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25 in ’25: A List Of (Mostly) 25 Albums That Were Listened To Over And Over And Over Some More In The RNRF Offices To Distract From The Outside World In 2025.

2025 was a weird year personally for us and even weirder music-wise! We thought we had our Top 5 of the year locked down by June then something rolled up to our digital inbox in late summer and completely floored us/threw off the early ending we thought we had for this list (Hell, we’re STILL […]

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Singles! Drive-Thru Facelift, “Control/Call Him Daddy”

Pitch us an artist that’s not only in one of our most favorite genres (Industrial!) but also from one of, if not our, favorite places (Um, Boston should be the obvious answer here) and it’s pretty much guaranteed we’ll clear some headspace at the least to dive in. It, of [...]

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Osis Fuse Post-Punk With Classic Orange County And DC Styles For A Fun And Frenetic Collection Of Songs On New EP

OC/DC was what we thought Osis was called… but as it turns out it’s a sound, a movement, a feeling! And if Boston’s Osis is the sound of that feeling then the feeling is raw, unbridled modern Punk Rawk raucousness. Or, if you want to be literal about it all, [...]

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Nicholas Pentabona: A Rock And Roll Fables Conversation

“We wanted to be confidently eccentric.” If you’ve been a fan of the Boston Music Scene for some time, especially the heavier side of things, then chances are you at least know of BEDTIMEMAGIC. And if you’ve been to a show in the area, not even necessarily a heavy one, [...]

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RNRF Local Look ’25 (Or how we learned to do nothing but re-listen to everything we’ve already reviewed over the past 360+ days in a span of a few days)

Y’know what? We did this to ourselves. We’re not complaining at all. It’s just when we’re hours upon hours into this thing then we wanna know who exactly is to blame. And it’s us! But let’s backtrack for a sec, okay? We expanded our year end list a few years [...]

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Singles! Adios Fatso, “Gopro, Not Again!”

Rabble rousin’ soundtrack? Check. Killer chorus? Indeed! Plenty of sonic twists and turns to keep things interesting/separate from the pack? You betcha!! Sounds like Adios Fatso is back at it with another solid symphony of slammin’ sonic excess on latest release, “Gopro, Not Again!”

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Joshua David Thayer Makes Some Modern Malkmus, Tweedy On Grand Alternative Folk Of So Little, Close To Nothing

More often than not, we miss out on perfect timing to cover an artist or album and are just waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce once again with some appropriate posts. Joshua David Thayer is one of those artists that’s been on our radar for some time yet eluded [...]

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