Since there is no V-Day mixtape from 2015, IHRTN decided to make up for it by posting favorite mixes by other bloggers/writers A.V. Club AVQ&A: Valentine’s Day Mixtapes Q: What handful …
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Dosh – Naoise (Live at K) I remember when I used to get heavily into anticon. I loved the music for it’s inventiveness and its lo-fi, sometimes dark aesthetic. But …
Here enters one C. M. Slenko with an album full of beautiful, somber songs. Slenko is on the Sioux Trails label, and like his labelmate that releases as Galápagos Finches …
When a band comes along called Skyjelly, you generally can’t help but take note. A fourpiece of Skyjelly Jones, Scott ‘Sheik’ Levesque, Dave Melanson, and Eric Hudson, Skyjelly deal in …
Big Star – Jesus Christ (picked by The Modern Folk) Run-DMC – Christmas in Hollis (picked by RST Custom Effects) Something Sneaky – The Christmas EP (picked by RST Custom …
Tom Waits – Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis (Blue Valentine / Asylum/Elektra / 1978) Culturcide – Santa Claus Was My Lover / Depressed Christmas (Self-Released / 1986) Morphine …
As if the recent deluge of compilations from Utech, Relapse, Saint Marie and Post-Trash wasn’t enough, here are two more great compilations/mixtapes/samplers to check out (this time mostly focused on …
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New non-scuzzy/non-skronky sounds from denizens of Boston and Massachusetts – folk, pop, blues, alternative and more. James Discovers – Lebanon – experimental pop from Mario Epstein, one half of Somerville …
Second volume exploring non-skronky/non-scuzzy sounds out of Boston / Mass – folk, blues, alternative, pop and more. Listen to volume 1 (featuring Transient Cities, Love Love, Andrew Geano, Valentin Prince and …
There is no shortage of festivals promoting psychedelic/experimental music on the East Coast – Terrastock, Deep Heaven Now and Boston Fuzzstival, to name just a few. And where there’s smoke there’s …
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