Day 1 schedule for Boston Bitdown. For our full text please refer to our site for the schedule in text
Happy Boston Bitdown Day 1!
Both venues are next door to each other at The Jungle and Warehouse XI
Tickets still available at the door!
Please be advised that parking in that lot is for tenants only.
#BostonBitdown
Tune in to GBH's The Culture Show on Tuesday 2pm ET to hear Battlemode live in-studio, discussing Boston Bitdown and giving an on-air demo on making #chiptune w/ a Game Boy.
⚡ www.wgbh.org/shows/the-cu...
@wgbh.org
@thecultureshowgbh.bsky.social
@battlemode.bsky.social
@bostonbitdown.bsky.social
![TELL - ’Things To Do When It’s Dark [official music video]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uvb3alwtdbcp6lupgb455js6/bafkreiemnu4tbosh7cfiagxtnhlhywsctvunmxi72cqvsvwhxmnfy2kfqi)
New Music Tuesday: TELL's video for resistance rock protest song 'Things To Do When It's Dark' has arrived, and the Rick Berlin-directed visual finds the band fending off ICE's community takeover before hitting the Warp and Weft stage. #ICEout #ICE #protestsong
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNuw...
▶️ 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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⚡ knyvet.substack.com/p/boston-bit...
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
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
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...
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
love love love that City Builders bop.
AOTY.
You'll dig this one -- got a Garbage meets Curve meets 1997 noisy electronic rock banger written all over it. <33
How am I supposed to explain daylight savings time to my cat?
oh shit i should check this out.
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
New Sounds: London foursome Away Fans deliver a cinematic house of mirrors, where self-doubt and inner confidence spiral in lockstep.
🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/22/a...
@michaeloc.bsky.social
🚨 *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 💙🦒🦒🦒
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...
🐝 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
…CONTROLLED CINEMATIC CHAOS…
Thank you @knyvet.bsky.social for the write up. Read more here: knyvet.substack.com/p/proles-sum...
INAUGURATION OUT EVERYWHERE 10.3.25 👁️
One of my all-time faves.
⚡ 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...
#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
Whole album is a crusher. Rattlesnake Eyes was always my fave. Goes hard.
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
The V List: The dream of '90s British indie is alive and well across Boston's live music calendar this month.
🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/09/t...
@michaeloc.bsky.social
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
Today in #Somerville: The inaugural Dream A Better World fest at Warehouse XI.
🔗 rubygrovemusic.com/dreamabetter...
#HumanRightsDay #EqualityForAll #JusticeMatters #SocialJustice #Activism #BostonMA #SomervilleMA
🚨 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.
⚡ 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
🚨 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.
⚡ distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...
