berates you with reasons not to be.
SKIPPING STONES: MUTUAL BENEFIT TALKS SOPHOMORE STRESSORS AND BROOKLYN BUSTLE
The ex-Jamaica Plain project talks New York City apartments, moments of clarity, and how to maintain folk’s intimacies.
