Best New Music From Boston and New England of 2017 – Songs 71-87

Sweeps

3 Hours

Taken from: Places and Spaces
Label(s): Vinyldigital.de
Social Media/Web: Instagram | Spotify | Soundcloud | Youtube
Further Reading: Le Gros Tas de Zik
See also: Dunes


Dr. Quandary

The Boy Who Went to War

Taken from: Jukebox Buddha Instrumentals
Label(s): World Around Records
Social Media/Web: TwitterFacebook | Soundcloud
Further Reading: World Around Records


Honey Cutt

Weather Girl

Taken from: Sunny, F.L. 
Label(s): Unsigned / Independent
Social Media/Web: TwitterFacebook | Instagram | Spotify
Further Reading: Global Texan Chronicles


Medical Maps

All God’s Children Got Guns

Taken from: Soft on Crime
Label(s): Unsigned / Independent
Social Media/Web: Facebook


Michael Barrett

F-Train

Taken from: Brooklyn
Label(s): Planing Seeds Records
Social Media/Web: none
Further Reading: Planting Seeds Records


Milk

Too High to Drive

Taken from: Horsetown Threshold
Label(s): Midnight Werewolf Records
Social Media/Web: TwitterFacebook
Further Reading: Atwood Magazine | New NoiseCircuit Sweet | WithGuitars


Exit Order

Seed of Hysteria

Taken from: Seed of Hysteria
Label(s): Side Two
Social Media/Web: none
Further Reading: Sorry State Records


Future Spa

Tape Smasher

Taken from: Tape Smasher
Label(s): Unsigned / Independent
Social Media/Web: Facebook
Further Reading: The Deli


Rivener

Tsardana

Taken from: S/T
Label(s): Twin Lakes Records / These Are Not Records
Social Media/Web: Facebook
Further Reading: The Big Takeover


Pumpkin Bread

Factor’s Row

Taken from: S/T
Label(s): Unsigned / Independent
Social Media/Web: Facebook | Instagram | Youtube Official Site
Further Reading: The Front Porch


Junius

Telepaths & Pyramids

Taken from: Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light
Label(s): The Mylene Sheath / Prosthetic Records / Translation Loss Records
Social Media/Web: Facebook
Further Reading: Bearded Gentlemen Music


What Cheer? Brigade

Iahabibi

Taken from: You Can’t See Inside of Me
Label(s): Don Giovanni Records
Social Media/Web: TwitterFacebook
Further Reading: PVDFEST


Hayley Thompson-King

Lot’s Wife

Taken from: Psychotic Melancholia
Label(s): Hard to Kill Records
Social Media/Web: TwitterFacebook | Instagram | YoutubeOfficial Site
Further Reading: America Standard Time


Dzo-nga

To the Great Salt Water

Taken from: The Sachem’s Tales
Label(s): Avantgade Music / Wolfspell Records / Sevengill Records
Social Media/Web: Facebook
Further Reading: The Sound Projector


Modern Painters

Reeling

Taken from: S/T
Label(s): Unsigned / Independent
Social Media/Web: Facebook
Further Reading: The Deli


Elder

The Failing Veil

Taken from: Reflections of a Floating World
Label(s): Headspin Records / Burning World Records / Stickman Records
Social Media/Web: Facebook
Further Reading: More Fuzz


The Rupert Selection

Sundogs

Taken from: Modern Playground Medicine
Label(s): Unsigned / Independent
Social Media/Web: Facebook
Further Reading: Prog Archives

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