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Music

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Porch The Fest

Somerville Porchfest 2024: not just Guster!

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Searows: “House Song”

Alec Duckart steers this ship.

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Bugslam: “Jaguar”

West Mass is the best Mass.

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Marem Ladson: “Rayo de Luna”

Artists can’t get enough of the goddamn moon.

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Sean Nicholas Savage: “Screamo”

The Bandcamp blurb describes the artist as a “cult songwriter.”

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Cavalier: “Lazaroos”

Lazaroos rose oop from the dead.

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Dan Sweeney: “Around The Ring”

A sweet and somewhat trippy folk rock ditty.

R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura: “elite mind flayer judo”

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R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura: “elite mind flayer judo”

A mellow, slightly swerved delivery in the art rap space.

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bikethrasher: “Cupcake”

A bluesy ripper off the Relaxer EP.

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randytaylor69: “jólnir”

No idea what’s going on with this artist.

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Alvvays: “Tom Verlaine”

Cast back to the self-titled debut.

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Diana Rogerson: “Falling Apart”

Experimental psych? You don’t say.

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Jet Vesper: “I Could Be Someone Else”

Funky, fresh, and frisky.

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Rich Jones: “See You All The Time”

This song must be an outlier.

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Reading Room: “Job”

A song about a commuter, by a commuter, and possibly for a commuter.

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Elephant Stone: “bae”

This band rocks a sitar live.

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Paul Karsen: “Fatal Recitals”

Hip hop with some sparkling piano samples.

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Boston Calling

Boston Calling returns to Lower Allston with a ferris wheel.

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Ty Segall: “Void”

Garage punk, sure. But the art core impulse is unmistakable here.

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Blame Shifters: “Social Creeps”

You keep waiting for the song to blast off.