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Linnea’s Garden Get Ready To Tour, Get Down With Pride And Get Heard With New EP

Pride Month wouldn’t be the same if Linnea’s Garden didn’t have something to say in some way, shape or form. For 2026, like 2025, fans get quite a bit of Linnea’s Garden both on stage and on their preferred listening devices as a Summer tour kicks off on June 25th [...]

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Converge Drop Second Album Of 2026, Announce Second Annual Saddest Day Fest (With A Second Day Added!) And Initial Lineup

We started this thing about a week, give or take, from the June 5th release date then missed our deadline and was thinking of shelving it despite having typed a significant amount already then decided to revisit and coincide with all this new NEWS from Converge coming our way last [...]

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Singles! Sunday Junkie, “Wasted Embers”

We love it when a plan comes together. Well, not actually a plan but more wishful thinking that turns out to be something of substance. The “substance” in this case is even more new music from Sunday Junkie on the way toward their highly anticipated second LP in a Local-ish [...]

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Girl With A Hawk Come Alive On Inspired Blues/Soul/Alterna-Rawk Fusion Of Regenesis

Listening through the new album from Boston quintet Girl With A Hawk is like meeting up with an old friend. And that’s not just because the album is filled with a few tracks that have already illuminated the airwaves over the past year or so but more the timeless quality [...]

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Singles! Jennifer Tefft & The Strange, “Silver”

One of our favorite things to come from Strange Beginnings, Jennifer Tefft & The Strange’s debut LP is the diversity of styles contained, and mastered, within. One moment you’re experiencing the rawkin’-est Rawk anthem while the next hones in on Americana with the next a Bluesy Alternative anthem. Yet it [...]

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Viruette Avoid A Sophomore Slump, Come Back Strong On Second LP MERIDIAN

Viruette’s MERIDIAN was the last of a trio of local records that came our way recently that’s seriously making us reconsider our no ranking policy (On the Local side, at least) for our annual year end post as we hit the halfway point of 2026 very soon. The band sound [...]

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