Speedy Ortiz recently announced their benefit tour for the Girls Rock Camp Foundation, including NYC shows on December 11 at Silent Barn with Downtown Boys, Eskimeaux and Very Fresh; and December 12 at Palisades with Aye Nako, Dirt...
Kindling, the new-ish Western Mass shoegaze band with two members of screamo band Ampere, released their Galaxies EP last week on No Idea and began some release shows over the week...
Western Mass screamo band Ampere have been pretty busy this year. They recently released a split with Raein, and Will and Meghan released the debut album with their band Longi...
Boston-born record label Topshelf stuffed their CMJ party with the sort of bleary-eyed, ruddy-cheeked indie rock that they've built their modest name off of since 2006, but the funereal crawl of Brooklyn folkies Lizard Kisses was asynchronously tapped to kick off the proceedings...
Short-lived but influential '90s emo band Boys Life reunited this year and signed to Topshelf for a reissue of their 1996 album, Departures and Landfa...
The 2015 CMJ Music Marathon happens from October 13-17, and today the initial list of artists was revealed. A bunch of these are NYC shows we've posted about (browse our "CMJ" tag), but highlights include Car Seat Headrest, Cheatahs, Destruction Unit, Dent May, Dilly Dally, Doomsquad,…