Squirrel Flower

Fellow music blog Gorilla vs Bear celebrated its 15th anniversary this year, and it's retained its distinct style and tone throughout its entire existence. That always comes through in GvB's year-end lists...

Bright Eyes, Phoebe Bridgers, Angel Olsen, Beach House, Death Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes, Foo Fighters, Jeff Rosenstock, Jenny Lewis, Jimmy Eat World, Julien Baker, Keith Morris, Sharon Van Etten, Sleater-Kinney, and many more have also lent their support to ”We Need Every Voice.”

Plus Jason Isbell, Bright Eyes, Kathleen Hanna, Angel Olsen, Animal Collective, Puscifer, The Lemonheads, H.E.R., Bartees Strange, Japanese Breakfast, Phoebe Bridgers, Nothing, Teenage Halloween, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

Listen to new tracks from Open Mike Eagle, Clipping, beabadoobee, Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, Pole, Insane Clown Posse, Sinai Vessel, The Bug, Sun June, and more.

'Exquisite Corpse' features one-of-a-kind collaborations featuring 47 members of the Polyvinyl family, including members of American Football, Rainer Maria, Pedro the Lion, The Get Up Kids, Beach Slang, Vivian Girls, Xiu Xiu, SSLYBY, and more.

plus Bob Weir, Nick Hakim, Adam Lazzara of Taking Back Sunday, Alex Maas of Black Angels, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

plus: Robyn Hitchcock doing an all Syd Barrett set, Grateful Dead, The Tallest Man on Earth with Courtney Marie Andrews, Nathaniel Rateliff, Alice Glass, Stella Donnelly, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

Listen to new songs by Woods, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Dirty Projectors, Mountain Man (Kacey Musgraves cover), Sonic Boom, Sleaford Mods, Lianne La Havas, Ian Isiah/Chromeo, JPEGMAFIA/Denzel Curry, -(16)-, and more.

The greater Boston community (and beyond) has been distraught upon learning that Allston venue Great Scott won't be reopening after the coronavirus pandemic, and justifiably so.

A new musicians' union, the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, has formed, and its first objective is to seek aid for musicians affected by the coronavirus pandemic.