Music
Kim, People Are Dying
The Bay Area’s Beast Nest forges dense drone tracks that build in electronic intensity through accumulated layers of samples and gummy beats.
Solid Ghost
Minneapolis’ Har Mar Superstar begins his 2021 full-length Roseville on a confessional note in “Sold Ghost” designed to disarm the listener for what follows. So what follows?
Fleet Center
Boston’s Haasan Barclay is a beatmaker who constantly reinvents himself in DUAL SHOCK.
Folk Music Is Insane
In 2019 Hallelujah The Hills released I’m You to rave reviews. Listen to it again for the first time.
Wishing (You) Well
Milford’s Born Without Bones brings the lightning (and the thunder), but the angsty storytelling of the lyrics finds its true home in the halcyon moments before and after the storm.
Roadrunner
When the pandemic hit, they responded the only way a pop punk knows how: make more pop punk.
A Professional (ft. Felicia Douglass)
Wilder Maker drops new track off Male Models: “A Professional” (ft. Felicia Douglass).
Backslidin’
Speedy Ortiz has been trucking along for a decade now, piloted by the steady hand of Sadie Dupuis. Stream “Backslidin’.”
Back From the Dead
A kamikaze fireball shot straight out the mouth of a pissed-off Reptar. That’s how Cerce’s Cowboy Music comes at you.
Things You Do
Somerville’s Leopard Print Taser hit hard with a punk attack. Stream “Things You Do.”
I Wanna Be A Dog
Colleen Green’s wry strummer “I Wanna Be A Dog” harks back to a Stooges classic.