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BARRENCE IS BACK: WHY THE BLUES ROCK ICON WANTS TO MAKE YOUR DAY

Written by Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

Boston’s 1980s blues rock star Barrence Whitfield is ready for the spotlight once more — and he knows you will smile in his glow.

MR. AIRPLANE MAN: BACK IN THE PILOT SEAT

Written by Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

Boston’s beloved ’90s blues rock duo played with the White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. So what took them so long to end their hiatus and record a new LP?

BABY BOOMING: HOW INDIE POPPER BABY! FOUND A NEW HOME IN BOSTON

Written by Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

After leaving Florida, Kaley Honeycutt found a new home for her surf pop band Baby! right here in Boston.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: ALLSTON’S EXPERIMENTAL EMO ACT THINKS BEYOND THE SELF

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The empathy of Allston five-piece People Like You stretches from their new record, Verse, all the way to their lives outside music.

PAINT IT BLACK: WHY XASTHUR TRANSITIONED FROM BLACK METAL TO FOLK

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"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."

RAGE AGAINST THE MAGAZINE: COUNTERCULTURE IS ALIVE AND WELL

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A friendly reminder that Boston is a city that runs on cyclical demolition and rebirth. Counterculture never left.

LINA TULLGREN: EARNEST OPTIMISM AND ACCIDENTAL MELANCHOLY IN NEW ENGLAND

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Jamaica Plain’s rising musician on the overlooked optimism of sad guitarwork and bailing Berklee before she even got here.