#HotTakes | Week of 08.31.26

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 Build

Mixtape | August 2026

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 sure yet, moving anyway. So I leaned into it. It

#HotTakes | Week of 08.24.26

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, Ian Noe, Miko Marks, Feral Foster

#HotTakes | Week of 08.17.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 08.10.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 08.03.26

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

Hippo Campus Somehow Blew Up And Stayed A Secret At The Same Time

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 of people, that's just how the

Mixtape | July 2026

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 around Home Depot trying to price out a life he doesn't have yet.

#HotTakes | Week of 07.20.26

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

#HotTakes | Week of 07.13.26

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, STRANGE LOT

#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

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#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

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#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

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#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

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#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