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It's a cliche when festivals proclaim that this year is their biggest and best line up every single year, but when Nice, a fest does it, they mean it. 2023 marks their third year, and sees the festival expand to four days and seventy four (!!!!) bands. The festival will take place July 20-23 once again between Crystal Ballroom and The Rockwell in Somerville's Davis Square. If you went last year, you know that topping last year's killer line up was damn near impossible, but Get To The Gig Boston pulled it off. Once again Nice, a fest features an all local line up headlined by post-rock/emo legends Karate, indie rock legends Swirlies, dance-punk/neo-psychedelic favorites Guerilla Toss, singer-songwriter Frances Forever, alternative rockers Ovlov, alt-rockers Valleyheart, art rock band Bent Knee, neo-folk artist Izzy Heltai, indie rock/emo artist Dino Gala, and Boston legend Will Dailey. The undercard is equally as impressive, but we obviously can't list every band here, s...

Since I co-run a music blog, it's obvious I love music, especially discovering new artists. If you've been reading this blog with any regularity, you'll know that I particularly love the Boston music scene. My other huge obsession is discovering abandoned crap way out in the woods. Atlas Obscura has guided far too many weekends and day trips of mine. Apparently I'm not the only one with these two obsessions. Live From Nowhere is a new video series where they take an artist and have them perform out in the middle of nowhere, usually at an abandoned site. So far we've been promised videos at an abandoned railroad tunnel, an abandoned state hospital, and an abandoned railroad bridge. They've just premiered their debut video which features experimental collective Bent Knee performing in the snow at an abandoned 17th century stone house. I had no idea I wanted this series until today. You can watch Bent Knee's performance below. For more information on Live...