100 Great Music Singles From Boston and New England of 2016 – 1-10

Skyjelly – Subway Rider
Sometimes we all need to face the snake that was abandoned for far too long on the subway tracks

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Cody Mallet & The Austin Powers – To the BBC
Even better than the real thing (with apologies to U2)

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Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys – Dull Boy
Redrum she wrote, as Mummy and Daddy’s screams were drowned out by the clacking of typewriter keys

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Happy Little Clouds – Beneath
Raunchy grooves and bastard blues buried beneath the killer guitar licks

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Lady Pills – Secondhand Trash
This is how it ends

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Empty Vessels – Two Skeletons
Another (and no less morbid) way to end it

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Earth Heart – Demons
A dream of being possessed by something giant and sweaty

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Krem ôn’ Wo͝ol – Milk Wraith
Dark and long train (with apologies to Underworld) carrying fragments of chaos to nowhere

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Ryan Huber – Etonian
Clickety clack typewriter rhythms doing their wonderful song and dance

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Tin Flowers –  Searchers
Joy Division dancing to the happy beat