We do give a damn about your bad reputation (we like it).

Have you seen the latest Freak Scene? This week, featuring CT band the Sawtelles, plus the intersection of indie rock and pizza in New Haven: buttondown.com/freakscene/a...

2 years ago, a young band named Outro put out a record and was thrilled when @rosyoverdrive.com found us and even liked us.

Outro the band is marked "safe" after today's storms.

Carmelo Anthony spotted at Lonesome Brothers gig at Abandoned City, eg

What's great about being a Western Mass band is that every year some guys get inducted into the NBA hall of fame and COULD turn up at the Iron Horse or something.

Its more of a saxophone solo than a question really

people have all kinds of takes about this but as a student one of my greatest strengths was I whip ass at Blue Book exams. I have read the material and can riff on it, on command. If life had kept offering me Blue Book exams I would own half of California

today's indie rock shoegaze zoomers simply don't have the guts or life experience to write a song about seeing a werewolf with a chinese menu in his hand

Lots of things happening this fall for the Outro band of Western MA. Stay tuned.

Freak Scene time! This week, come for Echo Royale's wistful cover of "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World, stay for their dark, alluring electro-pop sound. Also, Colrain, Mass., has a hip-hop scene, though it might just be one guy. buttondown.com/freakscene/a...

Obligatory New Bads repost from member of Outro who knew them Back Then.

Item #3: the John Peel disclaimer - radio rules when it comes to discovery. My list is so long but the one I remember best is hearing ‘I Suck’ by the New Bad Things on Peel one day & it just overwhelmed me. Ditto ‘Trigger Cut’ on the Evening Session.

Seen at last night's show - one @perennialtheband.bsky.social shirt. One "Def Leppard sucks" shirt worn by someone who actually liked Def Leppard. One @learnedleague.com shirt. Heard at last night's show - much good loud music. Adam Reid + the In-betweens, Twin Foxes, Freezing Cold - awesome night.

I know it seems like this isn't tomorrow but it totally is.

New in Freak Scene, Mal Devisa is just breathtakingly good at a whole lot of stuff. And Oliver Wood of the Wood Brothers fills me in on mindfulness before the trio opens a tour in Western Mass. next week. Check it out: buttondown.com/freakscene/a...

You cannot hide the soul.

Next Saturday, Holyoke MA, the birthplace of volleyball, will also be the birthplace of this excellent evening of independent rock.

The countdown to this actually happening is happening. And I think you will enjoy it.

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

It's time for a show, I do believe. Watch us walk the high wire at Holyoke Media, with a line up of slaughteringly good bands. August 2nd.

We're big in Portugal (eating too many pasteis de nata). #big #in #portugal

Uh oh folks, new @snakelipsmusic.bsky.social single today! snakelips.bandcamp.com/track/east-c...

The Rehearsal season 2.

Major Outro inspiration record. If there was pinterest for band vibes, we would have pinned this.

Outro: not in the Epstein Files we think.

they call us ootro in the north

curds & whey hit different on a tuffet

Can tree pollen defeat Indie Rock? This Western Mass band says: yes.

Excellent vibes at this weekend's show. Great work Les Derailleurs and Always Manic. Great work mini-splits at JJs. Looking forward to more.

Bandcamp Friday you say? You know what to do, America. And Canada. And I guess Germany and other places.

Blowing 'country shuffle' and 'how we played it first' out of the water.

Good news, people: the Kraut Rock version of new song 'Kiss of Death' WINS BAND DEBATE and will now be featured at our gig tomorrow.

As someone who has performed in the field for 17+ years, I can find things I don't like about the work of any professional wrestler, past or present. As a grown-ass adult, I also know that every performer brings something special, and life is better when you enjoy things, rather than nitpick.

I can’t listen to this. My dad died in a funky town

There is only one way to find out if our songs are written by AI and that is to come to this show.

Famous, canonical "the first" diarist Samuel Pepys setting the stage for 400 years of diaries about trying to get people to make out with you.

Also it is much easier to park in Florence, MA than it is in Florence, Italy.

Nomen est omen, which is why you can always count on our songs to end.

I spent this past weekend recording with The Documents up in Goshen, MA in an old barn converted to a studio. This new record of ours is going to sound so good. Now if I can just figure out how to use my watch as a camera remote and a timer... #westernmass #music

Attn: @repeatingcloud.com (aka our amazing label).

People, we are looking forward to this one: Friday, May 2 at JJ's in the Florence of Massachusetts - just like the Florence of Italy but without the tourists/Uffizi.

Also useful: radio.garden, vintageobscura.net, downloading music and uploading it to Plex :)

Adding to the list - @rosyoverdrive.com for wide-ranging introductions to local scenes and @erdanton.bsky.social's Freak Scene newsletter for Western Mass in particular.

invisible hand of the market just tearily jerking off at this stage

Not enjoying the current wave of post punk rhythm section deaths. Please take care, Graham Lewis.

Have you listened yet to Perennial's new EP, "Perennial '65?" You should, and then check out my Q&A with guitarist Chad Jewett in the latest Freak Scene newsletter: buttondown.com/freakscene/a...

Big seafood day, featuring the nefarious plot of Pegg Pen's crab.

Check out Outro drummer Noam's amazing new record with his band The Lucky Shots. We might have to let him sing some.

Outro definitely needs a flageolette player.