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Future Finds: The Rock And Roll Fables Guide To (Some Of) What’s On The Way Locally In 2026

Of the four major/mega end of the year lists we put together (2 separate 2025 recaps/2 separate 2026 previews), the local 2026 one is hand’s down the easiest. Or so we thought. We don’t do rankings here and it’s way more loose but, par for course with our batting average (Look, kids! It’s sportsball references!), […]

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Youth Code Arrive Again With Angry Aural Atmosphere Across Yours, With Malice

Many, many moons ago following a particularly long lull between proper Massive Attack releases (About 6 years this time out), an EP was finally released by the Trip-Hop legends and we remember clearly after hearing Ritual Spirit declaring to no one in particular that the 4 songs on that release [...]

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RNRF X Salem Horror Fest 8: “Official Selections- Shorts & Interludes”, Safe

David Yorke does it again with another entry for the 2025 edition of Salem Horror Fest and, like Yorke’s other short showing during the festival (Nervous Ellie! Read our review here), Safe is an unexpected treat in the Horror genre that surely puts the writer/director/creative in the running to take [...]

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Singles! Battlemode, “Game Over”

Massachusetts’ own progenitors of bleeps and boops (Not really), Battlemode, is ready for their close up on May 23rd during this year’s Boston Calling when the chiptune trio (Really) is scheduled to open up the Orange Stage and hopefully not blow the roof off the joint (Outdoors, but still…) before [...]

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RNRF X Salem Horror Fest 8: “Official Selections- Shorts & Interludes”, Nervous Ellie

While Christoper Landon’s Drop is giving you big screen first dates from hell right now, David Yorke’s Nervous Ellie offers an alternative on a smaller scale that is just as thrilling, if not more, with an ending you will NOT see coming. Ellie (Kelsey Cooke) is a nervous dater. Like, [...]

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Singles! The Chelsea Curve, “Jamie C’Mon (Andy Lewis Remix)/Hey Sah-Lo-Ney”

The two songs that make up the double A-side that is the Chelsea Curve’s latest release, and first for Rum Bar Records, just oozes cool. The Mod Pop mainstays of the Boston scene made up of Linda Pardee (Vocals, Bass), Tim Gillis (Guitars, Vocals), and newest addition Bruce Caporal (Drums, [...]

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Singles! Tequila Sirens, “Orcas”

According to the press release for the new single from Somerville’s Tequila Sirens off upcoming full-length Impostors (Due in June), “‘Orcas’ explores deeply personal themes of disillusionment and the desire to disengage from a world that feels increasingly chaotic”, and we feel it’s got the sounds to match in this [...]

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