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

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted March 22, 2018 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 NINA CORCORAN Posted March 19, 2018 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?

WHEEL OF TUNES: WEAVES

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted October 12, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

The Toronto art rock group talks baby pandas, backfired edibles, and what makes them cry.

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

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted August 25, 2017 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.

WHEEL OF TUNES: GREAT GRANDPA

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted August 4, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Alt rockers Great Grandpa talk 3 AM burger trips, Scrubs, and why they were never grounded growing up.

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

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted July 27, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

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

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted May 20, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

"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."