Once again, our weekly news roundup, where we at Allston Pudding round up all the news from the week!
Local Jawn-
- Local singer-songwriter Kalyn Rock released her new Heart Contagious EP.
- Statik Selektah streamed his upcoming album, Extended Play, a week before its release, featuring both local and national MCs.
- JP-based label BUFU launched a brand new website.
- Speedy Ortiz released another new track from their much anticipated debut LP.
- Quilt released a new video for their track “Open Eyes.”
- Local semi-supergroup Doom Lover released their debut track “Yellow & Green.”
- Fat History Month released a new track called “Sad History Month” off of their upcoming split with My Dad.
- Gentlemen Hall announced U.S. tour dates.
- J Cole played a pop up show at the Paradise for $1.
National Jawn-
- Okkervil River announced their a new album, The Silver Gymnasium, will be released September 3rd.
- Newport Folk Festival announced their new west coast festival, Way Over Yonder, which will take place October 5-6 at Santa Monica Pier.
- Eli “Paperboy” Reed released a new track called “WooHoo.”
- Montreal’s Suuns announced European and U.S. tour dates.
- Kim Deal has unfortunately left the Pixies.
- Alt rock legends The Replacements announced their first shows in 22 years.