Today’s feature comes from the late 2013 LP “Comfort Songs” by Los Angeles based artist CLOUD (or Tyler Taormina). “Frére Jacques and Me” is a beautiful song that starts off slow but rewards...
Rebuilder: Mile or a...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Boston, Massachusetts five-piece punk band REBUILDER is back with an exceptional new EP entitled “Sounds from the Massachusetts Turnpike“, issued this last month on Panic State Records. It’s an inspired...
Rookin: Once More to...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
“Once More to the Lake” is the lead-off track from the late 2015 album “The Lookout” by Brooklyn based band ROOKIN, seven beautiful tracks of indie folk-rock. You may remember we previously featured...
Rebuilder: The Natio...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The National Bohemian is the opening track off the 2015 LP ‘Rock & Roll In America‘ by Boston Massachusetts pop-punk band REBUILDER. This entire album is pretty impressive past this great opener and can be...
Rest: Forgiven
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Boston Massachusetts punk/shoegaze band REST put together a six track EP “Destroy Me” in February of this past year, reportedly recorded in a Basement in Southbridge. “Forgiven” is the lead-off track...
Gem Club: Spirit and...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Gem Club is a chamber pop band out of the Boston Massachusetts area made up of singer/pianist Christopher Barnes and his collaborators, cellist Kristen Drymala and vocalist Ieva Berberian. Just a few days before the New...
Easthampton Savings ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s feature comes to us out of Easthampton, Massachusetts via the EASTHAMPTON SAVINGS BAND, or ESB for short. The four-piece of Jenna Lloyd, Thomas Ferriter, Jeff Lloyd, Les LeBarge is tagged as experimental rock...
Frank & Dependen...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Frank & Dependent are an indie folk-rock band based in Boston, but their members are based all over the country. Its not readily apparent if they are on permanent hiatus, although their social sites have been quiet...
Soft Pyramids: Paper...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Soft Pyramids is the collaboration of five Boston-area musicians whose sophomore album “Planes” is due out digitally on the 28th of October. Many of the new songs on Planes arose in the epiphanic first few...
The Color and Sound:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Forming from the collateral of two deceased Boston bands around 2012, the Massachusetts based group set out to whittle down their influences in and experiences into a uniquely-tinted blend of a modern indie band. The result...
Miss Geo: Sea In Bet...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Boston based band MISS GEO is poised to release their debut studio album “Connection” on September 16th. The melodic synth layers of today’s featured track Sea In Between explore hope and youthful...
Rookin: After Dark
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The soul-stirring indie folk sounds of Brooklyn’s ROOKIN were first captured and placed on the self produced EP entitled Stonewall, released two short years ago in July of 2014. The band is lead by Adam Horn and Ben...
luhx.: Stay for the ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
luhx. is a new indie pop band formed in Boston, MA that incorporates a bit of an R&B vibe into their multifaceted sound. The newest single ‘Stay for the Night‘ blends together beautiful haunting vocals while...
State Shirt: Portaso...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
We were very excited to receive the news this past week that LA artist State Shirt has returned with a new album entitled, Lost Hills. Lured back to the memories of singer Ethan Tuft’s 1980s youth, Lost Hills is a...
Found Audio: Carniva...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Denny, the drummer/mixing engineer for Boston based psychedelic-bluegrass musicians FOUND AUDIO sent over the first promising single off the band’s forthcoming second album, Locomotive Earth. “Carnival“,...
The Jaguar Club: Str...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
New York/Massachusetts band THE JAGUAR CLUB have recently issued a new EP, Close, which was inspired by a return to the idea of a band being “a band.” Someone writes a song and then the group completely re-moulds...
Small Talk: Brothers
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Welp…National Siblings Day may be over but we apparently can’t let go of the feeling based on the title of today’s featured track. The aptly named ‘Brothers’ comes by way of the new Boston...
Abbie Barrett & ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
After settling in Somerville, MA, following a path of possibly dead-ending jobs near her roots in NYC, Abbie Barrett decidedly embraced her love for music. Living in a one-bedroom apartment that her friends refer to as...
3&O: Everything ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s feature is from 3&O, a NH, Mass, and soon to be California based group, apparently born out of the posting of a Reddit ad seeking a vocalist. Since this fortuitous meeting of said vocalist, and after the...
Hayley Reardon: Numb...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Seventeen year old Massachusetts artist Hayley Reardon returns on March 11, 2014 with her new EP “Wayfindings”, what looks to be a very promising follow-up to her previous indie folk effort, “Where the...
Lofine: Lie in White
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Lo Fine is Kevin O’Rourke, an indie rock instrumentalist and singer/songwriter who launched the long-running project in the late 1990’s in Northampton, Massachusetts. Earlier in the year Kevin successfully crowdfunded...
Stefan Weiner: Fearf...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
A new solo EP, Potluck, arrived earlier today via Brooklyn based artist Stefan Weiner and we were lucky enough to get to spend part of this evening with it. Its solid from beginning to end with guest accompaniments done...
Winter: The View
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Winter is Samira Winter, Nolan Eley, Kyle Oppenheimer and Ana Karina DaCosta, the members of this Boston, MA dream pop/shoegaze band started in Boston, MA – an initial collaboration between Samira Winter and Nolan Eley...
Dead Young Friends: ...
posted by Rodrigo
A very promissing advanced single from Everything You Want Destroys What Others Have, album to be released this year, after the not less brilliant Lizards, released last year. Jorge Strofer, born in Dominican Republic, the...
The Longwalls: Big M...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
For their latest 8-song EP Kowloon, Boston based band, The Longwalls found inspiration in the ancient Chinese city from which the record was named. In Hong Kong there was once a walled city, Kowloon. An ungoverned 6-acre...
Luke Temple: Someone...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Before New York’s Luke Temple gained attention with his new band Here We Go Magic (via Western Vinyl), he released his first solo CD in late 2005 ‘Hold A Match to a gasoline World’ on Mill Pond Records out...
Seth Glier: Lauralee
posted by Rodrigo
Today’s feature comes from an album called The Next Right Thing, wich could also be a comment about the artist you are listening. Seth Glier is a 21 year-old songwriter and musician from Massachusetts, who’s...
Darlingside: Good Ma...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
We recently heard Northampton, Mass band DARLINGSIDE’s song Catbird Seat on another blog and realized that we had to immediately look into their catalog, which at the moment consists of a debut EP. Luckily the band...
Tangents: Arrow in t...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Tangents is an evolution of what many bands have and will become in the 21st century; a long distance collaboration between two musicians that takes full advantage of modern technologies. Tangents is not what you may...
Technoir MA: Roundab...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Named indirectly by James Cameron, Technoir MA apparently takes the first part of its name from a nightclub in the Terminator movie, a name the director had chosen to represent the new style of movie he felt he had made. We...
Dylan in the Movies:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Brian Sullivan is the driving force behind Boston’s DYLAN IN THE MOVIES, on track to deliver their long awaited debut full-length “Josephine If You Only Knew” in Spring 2010 on American Laundromat Records. ...
Plank: Patchwork
posted by Charles Stepczyk
PLANK (formerly Plank63) was formed in the Fall of 2000 in Boston, and today we felt like zipping back to 2004 to showcase a quality track called ‘Patchwork’ by this Massachusetts based group. With the release of...