Welp. We kinda backed ourselves into a corner doing a Week 1 Rock & Roll Rumble live recap (Read it here) and thinking it was possible to skip doing the same for Week 2, right? Look, we’re not going to sugarcoat it for you. You missed some gems if you decided to stay home when the Preliminary Rounds of the 2024 Rock & Roll Rumble from Boston Emissions wrapped up, okay? And that’s alright since you have us looking out for you in a grand way with this live rundown of what happened across Nights 4, 5, & 6 of the annual Rawk Fest. So with that, sit back, relax, and let us regale you some more of what went down over at Middle East Upstairs in the hopes that you’ll be purchasing your tickets to the Semis at Sonia as soon as you finish reading! Do we have a deal? And again, links to our preview posts in the corresponding headers so you can grab all the pertinent music and more from these killer local artists.
[Read more…]Singles! DiabloGato, “Lost Highway”
Boston + Rockabilly= Amazing?!?! Who’da thunk that? Well, obviously DiabloGato did with their robust Rawk that astounds by aurally awarding your earholes with the sounds you’re treating it to! Did that make sense? Well, neither does David Lynch to many which is quite the coincidence as DiabloGato has chosen that particular auteur to pay tribute to in their latest video for the aptly titled “Lost Highway”!
[Read more…]RNRF X Rock & Roll Rumble: Week 1 Preliminary Round Live Recap
We were initially planning to go all loosey goosey (An actual official term, by the way) with live coverage of this year’s Rock & Roll Rumble which basically amounts to a maybe we will/maybe we won’t mentality following our annual preview pieces of the Boston institution. Then we took some time to process what we witnessed and thought “Oh, fuck it!” and decided to dive in with one big mega post of all of Week 1’s treasures (Hyperlinked headers to our preview posts so you can find all the pertinent band links and music). So enjoy? And SPOILER ALERT: We will be mentioning the winners here (Dubbed in the appropriate regional dialect as “Winnahs”) in case you haven’t had a chance to catch up on your DVR yet.
[Read more…]Singles! Jennifer Tefft & The Strange, “Going Out”
From the moment we heard “Caffeine”, we were intrigued by the type of Rawk that Jennifer Tefft & The Strange were bringing to our ears. Timeless but tantamount to the ’90’s in a grand way at times, Tefft and company create a sound that’s both cathartic and crushing for a new Alternative that continues on latest release “Going Out”.
[Read more…]Singles! We Demand Parachutes, “Cheerful Coping”
Bad Pop Punk songs, in our opinion, are probably one of the most throwaway and interchangeable kinds of music ever. How many bands emerged during the bigger boom of the genre during the mid-aughts and since and just delivered paint-by-numbers Pop Punk? Lots! Not naming names because we ain’t got time to negativify (Not a word) the already aggrieved parties but in terms of meaningful and memorable it’s rare that stadium-ready Rawkers like Green day, blink 182 or even Turnstile to an extent are even a thing much less thrive to this day.
[Read more…]RoseR Is Ready To (Rock & Roll) Rumble On Steps
Lowell produces some great shit. A lot of which gets lumped into the “Boston Music Scene” that does indeed tend to encompass a lot of the MA area but ya gotta give credit where credit is due and, from our experience at least, Lowell is getting to the point where there’s a need for a “Lowell Music Scene” category brought into the convo. RoseR’s latest is another reason for that.
[Read more…]RNRF X Rock & Roll Rumble: Week 2, Night 5
The end is in sight! Of the Preliminary Round, that is. But before we get to the end of this particular round, we’d love to introduce you to the four fresh new faces (Well, more than just 4 cuz BANDS) who’ll be getting their Rumble on during the penultimate Preliminary night:
[Read more…]Singles! Arrows Of Athena, “Reckless Heart”
There are some tracks you hear and for some reason or another they instantly hit. It’s the timbre of the singer’s wail sometimes or maybe the guitar tones or just an overall vibe. In the case of “Reckless Heart” from Arrows Of Athena it’s all of that and everything else under the sun that we couldn’t think to say. And if new single “Reckless Heart” is just a smidge of what Arrows Of Athena has up its’ collective sleeves then full-length The Ghost Archives has a LOT to live up to when it arrives later this month.
[Read more…]RNRF X Rock & Roll Rumble 2024: Week 2, Night 4
Week 2 of the Rock & Roll Rumble starts NOW! Well, for us and in the interest of this posting it does but in actuality it starts on Thursday, April 11th back at Middle East Upstairs with the first 4 of 12 fresh bands scheduled to appear during the final Preliminary Rounds. Are you sad that the rounds are almost over? Have a favorite yet? Well, here’s some more fodder to confuse and confound all those decisions you thought you already made:
[Read more…]Why Try? Emerge From Chrysalis On Enlightening Honeymoon
It never gets old when a local outfit we were into or covered previously (Alternately, Into AND covered) make a record that showcases how much they’ve grown and generally excel at their craft. Take Boston’s Why Try? for example (And also because that’s who we’re reviewing today) who we last featured around the release of the late 2020 record Just Fine and covers all of that sentiment and then some with an album like Honeymoon that just feels like it’s on the cusp of some greatness.
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