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Photo via Facebook It's been five years since Puppy Problems released their debut album, but luckily they are back with new music. The Boston band have released "Rainbow Flag," which is less about rainbow flags than it is about the changing musical landscape of the city. The song is an odd bedroom country song that meanders around a twangy, heartfelt story about record stores that no longer host shows and friends' homes now occupied by Harvard students. It also talks about how we can never appreciate the present because we're always obsessed with the past. And it does all this in under two minutes. You can listen to "Rainbow Flag" below. Winter in Fruitland  is due out September 22 on Anything Bagel, and is available for pre-order via Bandcamp . For more on Puppy Problems, check out the artist on Facebook . Winter In Fruitland by Puppy Problems

Photo via Facebook One thing that quarantine has given us is a bunch of benefit compilations featuring one-off songs from some of our favorites. Outlive the Sun: ERASED! Tapes benefit comp is from Boston label ERASED! Tapes featuring sixty nine (nice...) tracks to benefit Cosecha, which is raising money to help undocumented immigrants in the U.S. facing financial hardships due to COVID-19, and Families for Justice as Healing, which is working to end the incarceration of women and girls. One of the songs on this compilation is from Puppy Problems. Their song, "Villain Story," is a stripped down near folk track, but much more along the lines of 90's bedroom recordings. It's just vocals and a quietly fuzzy guitar drawing the listener in. Hearing songs with this sound happens less and less frequently, and for those of us raised on this sound, "Villain Story" will be like a warm blanket of nostalgia. You can listen to "Villain Story" below. The so...