Sound OnThe ARTery’s ongoing Sound On series highlights rising local musicians.Sound On: With Pure Vocals And Brash Guitars, Squirrel Flower Writes Her Origin StoryThe music of Ella Williams, a.k.a. Squirrel Flower, is expansive and melancholy and preternaturally sensitive to the taut threads of power that run, invisible, through relationships.PlayThe ARTery06:42Mar 5, 2020Sound On: Ezra Furman Is Finally Making The Punk Music Of Her Teenage DreamsOut with a new soundtrack to the Netflix series "Sex Education," the singer-songwriter Ezra Furman is making Boston home.PlayThe ARTery10:52Feb 14, 2020In Sad Songs With Happy Melodies, Frances Forever Captures The Uncertainty Of Young AdulthoodThe bedroom pop act has attracted tens of thousands of streams on Spotify with her odd, yet accessible, songs.PlayThe ARTery07:06Aug 19, 2019Latrell James Was Ready To Drop An Album. Then He Decided To Start Over From ScratchThe Dorchester-born rapper adopted a different approach to crafting his songs. He stopped writing, started emoting. PlayThe ARTery04:39Jun 28, 2019Aubrey Haddard Finds Power In The Subtleties Of Her VoiceThe Cambridge-based musician has the kind of voice that divas are made of, and is well-poised for national success.PlayThe ARTery06:51Feb 6, 2019Cambridge Rock Outfit Billy Wylder Finds Its Roots In Resistance And Sound In ReverenceFrontman Avi Salloway's songs are urgent calls to action written over syncopated rhythms and mesmeric guitar riffs.PlayThe ARTery07:06Nov 7, 2018Boston Singer-Songwriter Anjimile Mines Blissful Melodies From Melancholy ThoughtsThe musician explores transgender dysphoria and mental health in their latest release, "Colors."PlayThe ARTery06:43Aug 2, 2018The Radical Ambition Of Billy Dean Thomas, The ‘Queer B.I.G.’"I’m more than just an emcee, I’m more than just whatever box people want to put me in," says the Boston-based artist. PlayThe ARTery07:21Jun 14, 2018Sidney Gish, Boston’s Bandcamp PhenomThe music of the rising bedroom pop sensation is marked by an adventurous impulse -- an eagerness to try, and even fail at, new things. PlayThe ARTery06:05Mar 28, 2018
Sound On: With Pure Vocals And Brash Guitars, Squirrel Flower Writes Her Origin StoryThe music of Ella Williams, a.k.a. Squirrel Flower, is expansive and melancholy and preternaturally sensitive to the taut threads of power that run, invisible, through relationships.PlayThe ARTery06:42Mar 5, 2020
Sound On: Ezra Furman Is Finally Making The Punk Music Of Her Teenage DreamsOut with a new soundtrack to the Netflix series "Sex Education," the singer-songwriter Ezra Furman is making Boston home.PlayThe ARTery10:52Feb 14, 2020
In Sad Songs With Happy Melodies, Frances Forever Captures The Uncertainty Of Young AdulthoodThe bedroom pop act has attracted tens of thousands of streams on Spotify with her odd, yet accessible, songs.PlayThe ARTery07:06Aug 19, 2019
Latrell James Was Ready To Drop An Album. Then He Decided To Start Over From ScratchThe Dorchester-born rapper adopted a different approach to crafting his songs. He stopped writing, started emoting. PlayThe ARTery04:39Jun 28, 2019
Aubrey Haddard Finds Power In The Subtleties Of Her VoiceThe Cambridge-based musician has the kind of voice that divas are made of, and is well-poised for national success.PlayThe ARTery06:51Feb 6, 2019
Cambridge Rock Outfit Billy Wylder Finds Its Roots In Resistance And Sound In ReverenceFrontman Avi Salloway's songs are urgent calls to action written over syncopated rhythms and mesmeric guitar riffs.PlayThe ARTery07:06Nov 7, 2018
Boston Singer-Songwriter Anjimile Mines Blissful Melodies From Melancholy ThoughtsThe musician explores transgender dysphoria and mental health in their latest release, "Colors."PlayThe ARTery06:43Aug 2, 2018
The Radical Ambition Of Billy Dean Thomas, The ‘Queer B.I.G.’"I’m more than just an emcee, I’m more than just whatever box people want to put me in," says the Boston-based artist. PlayThe ARTery07:21Jun 14, 2018
Sidney Gish, Boston’s Bandcamp PhenomThe music of the rising bedroom pop sensation is marked by an adventurous impulse -- an eagerness to try, and even fail at, new things. PlayThe ARTery06:05Mar 28, 2018
