▶️ PRESS PLAY: @bostonbitdown.bsky.social is back for another round, and this year the chiptune, nerdcore, and VGM music festival has leveled up its game play.
Curated by @battlemode.bsky.social and @geekbeatradio.bsky.social, the 2026 edition...
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03.02.2026 17:59 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
New Music Wednesday: Massachusetts power-emo foursome Cape Crush today unveil anthemic single “Calm & Delivered” via Wanna Hear It Records, the first shot of May’s debut album “Place Memory.”
⚡YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKyH...
@capecrushma.bsky.social
28.01.2026 13:39 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
ALREADY DEAD – I Think It’s Time To Leave… EP | Real Gone
New at REAL GONE: Already Dead - I Think It's Time To Leave... EP (review and stream)
www.realgonerocks.com/2025/12/alre...
#MusicSky #PunkSky
30.12.2025 09:03 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Year in ReView: Here are 20 standout tracks that shaped the sound of 2025, and helped provide a needed respite from our daily scream at the screen, writes Vanyaland editor-in-chief @michaeloc.bsky.social.
🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/12/08/y...
08.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite needle drops in the films of 2025
Who doesn't love some needle drops? Join us in celebrating the best non-original soundtrack cues in movies from this year.
Year in ReView: Who doesn't love some needle drops? Join us in celebrating the best non-original soundtrack cues in movies from this year.
🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/12/09/y...
@enh-jay.bsky.social #yearinreview #bestof2025
09.12.2025 22:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
love love love that City Builders bop.
14.11.2025 13:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
AOTY.
07.11.2025 14:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You'll dig this one -- got a Garbage meets Curve meets 1997 noisy electronic rock banger written all over it. <33
07.11.2025 14:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How am I supposed to explain daylight savings time to my cat?
02.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
oh shit i should check this out.
31.10.2025 12:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy 30th anniversary to Pulp's 'Different Class', a true masterstroke of Britpop and an album that helped shape my life. I will never stop posting the Save The Date postcard for our wedding <3 @britpopgirl.bsky.social
30.10.2025 12:35 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!
Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒
15.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 2343 🔁 1171 💬 205 📌 364
It's a high-flying week ahead for The Chelsea Curve, who unveil 'Rally 'Round' this Friday as part of @thesoundcove.bandcamp.com's 'Super Sonic Showcase, Vol. 1' compilation, before playing the Boston label's matinée release party on Sunday at The Burren.
⚡ knyvet.substack.com/p/the-chelse...
14.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
BumbleBee Radio | Kristen Eck | Boston, Massachusetts
Boston radio veteran, Kristen Eck presents a new internet radio station focusing on Indie, Alternative Rock, Electronica, and more.
🐝 Hot Show Alert: Join us 3 weeks from tonight as BumbleBee Radio celebrates 5 years of indie, alternative and fun with an anniversary and Halloween party at Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre.
⚡ www.bumblebeeradio.com
03.10.2025 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
One of my all-time faves.
25.09.2025 11:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Till the Well Runs Dry
⚡ New Music Tuesday: Nate Perry & Ragged Company, 'Till the Well Runs Dry' EP -- #altrock #americana
What a day: The rapture is coming, it's Bruce Springsteen's birthday, and Boston's NPRC unveil their new EP, featuring moonlit spotlight single 'Disappear'.
⚡ open.spotify.com/album/4kYn30...
23.09.2025 12:35 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
#NewMusicFriday: Figures On A Beach, 'Play' -- A pulsating #synthpop + #postpunk track that serves as a vibrant relic from the band's final tumultuous years, previously lost to time, circumstance, and a music industry that simply is no more.
⚡ Bandcamp: figuresonabeach.bandcamp.com/track/play
19.09.2025 12:41 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Whole album is a crusher. Rattlesnake Eyes was always my fave. Goes hard.
18.09.2025 08:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rendering of proposed apartment building with Great Scott and green awning
Great Scott! Board approves new Harvard Avenue building for venerable venue, O'Brien's and 139 apartments
www.universalhub.com/2025/great-s...
#Boston #Allston #music
09.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 59 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 2
Boy Deluxe put in electro-punk work with a dose of 'WHIPLASH'
Fast Tracked: The Los Angeles dark-pop project drop a sinister new beat as we collectively sashay back to the mutant disco.
Fast Tracked: Los Angeles dark-pop project Boy Deluxe drop a sinister new beat as we collectively sashay back to the mutant disco.
🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/02/b...
@boydeluxe.bsky.social
@michaeloc.bsky.social
02.09.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Ruby Grove
Ruby Grove- Maybe It's Time- Remastered (Official Music Video)
🚨 New Music Tuesday: A new social justice music festival is coming to Somerville’s Warehouse XI this Sunday. It’s called Dream A Better World Fest and it’s the creation of Melissa Nilles of Ruby Grove, the alt-indie band that today also releases the 'Maybe It’s Time' video.
19.08.2025 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
⚡ One Week From Today ⚡ A new #SocialJustice music festival is coming to Somerville’s Warehouse XI on Sunday, August 24.
It’s called Dream A Better World Fest, and it's the creation of Melissa Nilles.
Info: rubygrovemusic.com/dreamabetter...
#HumanRightsDay #EqualityForAll #JusticeMatters
17.08.2025 13:59 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
In Real Time by The Ringer Soundtrack
Stream and Save In Real Time - Distributed by DistroKid
🚨 New Music Friday -- The Ringer Soundtrack, ‘In Real Time’
A relationship that has suddenly gone stale is at the core of The Ringer Soundtrack’s expansive “In Real Time,” a slow-burning new single of seismic ache and emotion from the eclectic Boston alt-pop trio.
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15.08.2025 13:17 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
From the desk of Linnea's Garden: "Feeling stuck? Looking for community IRL? Want to get inspired? We got you. 🦄 Dream A Better World Fest is August 24 from 2-9 pm at Warehouse XI". Hit the link for the full PSA.
⚡ www.instagram.com/p/DNR6hnGsGZ...
13.08.2025 12:21 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The inaugural Dream A Better World Fest launches two weeks from today, Sunday, August 24, at Warehouse XI, delivering a new social justice music festival to Somerville.
⚡ rubygrovemusic.com/dreamabetter...
10.08.2025 14:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Live Review + Photo Gallery: Pantera flex an older display of power
The Texas groove metal miscreants, now rounded out by Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante, brought the heat to Mansfield's XFinity Center.
Live Review + Photo Gallery: Texas groove metal miscreants Pantera, now rounded out by Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante, brought the heat, literally and figuratively, to Mansfield's Xfinity Center over the weekend.
vanyaland.com/2025/08/05/l...
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@michaeloc.bsky.social
05.08.2025 14:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
London based indie rock n' roll band. New single ‘Wait' is OUT NOW on all music streaming sites
https://linktr.ee/payolamusicuk
I ride my bike, get angry at cars, talk about disability advocacy, eat baked goods, and make sure Gus is well fed. I hail from the best state in New England.
Writer for @allstonpudding.bsky.social, socialist, dog dad, lover of classy art & trashy wrestling, town dunce. often discussing Boston stuff. He/him. Bisexual. Free Palestine. Mask up 😷 ✝️
Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
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www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Boston Bitdown returns March 5th - 8th, 2026!
Roots rock trio near Boston!
https://linktr.ee/dirtroadsouls
Noise From The Underground. Eclectic music you need to hear. Listen at www.eardrumbuzz.net
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Pics, videos, & thoughts from KC gigs, a weekly podcast, a vinyl singles series, and other stuff that’s probably more important than we think. http://toomuchrock.com
Books, short stories, music, and a sometimes broken website. Based in Toronto.
Web: https://www.turnandwork.com/links
Newsletter: https://www.turnandwork.com/news/
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Wayward Vine is a Boston-based Americana and indie-folk band performing harmony-based originals.
Doing the baseball things at @MLB dot com.
BBWAA. NYC. BU. NJ. Sometimes I play the bass. Go @njdevils.
An online publication focusing on industrial, electronic, goth, and other underground alternative music, art, and culture.
ReGenerate Your Mind!
Connect with us: https://linktr.ee/regenmag
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/regenmagazine
Supporting the New England Americana (and Americana-adjacent) music scene since 2007. Organizers of the annual New England Americana Fest... The most recent NEAF was June 29th at the Bellforge Arts Center (Medfield, MA). Stay tuned for the next one!
senior producer, @Boston.com | she/her | formerly The Daily News of Newburyport | Chicago & Boston sports fan | opinions my own
Humorist, urbanist, satirist, sartorialist, minimalist, soloist, bicyclist, mid-century modernist on no one’s to-do list.
Raised on a steady diet of Britpop, baggy, Madchester, and modern alternative, the newly-formed Boston band urges everyone to raise a fist, bang a drum, and get on the indie dance floor.
Trouser Press, Trouser Press Books, journalist, novelist, critic, editor, currently catless, red diaper baby, lifetime New Yorker
https://www.hopp.bio/tpbooks
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