Music
Jazz the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
Fred Lipsius and Friends warmed up the movie crowd at Regent Theatre.
Angel Bat Dawid: “RECORDARE – Recall the Joy”
An ode to black joy in a time that is obsessed with black misery.
DonutShoes: “Smackaroons”
Some lean soft into the video game aspect of chiptune. DonutShoes leans hard.
Emilio Teubal: “Tokyo Trenque”
Music never reveals all its secrets, and Teubal plays it to perfection.
Miss Bones: “Basketball Shorts”
Boston’s Miss Bones closes out its latest LP Grey Lady with the jangly pop winner.
One If By Land, None If By Lowell
Senseless Optimism released the funk hounds at Silhouette Lounge.
Horse Lords: “Against Gravity”
Blast jazz, microtonalism, Saharan guitar sounds fighting a state of entropy.
Palm: “On The Sly”
A heady mix of sounds lights up like an electric choir on “On The Sly.”
Nighttime: Keeper Is The Heart
Go back to the future with Nighttime’s time-traveling wyrd folk spectacle Keeper Is The Heart.