Somos Joins Tigers Jaw and Lemuria on Spring Tour

Snag ticket information over at Ground Control Touring.

Keeping up with Somos. Back on tour! But not the old tour they dropped off of. It's a new and improved tour.

Less than a week after Somos announced their decision to drop off the Dads / Roger Harvey Tour in February due to personal issues that would render a tour "daunting and unmanageable" at this time, the band came back on a high note by revealing they will join Tigers Jaw and Lemuria on tour this spring. The whopping 33-stop tour will begin with a two-night kickoff at The Sinclair in Harvard Square. Tickets go on sale Friday, 1/16 at 10am. Information can be found here.

So emo.


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Choke Up's Debut LP Leaves Us Speechless - Pre-order 'Black Coffee, Bad Habits'

Pre-order your copy of Black Coffee, Bad Habits today.

This band. This goddamn band. I need a moment to compose myself.

The production and orchestration of a Choke Up record never ceases to amaze. 

Black Coffee, Bad Habits (Black Numbers) is well-polished hardcore at its most sophisticated level. The type of punk you listen to with a cigar and a brandy snifter. Each incarnation of this band is an elaboration of the previous record. And each record is like a dramatic composition; Characters, plots, story lines, heroes, villains, damsels, foreshadowing, reflection and conclusions. In an effort to articulate the grandeur and intelligence of the debut LP from Boston's Choke Up, we can only muster, "Buy this fucking amazing record."

Pre-orders of the LP are available now in Forest Green (100), Clear with Blue Smoke (150) and White vinyl (250) for $12. CDs for $8. Test Press Pack for $50 and Three Pack for $30 are also available. Pre-orders ship on or around February 2nd.

Listen to "KC" below (courtesy of punknews.org) and "Thicket And Vine" currently streaming over at Brooklyn Vegan. And see Choke Up during their record release show with Pile, Raw Blow, Loom and Banquets (NJ) at O'Brien's Pub in Allston on January 24th, guaranteed to sell out so get there early.

Follow Choke Up on Facebook for additional release and show information. And find additional releases on Bandcamp.

Tour Dates

• January 23rd – Philadelphia – Golden Tea House
• January 24th – Boston – O’Brien’s Pub
• January 29th – Portsmouth, NH – The Red Door
• January 30th – Brooklyn, NY – Legion
• January 31st – Atlantic City, NJ – The Boneyard

New Music: Great White Tourist - 'You Grump'

Free music for your ear holes. All the way from tax free New Hampshire.

Manchester, New Hampshire’s Great White Tourist is taking a roadtrip down to O’Brien’s in Allston on Wednesday, December 17th to support their debut EP, You Grump, a 5-song record that has a real emo indie Braid quality to it.

Yo Ticonderoga, Mr. Fahrenheit and Tokyo Quickdraw (NH) will round out the night. Show is $7, 21+ and additional details can be found on the official Facebook event page.

CDs are available for purchase at the show (limited to 50 copies) and digital version can be downloaded for free (at a name your price donation) on Bandcamp now. Follow Great White Tourist on Facebook for additional show information.

Your 2014 Punk Artist of the Year Award Goes To...

2014 BMA Punk Artist of the Year nominees

Congratulations to The Hotelier for taking home the "Punk Artist of the Year" Boston Music Award last night at the Revere Hotel. Home, Like No Place Is There is a great record, Tiny Engines is a fantastic label. The band sells out rooms, they play all ages shows for the kids. Deserved win. (Whether or not they even knew of their involvement in this year's BMAs).

And congratulations to St. Louis' Foxing, co-headlining band during The Hotelier's 2014 summer tour, for making their debut BMA appearance...

Because that's not The Hotelier.

Listen to "Among the Wildflowers" off of Home, Like No Place Is There, plus 9 other local songs released this year in our Local Picks for 2014 post.

View all this year's BMA winners.

No Sleep Records 2014 Fall Sampler

Huntington Beach, CA label, No Sleep Records, recently released their 2014 Fall Sampler which includes a track by Boston's Foreign Tongues. "Luxury", off of the 2014 The Felix Culpa / Foreign Tongues Split, is one of 18 tracks on this free, limited time digital download. Snag your copy here for free before they're gone.

Somos Joins the No Sleep Family

So much news! So much touring! So many links! Boston indie/emo band, Somos, announced today that they are the newest addition to the No Sleep Records family.

Rock Out With Your Cocktail Out Vol. XXVII

Welcome Freshmen! Here's a drink, and some music, and a bunch of shows you should go to.

Man I'm going to miss the abundance of parking I've grown accustom to over the past few months, but if it means more kids in the clubs, then by all means, move right on in. While you're screwing together your MALMS or BESTÅS or whatever other IKEA item you inevitably will toss after the school year, take a break now and then for a glass of hard apple cider sangria and a new music playlist.

The Cardboard Swords - O'Brien's Pub 8/14/14

Check out Grand Rapids' emo band, The Cardboard Swords at O'Brien's Pub 8/14.

Feel feelings and score that perfect year book quote at O’Brien’s Pub on Thursday, August 14th when The Cardboard Swords roll into town.

Emerging from the Grand Rapids, Michigan DIY scene, this newish three-piece is all pining and poetry with the 2014 Remnants EP. Influenced by Taking Back Sunday and Death Cab For Cutie, this Midwestern band presents a less abrasive range of passive aggressive reflections.

When they’re not writing lines like “Life may or may not be about finding true love, but it’s certainly not about begging for it from someone,” that appears in the spoken word interlude of “Flannel”, The Cardboard Swords are advocates for the do it yourself and do it together local scenes like Do-It-Together Grand Rapids, an open collective dedicated to supporting the local cultural scene of the city and the greater artistic community by propagating, promoting, and engaging the public with performances - Musical and Otherwise - In the context of house shows and small DIY/DIT venues. A cause that any conscious Allston/Boston scene supporter can respect.

Dudes singing about girls gets me every time. If you’re riding the emo wave with bands like Old Gray, Hotelier and Somos, you’ll enjoy The Cardboard Swords.

See The Cardboard Swords along with band BFFs Moses (MI), Loud Clappers and Antennae Wedding at O'Brien's Pub, Allston, August 14th ($7/21+/event details).

Remnants is available for purchase $3 or more on Bandcamp now. Follow The Cardboard Swords on Facebook and Twitter and learn more about them and the Do It Together Grand Rapids scene by listening to the band's guest spot on West Michigan Indie podcast.

Somos on Tour with I Am the Avalanche This Summer

Boston's Somos (Tiny Engines) will be heading out with New York's Rust Belt Lights (Adeline Records) and I Am the Avalanche (I Surrender Records) for their East Cost Summer Tour beginning July 18th in Brooklyn, NY and boomeranging back up to finish on August 2nd in Amityville, NY; making stops in Hamden, CT and Providence, RI along the way.

Somos recently released their debut LP, Temple of Plenty in March of 2014 and played a sold out Record Release show at The Middle East Upstairs with labelmates The Hotelier. (It was all ages, the Red Bull was flowing). You can purchase Temple of Plenty on vinyl and in digital format on Tiny Engines' site now and head to Bandcamp to stream the album in its entirety.

Full List of Tour Dates
FRI July 18- Brooklyn, NY @ St. Vitus
SAT July 19- Atlantic City, NJ @ The Boneyard
SUN July 20- Virginia Beach, VA @ Shaka's
TUE July 22- Charlotte, NC @ Milestone Club
WED July 23- Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
THU July 24- Tampa, FL @ Epic Problem
FRI July 25- Lake Worth, FL @ Propaganda
SAT July 26- Jacksonville, FL @ 1904 Music Hall
SUN July 27- Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
TUE July 29- Richmond, VA @ The Camel
WED July 30- Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
THU July 31- Hamden, CT @ The Space
FRI Aug 1- Providence, RI @ The Met
SAT Aug 2- Amityville, NY @ Revolution

#BandcampRoulette

See New City Ghost open for The Okay Win at TT the Bear's 5.17.14.

Pensive and emotive, New City Ghost channel the all the melodramatics of Mayday Parade with their upcoming 5-song EP Ossa Cava. Previewing two songs on Bandcamp now, the Rhode Island quartet are withholding their alternative rock, show-us-your-teeth track "Wake" for the May 20th release date. But you may be able to get an advanced listen during their set at The Okay Win's Record Release Show May 17th at TT the Bear's Central Square, Cambridge.

Follow New City Ghost on Facebook and Twitter for additional shows and record release information.

Play Bandcamp Roulette.

The Dirty Looks - Line of Sight

Download your copy of Line of Sight on Bandcamp today.

With the recent success of local emotive bands like The Hotelier and Somos, we’re keeping the next band to emerge from that camp, The Dirty Looks, tight on our radar.

Their 4-song EP Line of Sight (Green Line Records) is the follow up to the 2013 split EP with Fairgrounds.

The Dirty Looks successfully create an air of relatable vulnerability with their music. Line of Sight hits all the right points; melodic guitars, crucial intermission breakdown with tide turning conclusion, and vivid imagery with lines like “Skin and bones hiding under the table, Rearranged to the point of disabled.”

Released April 18th, free Bandcamp downloads of the EP ran out within 24 hours. Digital downloads have been replenished at a name your price purchase, physical CDs are available during live shows.

Follow The Dirty Looks on Facebook and Twitter for additional information and upcoming show dates.

EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT! MINERAL IS PLAYING A REUNION TOUR

All of our wildest dreams are coming true. Mineral is coming to Boston.

UPDATE (4/24 3:14p)
Tickets for the 9/10 show at Brighton Music Hall will go on sale Friday, April 25th at 11am via Ticketmaster.


Oh hey, just an FYI...the short-lived yet forever eternal 90’s emo band, Mineral, will embark on a (for now) quick 20th Anniversary Tour of nostalgic pining and ethereal, angst-ridden noise beginning September with Into It. Over It., stopping at the Brighton Music Hall in Allston on September 10th and finishing up at FEST 13 in Gainesville, FL. CLEAR OUR CALENDAR.

Mineral 2014 Tour Dates
09-05 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
09-06 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
09-09 Washington, DC - Black Cat
09-10 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
09-11 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
09-12 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
11-02 Gainesville, FL - The Fest 13

You can stalk follow Brighton Music Hall on Facebook and Twitter for ticket sale dates. Now listen to one of the best fucking albums of your life, in its entirety.

Old Gray, Tiny Moving Parts Split

Old Gray Tiny Moving Parts split out mid May. Pre-orders available now.

NH manic emotional poetic musicians Old Gray will release a split 7” with equally heart-on-sleeve Minnesota band Tiny Moving Parts mid May.

The brain melting post-hardcore collaboration will be put out by Kind of Like Records and Broken World Media, and limited to 500 copies.

The Okay Win - 'Nothing's Not Moving'

The Okay Win's Nothing's Not Moving out April 15th.

Notorious for staging their lyrical content in contextual allegories, Boston indie band The Okay Win introduce Nothing’s Not Moving with the thoughtful and metaphor-ridden track “Shift”. “Every record up until this point has always started with a loud punch, and this was definitely a change of pace,” states singer Stephen MacDonald. Originally thought to be added as a secret track on the record, “Shift”, which was inspired by a movie quote, "As long as you're facing forward, it's the right direction,” was promoted after the band realized the song encapsulated the overlying message of the album. “That felt like the proper note to start the record on.”

Sorority Noise Debut Free Track Off of Upcoming LP

Cameron Boucher’s (Old Gray) side project, Sorority Noise, is coming into its own with the first full length Forgettable, out May 13th. The CT band’s follow up to their 2013 EP Young Luck kicks and punches with the self-deprecating, emo goodness of 90’s pop punk. You can grab a free download of the first song “Rory Shield” off the 9-track LP over at Brooklyn Vegan or by clicking the download button below because we have internet hacking smarts and grabbed the imbed code. Sorority Noise will finish up a short tour with Old Gray at Today’s Mixtape Festival in Long Island this evening. 

Foreign Tongues To Release Local EP

Sweet Empathy Leaving Me available April 8th on Youth Conspiracy Records.

Despite Foreign Tongues’ singer Cameron Moretti announcing, “This will be our last show for a while,” during the Wrong Body Record Release party at O’Brien’s Pub (Allston) last Friday (3/14), Moretti clarifies that the band is not going anywhere, and his statement was more of the literal sense.

Birhday Bash Thank You!

The prettiest O'Brien's Pub has ever looked (image credit)

A blizzard couldn't stop this show! Despite rapid snowfall, the kids came out to O'Brien's Pub in Allston for Bishop And Rook's Flirty Thirty Birthday Bash with Shambles, Rebuilder, Laureate (Montreal) and Save Ends. Click through to the bands' Bandcamp pages to stream and download music.

Bishop And Rook at WMBR Cambridge - Hashtag No Swearing

DJ Jeff Breeze working. Kristin creeping. Follow Bishop And Rook on Instagram!

From podcasts in January to FCC regulated radio in February, Bishop And Rook is making the rounds on the airwaves!

Our friend DJ Jeff Breeze over at WMBR's local music show Pipeline! was nice enough to let use hang out Tuesday night, talk shop, promote the Bishop And Rook Flirty Thirty Birthday Show happening February 15th in Allston, and let said Birthday Show band, Save Ends, jam out live on air. Hashtag No Swearing. Hashtag Muffins.

We had a blast playing Rebuilder, Shambles, Choke Up, The Okay Win, M.G. Letterman and not actually knowing what to do in a professional radio station.

Listen to the February 11th show over at the official Pipeline! website, follow them on Facebook and Twitter, and tune into 88.1FM (Cambridge/Boston) or listen online every Tuesday from 8p-10p for the newest music coming out of the New England area.

#BandcampRoulette

Montreal emo band, Laureate, creates movie soundtrack magic with the title track off their 2013 EP Leave a Light On. Head to Bandcamp for a free digital download or purchase the EP on vinyl for $10 and see them live at O'Brien's Pub in Allston on February 15th.

Play Bandcamp Roulette.

The Okay Win Release New Single, "Reaction"

Stream The Okay Win's new track, "Reaction" on Soundcloud

Boston's The Okay Win is back on the scene and excited to share the first track off Nothing’s Not Moving, the anticipated follow up to the 2012 EP, Leveled, scheduled to be released early this spring.

“Reaction” continues the band’s emotional, indie rock sound into the New Year. Follow The Okay Win on Facebook for additional release details and show dates.