A piquant hybrid of jazz and Mongolian folk.

Stompboxing guitar fun.

A noisy, banging buffet of rock n roll brouhaha.

A collab joint creates an alt folk popper.

What’s up with this Julie?

Music meets mass protest in the streets of Istanbul.

Everyone gets to sing! Some of them scream too!

Natalie Dietrich gets down with her bad self at Lilypad.

Ornate. Baroque. I’d call it “rococo” too but…

Fust uncorks the (alt) country at Deep Cuts.

A gentle acoustic picker.

At some point you just gotta release the album, right?

Rebecca Cline Quartet doesn’t need a definite article at Mad Monkfish.

Some kind of glass bottle percussion keeps this train rolling.

Oof, I feel the message at the heart of this song.

We’re taking a steamy soak with a Burlington songsmith.

We’ve got a little 10-year anniversary on our hands.

Medium-tempo hip hop trotter.

Rock with a little funk, a little groove.

One 23:59 live take.

Rock n roll riffery. All the ‘R’s!

A powerful piano-driven sparkler.

Stereophonic sound!

Class consciousness, dad rock: together at last.

An emo popper that starts strong out of the gates.

Sounds like a fucking nightmare.

Washed out, washed right.

Neal Francis / Improvement Movement. Photo galleries by Julia Levine.