Freak Scene #20: Hedgewitch Get Telepathic on 'Grass Cat'
This week in Freak Scene, Hedgewitch mix improvised musical arrangements with vocal sounds and stories on their first album, and Signature Dish strive to get...
Freak Scene #19: Carrie Ferguson Thrives on 'The Many I Am'
This week in Freak Scene, Carrie Ferguson tells us about their new song “The Many I Am” and the video they shot in Turners Falls in April. Also, the Stone...
Freak Scene #18: Bill MacKay Defies Description
Plus, Perennial hit the detonator on their new album 'Art History.'
Freak Scene #17: Buffalo Tom Bring New LP Back to Amherst
This week in Freak Scene, Buffalo Tom bassist Chris Colbourn tells us what the Valley music scene was like in the mid-’80s, while Wishbone Zoë leaves us...
Freak Scene #16: Black Pyramid Embark on a Quest
This week in Freak Scene, we go on a journey with Northampton trio Black Pyramid on their formidable new album, and check out the new single from New Haven’s...
Freak Scene #15: Mystics Anonymous Explore Boundaries
This week in Freak Scene, we listen to Mystics Anonymous’ first album in a decade, watch the recent video from New Haven-area duo Midnight Psychic and catch...
Freak Scene #14: Original Cowards Show No Fear on Latest
This week in Freak Scene, Original Cowards are having fun on their latest, Country Club Creeps. Also, Western Mass. duo High Tea have a new song, as do...
Freak Scene #13: bobbie Beams Into Your Subsconcious
This week in Freak Scene, bobbie brings us an immersive album experience with Rhododendron, and there’s a ton of stuff to do in Northampton in May as part of...
Freak Scene #12: In These Trees and Tartie Team Up
This week in Freak Scene, we check out “The Quiver,” a collaboration spanning 14 time zones, along with a super-catchy new single from Les Dérailleurs and...
Freak Scene #11: Sunburned Hand of the Man Seek Radiance on 'Nimbus'
This week in Freak Scene, Sunburned Hand of the Man return with Nimbus, Daniel Hales confounds autocorrect with the latest from his project Selah haleS, and...
Freak Scene #10: Birdfeeder's 'Woodstock' Arrives After 28 Years
This week in Freak Scene, Mark Mulcahy (him again!) and Chris Harford finally (re-)release a project nearly three decades in the making, the group Eavesdrop...
Freak Scene #9: Cloudbelly Transcend Folk on 'i know i know i know'
This week in Freak Scene, Cloudbelly's latest is a serious contender for this year's best-albums lists, Kalliope Jones are only getting better on their new...
Freak Scene #8: Taxidermists Spike Your Heartrate on New EP
This week in Freak Scene, Hadley duo Taxidermists return with a surprise EP, Montague fusion trio Vimana bring wide-ranging influences to their new album,...
Freak Scene #7: Odds Are Arrives with 'Port of Call'
In this week's Freak Scene, Greenfield's Stephen M. Kerr takes us on an unconventional musical journey as Odds Are, West Springfield punks the Difficult...
Freak Scene #6: Red Herrings Bring the Thunder
This week in Freak Scene, Red Herrings offer a glimpse into what's happening in Holyoke. We also wonder about the implications of the ongoing labor strike at...
Freak Scene #5: Lisa Bastoni's Spellbinding 'On the Water'
In this week's Freak Scene, Lisa Bastoni offers aching life lessons, Hannah Mohan is back, Harold Walker sets a melancholy love song in a galaxy far, far...
Freak Scene #4: True Jackie Stay True to Themselves
Here we are for the fourth issue of Freak Scene. This week, we hear the latest from True Jackie, take on Kelly LaMay's new album Out of Tune, check out songs...
Freak Scene #3: Ken Cormier Blows Off 'Steam'
Welcome to the third issue of Freak Scene. This week, we consider Ken Cormier's delightful new(ish) album Clouds and Steam, hear the latest from...
Freak Scene #2: Gentle Hen Goes Wandering
Welcome to the second installment of Freak Scene. This week we dig into Gentle Hen's new album, ponder news of an improbable Miracle Legion reunion and hear...
Introducing Freak Scene, a Western Mass. Music Newsletter
Freak Scene's coverage area. Welcome to the first issue of Freak Scene, a weekly newsletter about music in Western Massachusetts (and sometimes Connecticut)....
