September had death on the brain, apparently. I didn't plan it, but "Death Drive," "The Price and the Cost," and "Death's Commuter Blues" all landed in the pool around the same time, and once Eliza Edens...

Featuring: Willi Carlisle, Lime Garden, Lee Emi, FRIEDA STAR, Skinshape, Mei Semones, Hudson Freeman, Blu Miller, Grey DeLisle (ft. Dave Alvin)

Featuring: Eliza Edens, Ethan Regan, Jonah Smith ft. Family Company, Rayland Baxter, Frank Mastra, James Felice, Miko Marks, Feral Foster, Prima Queen, CHVRCHES

Featuring: Caroline Rose, DAVIE, Stephen Wilson Jr., Kyshona, Palmyra, Slimdan, Thee Sinseers, Jake Klar, Sylvan Esso

Featuring: Cooper Kenward, Frank Mastra, Ratboys, Sports Team, Valerie June, The War On Drugs, The Lumineers, Margo Cilker

Featuring: Sondre Lerche, Junior Pro, The Quahogs, Nathan Evans Fox, Sawyer Hill, Eliza Edens, Oscar Lindsey, DEAR TASH, RIO KOSTA, Grey DeLisle, Aaron Frazer, Tyler Lyle, Dent May, Margaret Glaspy, Medium...

Eventually Sure This one's uncertain from the jump, and that's on purpose. Started pulling songs I couldn't stop playing this month and realized most of them were sitting in that in between space, not...

Featuring: Willi Carlisle, Twisted Teens, Lee Emi, Rayland Baxter, Liam Kazar, THAO (ft. Neko Case), Skinshape, Kate Bollinger, Neighbour Club, Dead Gowns, The Jayhawks, The Talking Hearts, Grumpy, CMAT,...

Featuring: Squirrel Flower, Old Crow Medicine Show, Blythe Woods, Pug Johnson, Brother Bird, Friko, Jack Larkin, Taylor Ashton, Wishy

Featuring: Imperial Teen, Riley Downing, Way Dynamic, Kam Franklin (ft. Kevin Morby), Margo Cilker, The Avalanches (ft. Portraits Of Tracy), Jawdropped, Slimdan, Pokey LaFarge, Palmyra

Featuring: Rayland Baxter, Israel Nash, The Suitcase Junket, Jonathan Something, JP Harris, Royal Blood, Castle Rat, Jawdropped, Jacob Jeffries (ft. Vulfmon)

Featuring: Imperial Teen, Riley Downing, Way Dynamic, Kam Franklin (ft. Kevin Morby), Margo Cilker, The Avalanches (ft. Portraits Of Tracy), Jawdropped, Slimdan, Pokey LaFarge, Palmyra

I think about that a lot honestly, how a band can have a song sitting at 137 million streams and still feel like something you have to put people onto. Landmark was my way in, same as it was for a ton...

Somewhere around the fourth or fifth pass through this month's pile I noticed half these songs are about money. Cheap beer, twenty dollar bills, imitation wood grain, diamond rings, a guy literally wandering...

Featuring: Ruby of Thanks, Ian Kieffer, Alex Lambert, Mama's Broke, Dunsun

Featuring: Riley Downing, Palmyra, Willi Carlisle, The Suitcase Junket, Tyler Ballgame, Jake Xerxes Fussell, The Bird Calls, Labrinth, Fantastic Negrito, The Linda Lindas & Hayley Williams

Featuring: Son Lux, Wishy, Slow Pulp, The Womack Sisters, Madi Diaz, Django Django, Steven Dayvid McKellar

Featuring: Troy Mercy, Jaco Jaco, Dinosaur Jr.. GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite, Kate Prascher, JP Harris,

Some months you know exactly what you're doing. This isn't one of those months. This one is more like okay, what am I actually doing, what do I actually want, what does any of this mean. Not in a crisis...

Bringing that good old Rhode Island charm with Irish roots to the Royale, Deer Tick proved that their music ages like a fine wine. The crowd couldn't get enough and kept asking for more! With all the...

Featuring: Devon Gilfillian, Medium Build, Fruit Bats, Sam and Louise Sullivan, Riley Downing, Jim James, Pokey LaFarge, The Jayhawks, M. Woodroe, Sad Daddy, Nicole Atkins, Alela Diane, Aubory Bugg, Tré...

Featuring: Honest Charlie, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Kamran Khan, FATHERS, dawn richard (feat. durand bernarr), Brother Bird, Kelly Doyle

Featuring: The Family, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Alex Amen, Elanor Moss, Wishy, Interpol, Mike D, Jack White, Taxi Girls, Gareth Dunlop, THAO, Kam Franklin, Caiola

Featuring: Ellie Heath, LEENALCHI, The Afghan Whigs, RYMAN, Sad Daddy, Stephanie Babirak, Fenne Lily, Deer Tick, Cutscene, Margaret Glaspy

May or May Not May is a weird month. The weather finally cooperates and instead of feeling relieved you just feel itchy. Like something's supposed to happen and it hasn't yet. Waiting on a thing you ...

May or May Not May is a weird month. The weather finally cooperates and instead of feeling relieved you just feel itchy. Like something's supposed to happen and it hasn't yet. Waiting on a thing you can't...

Featuring: DBA!, Evangeline & Vulfmon, Effie Zilch, Johnny Delaware, Yebba, Alela Diane, Babe Rainbow, Mary in the Junkyard, Prof, Jesper Lindell, Joel Plaskett Emergency, The Tallest Man On Earth

Featuring: The Deslondes, Andrew Sa, Jaco Jaco, Damon Brock, Jesse Welles, Petey USA, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Kacey Musgraves (ft. Miranda Lambert), Josiah and the Bonnevilles, Hiss Golden Messenger,...

The unmatched energy of FOUR bands in one night (Major League and Hit The Lights with openers Rematch and Public Works). The show was filled with so much passion, punk, and, of course, love... a couple...

Featuring: Caroline Rose, Sawyer Hill, Center Mid, GENER8ION (ft. Yung Lean), Vacations, Sondre Lerche, Alex Amen, Princess Goes, Lee Lewis, Fruit Bats, Steve Earle, Grey & Greene, Senora May and Tyler...

Featuring: Low Cut Connie, Alela Diane, Father John Misty, Kurt Vile, of Montreal, Deer Tick, The Womack Sisters, Kamran Khan, Fantastic Negrito, Heidi Curtis, Ben Chapman

There was a kind of excited energy in the room Sunday night that you don’t always feel anymore outside of a few intimate venues. The Somerville Theatre had a current of anticipation running through...

The First Saturday There's a specific day that happens every April. You don't plan for it, it just shows up. You wake up and the window's already open and the air smells different and somewhere between...

Featuring: Dana and Alden ft. Mei Semones, Hiss Golden Messenger, Arc Iris (ft. WILLOW), Luluc, Death Cab for Cutie, Crow and Gazelle, Fai Laci, Mon Rovîa, Adeem the Artist

Featuring: Spencer Cullum, This Is Lorelei. ft. Waxahatchee, Golden Everything, Ellen Froese, Big Guy & The Very Large Men, Fruit Bats, Mock Media, Library Card, The Deslondes, Tyler Lyle, The Midnight,...

Featuring: Shakey Graves, Andrew Sa, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Carly King, Jaco Jaco, Kevin Morby, Hunter Morris / Mountain of Youth, Spacemoth, Prima Queen, Broken Social Scene, Stephen Sanchez, GREY & GREENE

Featuring: Pond, Olive Klug, Alex Amen, Kurt Vile, Biribá Union, Cactus Lee, The Huntress and Holder of Hands, Emory Duncan, Hayes Carll & Corb Lund, Deer Tick, CS Cleaners, Fantastic Cat, Josiah and...

Featuring: Elizabeth and the Catapult, India Ramey, Nic Panken, Alela Diane, Mr. Dinkles, Luisa Wilson, Devon Gilfillian, Jack White

Every month I try to make something that moves. Not a mood board. Not background noise. Something with a shape to it — a beginning that means something, a middle that earns your patience, and an ending...

Featuring: Hiss Golden Messenger, Big Harp, Yttling Jazz & Bobby Gillespie, Alela Diane, Fruit Bats, The California Honeydrops, The Deslondes

Featuring: Tove Styrke, KELS, Death Cab for Cutie, Melissa Carper, Lee Lewis, Fantastic Cat, MT Jones, Charlotte Cornfield, Crow and Gazelle, Blood Sucking Maniacs, Bonnie Montgomery & Melissa Carper,...

This was one of those nights where it was obvious the band had already outgrown the room.

Featuring: Deer Tick, Anjimile, Francis of Delirium, Thundercat ft. WILLOW, Cat Clyde, Dan Labich, Nic Panken, Kacey Musgraves, Mei Semones ft. John Roseboro, Andrew Sa, Hunter Morris / Mountain of Youth,...

Featuring: Surfbort, Alex Amen, Deloyd Elze, Joey Quiñones, Melanie Baker, Banshee Tree, Gia Margaret, Kiki Cavazos, Dida Pelled, Gia Margaret, Metric

Featuring: Devon Gilfillian, King Tuff, Tenille Townes (ft. Lori McKenna), Monster Rally, Buck Meek, Elizabeth and The Catapult, India Ramey, Nathan Evans Fox, Courtney Barnett, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Soda...

I absolutely overworked this one. There’s no grand concept, I just kept dragging songs up and down like I was trying to solve a puzzle that didn’t need solving. At some point I realized the only real...

From screen to the stage, these five guys definitely know how to get the crowd going. As they stepped onto the stage in total darkness, the venue filled with screams of excitement. These guys are true...

The title came from a conversation. I was talking with a friend about “Problem Solver” – slimdan, and he described it as “indie therapy rock.” I immediately told him I was stealing that.  It...

January wasn’t about a theme. It wasn’t about one sound. It was about how these songs felt next to each other. I kept rearranging it until it felt like a set. It opens with Cory Wong and Cody Fry’s “...