We won’t call it a movement, or any other music-media-generated term, but there sure as fuck is something happening around Eastern Massachusetts these days when it comes to guitar bands crafting fuzzed out, surfed up, face down noise-pop. Last week saw the release of the House of the Rising Fuzz compilation, and we’re on the brink of the largest and most ambitious Boston Fuzzstival yet — Illegally Blind’s three-day, 34-band showcase at the Middle East that runs this Thursday to Saturday.
We guess you can tie together a lot of these bands — from Creaturos to The Televibes to Midriffs, whose new video we premiered yesterday — under the tag of “fuzz punk”, but we admit that kinda sounds silly. Whatever you want to call it, the noise is real, and it’s starting to get louder.
Another band from those circles, Middleboro’s Black Beach, have been sand-blasting away with a string of self-releases of the past few years, and now gear up for debut LP Shallow Creatures, recorded at Q Division under the Converse Rubber Tracks campaign and due sometime in the beginning of 2016.
The first song off that album is “Self Portrait”, a midnight ripper of grungy pop that somehow manages to still jam out midway through. Black Beach will be throwing down at the Fuzzstival this Saturday at 8:35 p.m., sandwiched between sets by Doug Tuttle and Vundabar, so check your local online listings and start crafting your own self portrait to the sweet salty sounds rising up from the dirty underground.
2015 Fuzzstival flyer design by John Magnifico…
