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MR. AIRPLANE MAN: BACK IN THE PILOT SEAT
WHEEL OF TUNES: WEAVES
BABY BOOMING: HOW INDIE POPPER BABY! FOUND A NEW HOME IN BOSTON

After leaving Florida, Kaley Honeycutt found a new home for her surf pop band Baby! right here in Boston.
WHEEL OF TUNES: GREAT GRANDPA

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.