A glitzy downtempo soul-inflected hip hop promenade.

Mellow, Beatles’ psych-tinged popper.

Bruce Willis is in a strange space.

The folk punkers are back at it with a new single.

Hip hop drama don drops a medium tempo banger.

A medium tempo hip hop ambler.

A medieval banger from everyone’s favorite early music group.

Trace Mountains outlines summits at Deep Cuts.

An acoustic punk Xmas strummer.

It’s the 2001 Space Odyssey opener, dummy, at Symphony Hall.

Noise, experiments, experimental noise.

Otis Shanty celebrate a new album at Crystal Ballroom.

Tenor saxophone in the new Old School fashion.

Cosmic Americana?

Where in the world is Daniel Knox?

Greg Freeman closes out a doozy at the Amory.

Film scores are not everyone’s cup of tea.

The NEC Jazz Orchestra sings “Happy Birthday” to Charles Ives at Jordan Hall.

Kind of a rangy, dissonant mid-90s Sonic Youth-style intro.

Blue Heron goes casual at First Church of Cambridge.

Don’t lean on Aphex Twin comparisons in your writing.

What you been up to lately, Mexican Summer?

The Somerville Songwriter Sessions hit the Rooted Cafe.

A sweet lofi folk strummer.

An uptempo pop rocker straight out of the gates.

Illuminati Hotties miss the clean rhyme at The Sinclair.

Local post hardcore hootenanny takes on an Unsane cover.

Spider Water celebrates Exit Plan release at Regent Theatre.