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
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
“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.”
MINT GREEN: HOW A RISING POP PUNK ACT KEEPS THE SCENE FRESH
How the dissolution of a high school band led to one of the most promising pop punk acts in Boston.
RAGE AGAINST THE MAGAZINE: COUNTERCULTURE IS ALIVE AND WELL
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
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.
GET A YES: HOW SAD13 OF SPEEDY ORTIZ MAKES CONSENT COOL
Speedy Ortiz’s frontwoman goes solo and tackles demisexuality, consent, comics, and everything in between.
