Music
Living Hour: Someday Is Today
The gazey, dreampop excursion takes us into a languid interior dimension of emotional transcendence.
A Dinosaur, an Ohioan, and a Comic Walk into a Bar…
It was a night for nostalgia, it was a night for newbies at House of Blues.
Dominic French: “McFrench Blue”
Much like the McRib, our highlighted track “McFrench Blue” is a tasty offering you’ll want to snap up before it's gone.
Léonie Pernet: “Missing Love”
Breathy, blissed-out club tracks are the order of the day on Léonie Pernet’s 3-track release Missing Love.
Kitner: Shake The Spins
Kitner tells the story of life lived at the tail end of a boozy buzz, with another night of debauchery on the way.
Colyn Cameron: “Fault Lines”
Vancouver’s Colyn Cameron delivers cool, country soundscapes that never overcrowd the frame.
Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves: “The Banks of Miramichi”
Real deal old-timey folk energy wafts off this album like the sweet smell of a fresh-baked pie.
Twen: One Stop Shop
Twen charts a course across the sound waves of trans-Atlantic pop on their LP One Stop Shop.
Joseph Petric: “Spirit Cloud”
Next. Level. Accordion. Player. That’s what you can call Joseph Petric in four sentence fragments.
Sasha Berliner: “Jade”
Berliner hails from San Francisco, but currently calls New York home. What does New York call her back?
Yo Christmas
Christmas came early and delivered Yo Kinky beneath the tree at Midway Cafe on Monday night.
Odeya Nini: “Pacific Wave”
Let Odeya Nini take you on a journey from the depths of her diaphragm to the tip of her tongue.
Iceblink: Carpet Cocoon
Ambient is no longer the province of purely theoretical sound experiments. Enter Iceblink.
Walküre on Mars
It was a Berklee College of Music love orgy at the Midway Cafe matinee show on Saturday afternoon.
Tenci: “Vanishing Coin”
Tenci is low key country folk with enough odd angles to slide her into the indie rock zone.
Other Brother Daryl: “The Ballad of Joni and Graham”
Whoah, deepcut Newhart reference. You don’t get that every day in 2022.
Mamalarky: Pocket Fantasy
A gooey, 12-stack musical layer cake, shotgun-blasted with rainbow sprinkles by a laughing clown.
Lê Almeida: “Fuck The New School”
Psicodelia or psychedelic, however you like it, from the Brazilian heavy rock jammer Lê Almeida.
June Jones: “Gamer”
Take the electropop speak-song of June Jones for a cool breeze drive around town on your car stereo.