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Dec 23, 2020 By Mark Moody Web Exclusive If in a fever dream you ever imagined a collaboration between new comer Squirrel Flower, Xiu Xiu, The Get Up Kids, and Saturday Looks Good To Me’s Fred Thomas, Polyvinyl Records is here to serve that up for you. And that’s just one song (“Do U Remember”) out of the 11 on the Exquisite Corpse compilation (digitally released in September and now being released in physical form). You’re probably aware of the “exquisite corpse” game even if you don’t recognize the name. Artist Salvador Dali and his wacky surrealist friends, when bo...

This Week’s Livestreams (Bruce Springsteen, St. Vincent, Dua Lipa, Bob Weir, more) LAST UPDATED: 12/23 at 3:53 PM ET HERE ARE THIS WEEK'S LIVESTREAMS (Sunday, 12/20 - Saturday, 12/26): Wednesday, December 23 9 PM ET on Momenthouse. Tickets are on sale now. Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is presenting daily Twitter listening parties for classic (and sometimes new) indie and alternative albums, with commentary from the artists who made them. Today they'll discuss Shed Seven's 1 PM ET, 7 PM ET with "An Eve Eve Event" featuring Queen of Jeans, Squirrel Flower, Clever Girls, and Long Neck. RS...

This Week’s Livestreams (Foo Fighters, Courtney Barnett, Yo La Tengo, Rick Ross, more) LAST UPDATED: 12/18 at 6:54 PM ET HERE ARE THIS WEEK'S LIVESTREAMS (Sunday, 12/13 - Saturday, 12/19): Saturday, December 19 4 AM ET, 3 PM ET, and 11 PM ET on Momenthouse. Tickets are on sale now. BadPond Live Stream Festivals streams on YouTube at 9:30 AM ET, featuring A.A. Williams, Jamie Lenman, Saint Agnes and more. All Them Witches stream two virtual concerts at 2 PM ET and Riz Ahmed is streaming a virtual performance of The Long Goodbye at Enslaved are streaming all three parts of the "Cinemat...

Rapper BIA takes top prize at Boston Music awards Medford rapper BIA was named the Boston Music Awards' Artist of the Year. BIA, whose new album, “For Certain,” dropped today, was the top of an eclectic lineup of Massachusetts artists who won awards, including Brockton rapper Saint Lyor, who won New artist of the Year, indie artist Squirrel Flower who won Breakthrough Artist of the Year, the band Ballroom Thieves, which won album of the year for “Unlovely,” and Cliff Notez & Dephrase, who won song of the year for their collaboration with Latrell James, “Voodoo Doll.” Usually, ther...

The best local albums of 2020. (Courtesy of the artists) In 2020, nothing was as before. So we did what we always do in times of crisis: we sought solace in music, and escape. And while many Massachusetts artists struggled to make ends meet in an industry brought to its knees by the pandemic, it is reassuring to look back on the year and see that, amid so much loss, we gained some beautiful things. Here are our critics’ favorite local albums to emerge from a year like no other. The tumultuous sophomore release of Sean Sprecher’s Bad History Month arrived at the peak of our isolation in Ap...