Music
Enumclaw: “Cowboy Bebop”
Enumclaw flaunts the pitchy vocals with a kind of J Mascis lilt on our highlighted track.
Nyeusi Loe: “Fly Talking”
Lynn’s Nyeusi Loe takes inspiration from the visual vistas of movies like Shottas.
Korine: “Burn the World”
Philadelphia’s Korine are at their most fun when they bring the new wave synth instrumentals.
Ezra Cohen: “Catchin’ Up”
Rocking the apostrophe in place of the dropped-’g’ always feels like a dicey proposition.
The Dead Friends Club: “B.A.T.S.”
The Dead Friends Club can go in a lot of different directions.
Pile’s Fair In Love and War
Pile celebrates the All Fiction record release at the old Somerville Armory.
Alex Walton: “Cordelia”
Boston’s Alex Walton crafts songs with punk rock textures and the soul of vintage pop.
Helena Celle: “I Did It My Way”
Helena Celle delivers electronica that rocks analog grittiness between the bloops and bleeps.
Landowner: “Phantom Vibrations”
Holyoke’s Landowner delivers straight ahead Krautrock-influenced post punkery.
Paula Rae Gibson: “I Found You Eating Colors”
London’s Paula Rae Gibson crafts a haunting vocal landscape.
Battlemode: “Die Alone”
Boston’s Battlemode is an inexhaustible fount of energy and creative chutzpah.
Square Loop, Allston Loop
Square Loop completed the Allston Loop on the last show of the first leg of its tour.
Stranger Still: “I, Icarus”
Toronto’s Stranger Still is wyrd folke wandering in poetic landscapes.
Winkler: “Call It Good Times”
Boston’s Winkler delivers a bright and bouncy sound on “Call It Good Times.”
June McDoom: “Babe, You Light Me Up”
June McDoom’s self-titled EP is proof that chillwave nostalgia is a market force.