Allston Pudding Staff Picks of 2025
We wrap our year end coverage for 2025 with a roundup of our favorite (non-local) albums, songs, live shows, and more.
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Allston Pudding’s Favorite Local Albums of 2025
Another year in the books, another big list of killer local music. We feel these are the 30 best Boston and New England albums out this year.
Boston’s Dolata Exorcise Memory on Debut Single “Friday Girl”
Allston Pudding is delighted that Dolata are premiering their first release, “Friday Girl,” with us today.
Passion Mango Goes to Cambridge
By Dan Moffat When I saw the singer-songwriter name “Passion Mango,” I thought I would be biting into a bin of overripened, upbeat tunes from someone who lives in a climate with too much sun, ala Dayglow. What I got was hydroponic bedroom-pop from someone with a never ending view of the misty moldy mess […]
Captain Sunbeam premiere new album, Songs of Orion
By Dan Moffat “When I got sick with spinal cancer, I had to create a new version of myself who could withstand my new reality. As a lifelong songwriter and storyteller, and someone who believes that music is magic, I turned to music, and devised Captain Sunbeam.” So states Malachy Duffy on his kickstarter campaign […]
Bloc Party ring in their 20th Anniversary at MGM Fenway
Last Friday, Boston celebrated the 20th anniversary of Bloc Party’s masterpiece from the golden era of indie rock, Silent Alarm
Penny & Sparrow Land at The Paradise on April 19
By Dan Moffat Indie-folk rock band Penny & Sparrow are back on tour and playing Boston in support of their new album, Lefty. The new 20-track album was born in a retrofitted garden shed turned recording space. There’s a dusty southern influence on Lefty reminiscent of another mid-fi folk duo from Texas, Hovvdy. As Hovvdy have […]
Bring Your “Plus One” to The War and Treaty
Coming to The Sinclair in Cambridge on April 6th, The War and Treaty are an electrifying country, r&b, and gospel crossover band.
The Backfires to Light Up Cambridge on Feb 4th
The Backfires’ debut album This is Not an Exit is pure, class A, 00’s indie sleaze. They dangle their Interpol influences with song titles like “Turn Off The Lights,” as well as “Matador,” and from The Cribs to The Killers, The Backfires show they are cut from the same cloth as the best of the […]
Allston Pudding’s Staff Picks of 2024
We all picked our favorite non-local music from the past year. Albums, songs, gigs, and then everyone makes up a category of their own.