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Collective Thinking @ Blanc Gallery

In 2010, a group of 20-something art and music enthusiasts transformed an unassuming basement space on Vancouver Street into YES.OUI.SI., a multi-media gallery and gathering spot for young talents that hosted dozens of visual-art shows, film screenings, literary readings, and experimental music performances.

By: LIZ PELLY | March 06, 2013

Primordial Sounds’ label-ready learning curve

Cellars by Starlight
Noah Bond's Allston apartment looks like an antique shop.

By: LIZ PELLY | February 20, 2013

Beach Fossils | Clash The Truth

Captured Tracks (2013)
Last year in an interview with the Phoenix , Dustin Payseur of Beach Fossils said his sophomore album would be inspired by "a lot of frustration from a lot of different sources."

By: LIZ PELLY | February 20, 2013

Iceage | You're Nothing

Matador Records (2013)
There's something intriguing about the ways Copenhagen punk band Iceage seem simultaneously to care so much and so little.

By: LIZ PELLY | February 11, 2013

Bee-havior: ''Festooning the Inflatable Beehive'' at BU's 808 Gallery

An art gallery may seem like an unconventional space for discussions on insect behavior, but Maria Molteni maintains beekeeping is as much an art as a science.

By: LIZ PELLY | February 06, 2013

La Big Vic | Cold War

Underwater Peoples (2013)
In 2011, La Big Vic released Actually, a retro-futuristic avant-pop album playing skillfully with classical and experimental influences.

By: LIZ PELLY | February 01, 2013

Katie Crutchfield's travels

Waxahatchee's American Weekend was my favorite record of 2012, an 11-song collection of downcast acoustic-guitar ballads laced with raw, pointed poetry, home-recorded over a week at Katie Crutchfield's childhood home in Birmingham, Alabama.

By: LIZ PELLY | January 30, 2013

The History of Apple Pie | Out of View

Marshall Teller Records (2013)
London-based quintet the History of Apple Pie's debut LP for Marshall Teller Records is an essential spin for fans of Dino Jr. riffs and early Slumberland indie-pop.

By: LIZ PELLY | January 29, 2013

Ducktails | The Flower Lane

Domino (2013)
Whereas previous Ducktails albums collaged pop ideas with kaleidoscopic filters and home-recorded hiss, The Flower Lane distills those disparate parts into a more firmly structured songcraft, sewn together with psychedelic guitars and dreamy imagery.

By: LIZ PELLY | January 23, 2013

Purity Ring’s body of futuristic pop

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The brain of a seamstress must carry an intricate understanding of human anatomy, a knowledge of the body's limbs and joints, and the ways each part flexes into the next.

By: LIZ PELLY | January 23, 2013

Visualized: Spectacle's one-night art show

This Friday night in Jamaica Plain, multimedia performance space Spectacle will transform for the third installment of All Visual Boston, a one-night art show that will merge a digital slideshow of photographic work with a performance by local experimental musical duo Tooms.

By: LIZ PELLY | January 08, 2013

What's F'n Next? Nude Beach

Chuck Betz, Ryan Naideau, and Jimmy Shelton met in high school on Long Island while playing in punk and hardcore bands like Guadalupe, Dustheads, and Religious Knives.

By: LIZ PELLY | January 08, 2013

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[Q&A] Carrie Brownstein on the similarities between Portlandia and Sleater-Kinney, her favorite music of 2012, and more

By: LIZ PELLY | January 02, 2013

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Label Made: The story of Captured Tracks

The corner of West and Noble is a quiet, industrial area of Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

By: LIZ PELLY | January 02, 2013

Surveying the stacks at Weirdo Records

Cellars by starlight
Weirdo's Mass Ave storefront feels like a glorified walk-in closet, with neon-pink walls covered in posters and shelves of CDs and LPs ranging from '60s Pakistani folk instrumentals and long-lost 1940s pop crooners to Spanish '80s punk compilations and CDs of noise recordings captured in Jamaica Plain.

By: LIZ PELLY | December 18, 2012