The Small Fries
Intimate dives can make for the best music experiences. Capacity 250 or less.
Atwood’s Tavern
877 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02141
The Burren
247 Elm St, Somerville, MA 02144
Cantab Lounge
738 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Charlie’s Kitchen
10 Eliot St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Club Passim
47 Palmer Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Deep Cuts
21 Main St, Medford, MA 02155
Faces
50 Pleasant St, Malden, MA 02148
The Jungle
6 Sanborn Ct, Somerville, MA 02143
The Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Lizard Lounge
1667 Mass. Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Midway Cafe
3496 Washington St, Boston, MA 02130
Notch Brewery (Brighton)
525 Western Ave, Brighton, MA 02135
O'Brien's Pub
3 Harvard Ave, Allston, MA 02134
State Park
15 Hampshire St Building 300, Cambridge, MA 02139
The Rockwell
255 Elm St, Somerville, MA 02144
The Square Root
2 Corinth St, Boston, MA 02131
Toad
1912 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140
A medieval banger from everyone’s favorite early music group.
Go back to the future with Nighttime’s time-traveling wyrd folk spectacle Keeper Is The Heart.
“Fusion” is a genre-descriptor that is constantly on the verge of utter uselessness.
The gazey, dreampop excursion takes us into a languid interior dimension of emotional transcendence.
Kitner tells the story of life lived at the tail end of a boozy buzz, with another night of debauchery on the way.
Twen charts a course across the sound waves of trans-Atlantic pop on their LP One Stop Shop.
Ambient is no longer the province of purely theoretical sound experiments. Enter Iceblink.
A gooey, 12-stack musical layer cake, shotgun-blasted with rainbow sprinkles by a laughing clown.
NNAMDÏ ghosts his songs before they ghost him. But you’ll love Please Have A Seat anyway.
Already Dead remembers punk’s roots in political dissidence on their latest LP My Collar Is Blue.
Makaya McCraven makes the old new again with the soulful and cinematic LP In These Times.
Pet Fox pulls off a few tricks on their label debut LP A Face In Your Life.
The underlying musical and philosophical idea of Kal Mark’s latest full-length My Name Is Hell is trotted out upfront like the proud thesis of an undergraduate Lit paper.
It takes two experimental musicians to TANGO on Never Stop Texting Me. Truly Autotune Never Gets Old.
Loz Goddard’s latest full-length Balloon Tree Road honors the Madchester tradition with a club-ready contribution to 21st-century breakbeat science.
Offering offers taut, trim punk and post-punk rockery with a minimum of fuss from Green/Blue.
Warm Chris finds Aldous Harding officially planted within the airy and sometimes arid soil of an indie pop career.
Wilder Maker plays host at a musicians’ salon on their new full-length LP Male Models.
The Somerville Songwriter Sessions hit the Rooted Cafe.
Illuminati Hotties miss the clean rhyme at The Sinclair.
Andrew Stern; interview with DIY venue 4th Wall organizers; and more.
