Freak Scene #66: Gold Dust Are Reborn on 'In the Shade of the Living Light'
Plus, Teen Driver's new EP 'veers toward agit-prop,' but so what?
Freak Scene #65: Splendid Torch Light a New Path on 'Icon'
Plus, the latest album from Smith alumna Merrill Garbus's band Tune-Yards makes the revolution danceable, even as a bunch of emotionally stunted dipshits in Washington do their best to gut the arts.
Freak Scene #64: The Giant's Harp Rein in the Jams
Plus, Mitch Linker has a new EP after two years of musical inactivity.
Freak Scene #63: Bunnies Go Wild on 'Horror Spectrum'
Plus, "Udugirl" Janelle Burdell has a new track, and the Parlor Room Collective's Uplifting Queer Voices programming is only just getting started.
Freak Scene #62: Sour City Tapes Rides Cassette Revival
Plus, Amherst's Scott Hsu goes bilingual on his latest single.
Freak Scene #61: Kalliope Jones Claim Their Space on 'Carnivorous'
Plus, the excellent new single from Easthampton band Lost Film.
Freak Scene #60: Perennial Rock All Day and All of the Night
Plus, Tim Eriksen's influence on Alison Krauss & Union Station, and Ken Cormier hits the airwaves
Freak Scene #59: The Lucky Shots Team Up on 'Second Tongue'
Plus, Michael Larocca proffers a lot of drums, and this weekend's James Velvet tribute concert.
Freak Scene #58: Drifting North Converge on 'First Harvest' EP
Plus, Ciarra Fragale's new single "Jazzercise Is on TV" and a quick dip into Ted Leo's "Shake the Sheets"
Freak Scene #57: Max Wareham Has Cause to Exclaim on 'Dagommit!'
Plus, a new bar is moving into the Majestic space, and a non-update about the Calvin Theatre.
Freak Scene #56: Kris Delmhorst Faces Specters on 'Ghosts in the Garden'
Plus, Taxidermists don't change a thing on their latest, and Perennial have new music!
Freak Scene #55: Your Ticket to the Moon(s)
Recent music from Moon Hollow and the Moon Shells, along with a pointed song from Peter Mulvey.
Freak Scene #54: Storm the Ohio Return After 15 Years
Plus, new music from Mal Devisa and Reale Wolfe.
Freak Scene #53: Outro Ponder Migration on 'Broken Promise' EP
Plus, a new LP from the Will Call, and a modest suggestion for Fountains of Wayne
Freak Scene #52: wolfears Runs Wild on 'WOLFPACK'
Plus, Frank Viele goes all 8-bit in a series of music videos, and we check out jepyang.
Freak Scene #51: Heather Maloney Seeks Light on 'Exploding Star'
Plus, Bella's Bartok set up for a residency and Wallace Field once went to the Iron Horse in costume.
Freak Scene #50: F.I.M. Records Curates Free Improvisation
Plus, Perennial are your new favorite live band.
Freak Scene #49: Reverend Dan and the Dirty Catechism Live It Up
Plus, Kris Delmhorst and her band cut loose on the new song "Won't Be Long."
Freak Scene #48: New LPs from the Journals Kept and the Bargain
We dive into the latest albums from Easthampton's the Journals Kept and New Haven's the Bargain.
Freak Scene #47: The Folk Implosion and Sailor Down
Catching up on a couple of releases from 2024 as the new year gets under way.
