We were initially planning to go all loosey goosey (An actual official term, by the way) with live coverage of this year’s Rock & Roll Rumble which basically amounts to a maybe we will/maybe we won’t mentality following our annual preview pieces of the Boston institution. Then we took some [...]
From the moment we heard “Caffeine”, we were intrigued by the type of Rawk that Jennifer Tefft & The Strange were bringing to our ears. Timeless but tantamount to the ’90’s in a grand way at times, Tefft and company create a sound that’s both cathartic and crushing for a [...]
Bad Pop Punk songs, in our opinion, are probably one of the most throwaway and interchangeable kinds of music ever. How many bands emerged during the bigger boom of the genre during the mid-aughts and since and just delivered paint-by-numbers Pop Punk? Lots! Not naming names because we ain’t got [...]
Lowell produces some great shit. A lot of which gets lumped into the “Boston Music Scene” that does indeed tend to encompass a lot of the MA area but ya gotta give credit where credit is due and, from our experience at least, Lowell is getting to the point where [...]
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 [...]
There are some tracks you hear and for some reason or another they instantly hit. It’s the timbre of the singer’s wail sometimes or maybe the guitar tones or just an overall vibe. In the case of “Reckless Heart” from Arrows Of Athena it’s all of that and everything else [...]
