AP’s Local Faves of 2019

Oh yeah that did come out this year… We’re looking back at our 25 favorite local releases this year from Palehound and Pile to Red Shaydez and Lily Rayne.

PREVIEW: Concord’s Rock On Fest Readies Fifth Year

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For the fifth year running, Rock On Fest will showcase Concord’s local community with music, basketball games, local vendors, and more.

Vitiligo: A Racial Trauma Thriller

Vitiligo is the groundwork to a conversation that has already happened many times but has yet to sink under the skin of mainstream America. The fantasy of the film is grounded in reality – taking place in a psychological limbo that explores the reality of 2014 America’s struggle to ignore the implosion of race relations as it ricochets around our collective consciousness, online and in person. The film hits you over the head with the struggle of existing within a white dominated society as a person of color, and the mental toll it takes to be the factchecker for people who would much rather dismiss those facts with personal experience or diminish the severity of race inequality to preserve ego and the status quo.

Staff Picks for Best of 2019… So Far

We got our writers together to pick some of their favorite albums that have come out so far in 2019 in honor or American hero Megan Rapinoe’s birthday.

SOME GIGS TO GET TO: Allston Pudding Fall Picks

There are so many necessary shows and events that will feature local heroes coming up this back-to-school season. We just had to list them.