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…]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! The Roland High Life, “Oh Dolours”
“What if Weezer wrote a song about the IRA?” is the question that The Roland High Life posit at you, dear readers, when presenting their upcoming new single “Oh Dolours” and all we can say in response is “Oh, The Roland High Life!” in that comedic end of a sitcom punchline kind of way with a shit eating grin proudly on our face because while we never pondered that particular scenario we can’t deny that the track is catchy AF and clever to boot.
[Read more…]Local Look ’24: The RNRF Guide To Some Of What’s Incoming From Some Of Your Favorite New England Artists
This past year we decided to do things a little differently as we approached our year end round up as we felt that a lot of local talent gets overshadowed when we do our annual year ender so instead of doing just one MASSIVE list to include everything that we thought was rad we divided the list in two so that both National and Local acts got time to bask in the glow of their 2023 achievements. With that over, and working out pretty well, we felt the need to do the same when it came to our new year preview so prepare yourselves for the inevitable informing that’s to come in this New England-based look at some of what you can expect from your local faves.
[Read more…]Singles! The Roland High Life, “Old Atlantic”
If you were not aware, The Roland High Life is BACK! Following last year’s introspective “Scotty Says”, The Boston-based band returns with what TRHL’s Thom Dunn describes as an “accidental stadium rock banger” and we couldn’t agree more!
[Read more…]Singles! The Roland High Life, “Scotty Says”
Chances are if you have an album about nerdstuff (Read: comics), are from Boston (Well, mostly), and have a name similar to the only beer Mrs. RNRF actually likes then we’re going to be into you. And wouldn’tcha know, The Roland High Life checks all those boxes!
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