#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

#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

Photos | Buffalo Traffic Jam + Sons of Habit @ The Sinclair

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

#HotTakes | Week of 03.09.26

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, Maria Taylor ft. Conor Oberst, Kevin Morby, Arlo Parks

#HotTakes | Week of 03.02.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 02.23.26

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 Blonde, Noah Gundersen, Jonny Fritz, Valley Boy, Tyler Lyle, Jessye DeSilva (ft. Butch Walker)

Mixtape | February 2026

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 rule was “does this feel good right here?” and that was

Photos | The Runarounds @ House of Blues

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 stars!

Mixtape | Indie Therapy Rock

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 was too good, and i've been circling the playlist for a week or two now.