Ugly Moon / Field Day /

Ugly Moon is the music of brothers Mike & Matt Mowry, bassist Johnny McMahon, and drummer Ian McMillan. Known for delivering heavy, guitar-driven folk and indie rock with a raw, emotional core. Their sound is both retrospective and poignant, weaving between tender, contemplative melodies and aggressive, unfiltered intensity. Ugly Moon crafts songs that feel deeply personal yet universally resonant. Field Day formed proverbially, in a basement, and unexpectedly, when its members were well into middle age. Joan Anderman was a neophyte, having left her longtime post as rock critic at The Boston Globe and set out to become a songwriter. Her former Globe colleague Dan Zedek, veteran of numerous college bands, was sitting on a stash of songs written in his head while riding the train to work. The band's original drummer John Kehe offered his gear-filled basement for weekend song circles. The chemistry was potent. These songs and these songwriters belonged together. With the addition of bassist Iarla Ó hAllmhuráin and drummer Chuck Hargreaves, Field Day has become an unlikely upstart on the Boston club scene, playing rock music with scrappy hooks, dreamy harmonies, and irrepressible spirit. The Big Lonesome is a Boston-based indie rock band crafting emotionally charged songs about love, isolation, and the search for community, blending alt-rock, Americana, and shoegaze into a sound that has drawn comparisons to Dinosaur Jr. and Wilco. Since gaining national radio attention with their debut EP, the band has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada, evolving into a flexible collective centered around songwriter Chad Gosselin. Their latest album, Modern Trauma, was released in 2024 on Sprinkletime Records.