We have no problem declaring that the only ukulele-driven artist that we’d ignore every open streaming tab and currently-in-the-process-of-editing drafts for is Boston’s own Travels With Brindle (And believe you me, you’d be surprised at the amount of ukulele-centric music we DO get). Being local is definitely a bonus but [...]
We’re big fans of fuzzy Rawk at the RNRF offices especially when done well and ESPECIALLY if it happens to be both (Done well + Fuzzy Rawk). Massachusetts’ DnA’s Evolution ticks off both those boxes on the regular and do it gloriously on their latest full-length, Curious of Nothing, which [...]
Damndest make our kind of music. The kind that’s Synth flavored, anthemic, driving, and just all around moving. It’s a kind of modern Shoegaze Post-Rawk in the vein of Tombstones in Their Eyes mixed with Bear In Heaven’s sparkling Electro tendencies and Telekinesis’ brand of Indie anthem-making. And we dig [...]
While seeing Every Time I Die implode in a very public way at the tail end of 2021 was awful to experience as a fan, the one shining light was that we’re now left with two ETID-adjacent projects making their way to our collective earholes within a month of each [...]
The absolute best video for the end of summer to accompany what is easily the absolute best song to herald the oncoming 2024 Spooky Szn, Parlour Bells’ “Slasher Movie Weather” is a haunting and harrowing aural and visual journey… but also a fun and sexy one? Trust us, it makes [...]
We know what you’re thinking: Lovina Falls is still doing the rounds on last year’s brilliant debut full-length Calculating the Age of Our Descent and practically just released the very Mistle Thrush leanings of new single “Tragedy” so there’s no way that the purveyors of Boston’s modern Baroque Pop movement [...]
