Ugly Moon / Field Day / Survivors of the Kraken

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. Survivors of The Kraken are a Southern New England rock trio whose roots stretch back to the early 2000s, when Allan, Brian, and Justin first began playing together as teenagers. Reunited after two decades apart, the band channels years of experience into their debut album Amid Life Crises, a raw, live-sounding collection recorded at Providence’s subModern Audio. The album has earned a New England Music Award nomination, airplay on more than 70 terrestrial radio stations, and a spot on the AMA Top 200.