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Longtime talent buyer Alex Pickert spent years in Greater Boston’s DIY scenes before creating NICE, a fest. Now in its third year, the festival has expanded to include more bands and genres. ....
Sai Boddupalli (Courtesy Nick DiNatale) In the closing moments of Mercet’s “Mirst,” a recording of a man speaking fades into the lush, melancholic harmony of strings. “There are two parts associated with our self beyond the senses: The mind, and the intellect.” He continues: “If the mind is still, the senses are still; if the intellect is still, everything is still.” It’s the voice of Dr. Sekhar Boddupalli, a biochemist, Hindu spiritual leader and father of Sai Boddupalli, the Boston-based multi-instrumentalist and producer who now makes music as Mercet. Mercet (Courtesy Nick Surette) “He’s talking about using sound, the sound of religious chanting, or the sound of meditation to still your mind and thoughts and bring you closer to a spiritual objective,” Boddupalli tells me about his father’s appearance on his debut album “VIMS,” a deeply contemplative and emotive body of ambient electronic work released in early April. “I heard that and I ....
Left to right: Maya Mortman, Amy Hoffman, Daniel Radin and Colby Blauvelt of Future Teens. (Courtesy Adam Parshall) There’s a number of things that could define Boston’s breakthrough “bummer pop” quartet Future Teens: Their reverence of pop classics, their grindstone, DIY ambition, the wave of buzzworthy cover compilations with their names attached. But to its members, Future Teens is a sort of endless riff of their name, a slight piece of performance art. Listen to the first four tracks on the group’s new melodically polished EP “Deliberately Alive” (out now) and you’ll notice an earnestness and kinetic energy driving the machine. But instead of a triumphant closer, we’re gifted a twangy, somber arrangement of Cher’s 1998 smash pop hit “Believe.” ....