#HotTakes | Week of 07.06.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 06.29.26

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

Mixtape | June 2026

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 way. Just in a regular human

Photos | Deer Tick @ Royale

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 craziness in the world right now, it always feels good to

#HotTakes | Week of 06.22.26

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 Burt

#HotTakes | Week of 06.15.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 06.08.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 06.01.26

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

Mixtape | May 2026

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 name. This mixtape lives in that feeling.

#HotTakes | Week of 05.25.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 05.18.26

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 Revivalists

Photos | Major League & Hit The Lights @ Brighton Music Hall

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 got engaged during the show! Major League, after years off the road, didn'

#HotTakes | Week of 05.11.26

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 Childers, Katie Pruitt, Ezra Bell, sym fera + Dylan LeBlanc

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#HotTakes | Week of 05.04.26

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

#Photos | Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover + Lady Lamb @ Somerville Theatre

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 it as everyone awaited their chance to hear Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover&

Mixtape | April 2026

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 the first cup of coffee and putting your

#HotTakes | Week of 04.27.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 04.20.26

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, Arlo Parks, Effie Zilch

#HotTakes | Week of 04.13.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 04.06.26

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 the Bonnevilles

#HotTakes | Week of 03.30.26

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

Mixtape | March 2026

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 that feels like it was always where we were headed. March came together around

#HotTakes | Week of 03.23.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 03.16.26

Featuring: Tove Styrke, KELS, Death Cab for Cutie, Lee Lewis, Fantastic Cat, MT Jones, Charlotte Cornfield, Crow and Gazelle, Blood Sucking Maniacs, Bonnie Montgomery & Melissa Carper, Willie Nelson, Kiki Cavazos, deary, Donovan Woods, Alan Gogoll, Rainbow Kitten Surprise