Tag: Spring 2026

Listen on Spotify 6 song EP Pokey Lafarge has been calling  Central Maine home for the past few years. His latest release, Travelin’ With Pokey LaFarge: Voice and Guitar Vol. I, leads off with a version of the classic folk tune “Ain’t No Grave” done as a duet with Addie Hamilton. The album presents the songwriter…

Listen on Spotify Single Regals is a five-piece alt-country band with members from New Hampshire and Maine. From their 2026 release “Regaltown, USA”, their song  “wallfly” blends gritty rock guitar with the cosmic whine of pedal steel, and surely makes my list of “Top 10 Songs to Pine To”. The track’s production has the depth…

Listen on Bandcamp 13 TracksSerendipity smiled upon me when I happened upon Lily’s latest Tiny Desk entry, “What’s the Big Idea?”.  Securing her CD at a house concert in JP two days later, it’s been my commute companion the last two months! Lily is on the folk-edge of Americana, but like most great art, the…

Listen on Spotify Single Consuelo’s Revenge is a seven-piece Americana band based in Providence, Rhode Island. From their 2025 LP “Bread and Circuses”, “Fool’s Paradise” expertly blends the band’s influences of Klezmer, bluegrass, and rock and roll to paint a story of doomed and desperate love. The track has haunting vocal harmonies and the instrumental…

Listen on Bandcamp 7 song album Farther from Near, the 2025 release from Boston-area singer/songwriter Tad Overbaugh and his crack band, is a throwback to the CDs you listened to in your parents’ Saturn while driving to the Cape in the summer of 1993. The album mixes the kind of midtempo, glossy guitar earnestness usually…

Listen on Spotify 8 song album Jennifer Tefft & The Strange may be a bit more alt-rock than alt-country, but good music is just good music; you just know when you hear it.  That being said, while this band is definitely on the indie rock side of the fence, there’s a lot that would cross-over…

Listen on Spotify 10-song Album Out of Worcester, MA comes berm, an art-folk project captained by Dan Lambert. berm’s music occupies the strange space between remembering and inventing. Wistful, atmospheric jams like the title track “Highway through the Trees,” “Snowstorm” and “Epilogue” (which I got a kick of as it was the 3rd track on…

Medford, MA 3/21/26 The lights are dim at Medford Brewing and the pints are flowing. Three at Home waste no time diving into their own blend of harmony-first, indie rock with soul and grit. They balance story telling with high energy performance, spurred on by the energetic drumming of Kari Paisley-Flango.  The band has a…

Cambridge, MA 2/28/26 People are lined up to see tonight’s show at The Lizard Lounge, one of the premiere clubs for independent music in Cambridge.  Not only is it a great place to hear music, it’s a great place to rub elbows with some of the movers and shakers in the local music scene and…