Vivian Darkbloom is a pseudonym for the novelist Vladimir Nabokov, a writer who loved controversy, intrigue, and continually thwarting the expectations of his readers. The band borrowed this name in homage to Nabokov (whom...

Hallelujah the Hills was born in 2005 out of the ashes of the cult Boston band The Stairs. On the night of their final performance Ryan Walsh (Vox, Guitar) and Eric Meyer (Drums) announced that they would start a new band,...

Boston indie-pop quintet The Hush Now have made an impression on music critics and fans by wedding the “lush sugar-spun melodies of shoegaze’s dreamy heyday” to “the hooky muscle of bands like Guided by Voices and...

From their 2008 album Lensing The alt-rock sound coming out of Boston has a name: a’tris. The group draws upon a myriad of influences to create a noise that moves crowds to their feet. The front...

From their 2007 Album Funny Day Bird Mancini’s third and newest CD features 13 all new songs with lush vocal arrangements–performed entirely by Ruby Bird and Billy Carl Mancini–along with a plethora of...

Elliot Martin, lead vocalist of the Cambridge based progressive reggae band John Brown’s Body, had some choice words about their musical direction that we’d like to share here: “I think that the strongest...

Today we present one of Boston, Massachusetts best kept secrets, This Car Up. Since our basketball team in LA is currently being spanked by Boston as I type this, I figured today was as good as any to pay tribute to the...

Sorry for the long absence, guys. I hope to regain my once-frequent schedule of releasing a show about every week. But hopefully the wait will have been worth it. In this show, we start off in San Francisco, fly across the...

Welcome back to classic IR! After hyper focusing on certain styles in Episodes 101-103, today’s show finds your always-caffeinated host back in typical form, playing all kinds of genre benders (From fringe-pop to jazz punk...