The culmination of unapologetic youthfulness, boys cruise storm into your ears with a sense of urgency on their unkempt yet accessible self titled record. Hailing from the very active music scene surrounding the University of Vermont, Boys Cruise consist of two members of the noise-punk group, Pons, a group who I am no stranger to, having covered them in the past on this very site. On their self titled release, boys cruise create songs that have more accessibility than I woul

Some of the most formative moments of my musical taste have come by way of playing sport video games when I was younger. I still play some of these songs and listen to them on repeat to this day. I would spend hours playing games like FIFA and Madden, not because I loved the gameplay, but because I was so entranced by the musical selections in these menus. The music I enjoy now is very much informed by my love of the tracks that graced these games in the mid 2000’s and the ea

Painting Over Mold by Graham Hunt feels like putting on a blanket that you’ve had in your attic for years, but forgotten all about. It feels like something that you’ve interacted with before, but know you haven’t. Graham has a way of connecting his music to people unlike any musician that I have seen before. There is a sense of familiarity, but yet uncertainty throughout the entirety of Painting Over Mold that I’m not sure anyone else could possibly recreate. The Madison base