Best New Music from Boston and New England
Roundup of live shows happening in Boston area soon!
Oct 6 – Alessandro Cortini, Jayden Barber at Sonia / Middle East
Mood: Electronic, synthesizers, trippy and possibly dark
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Alessandro Cortini – NATI INFINITI (Mute) / NATI INFINITI originally debuted as an immersive audio installation that ran across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa’s Fábrica da Moagem, a disused flour mill and on the release, the hypnotic work evolves across 40 minutes, mixed and mastered by Marta Salogni (Björk, Depeche Mode, Lucrecia Dalt) into five movements.
Oct.12 – Daedelus, Violet Nox, and Doug Bielmeier at Arlington Street Church
Mood: Sound and Light Experiments
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Violet Nox – Hesperia (Aumega Project / Somewherecold) / rare and immersive experimental electronic backdrops behind the stirring vocals of Noell Dorsey
Daedelus – Xenopocene (Dome of Doom) / Electronic Producer from Rhode Island that is a Wizard of Sound. He is unafraid to jump from style to style with great skill – New Music Jason
Doug Bielmeier – Music for Billionaires (New Focus Recordings) / Composer Doug Bielmeier’s fourth full length album places contemporary chamber music in a wider stylistic context that includes ambient and dance electronica
Nov. 3 – Dystopiate / Psycho / Burt Bacharach / Goon Platoon at O’Briens
Mood: heavy crust punk grindcore d-beat loud fast
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Dystopiate – Terminal Dissonance (Fish Prints) / merges the ferocity of d-beat hardcore with the dark intensity of thrash, psych, and black metal – Idioteq
Psycho – Vulture Church (Selfmadegod) / furious punk-infused grindcore mayhem, deploying eighteen tracks in under thirty-four minutes
Burt Bacharach / Captain Three Leg Spilt / Fred – Guitar / Earth Crumbling Rumbles / Tim – Drums / Screams / Nightmare
Goon Platoon – Keep On Rotting in the Free World / Inspired by the absurdity and misery of the modern times, these knuckleheads set out to create interesting and intense blends of vicious and delicious hardcore punk rock.
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