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Photo by Sarah Mentus After being blown away by shallow pools at this year's In Between Days, I'm thrilled to bring you a new single from the Boston based indie-pop quartet. "Golden," which was co-written by Lynn Gunn of Pvris and Cameron Walker-Wright of Twin XL and The Ready Set, is right on the border of what would normally be too pop for my personal taste, but shallow pools just make it work. It's a chilled out pop song that resides in that mid-tempo area where it's a little too calm to dance but too upbeat to just chill out to. It's going to inspire you to move at least a little, and has an impossible to resist upbeat vibe. shallow pools says of their new single: “Living in the moment is hard when you know that the ending is inevitable.  We’ve all experienced the feeling of being stuck between happiness and existential dread, and we wanted to convey that feeling in ‘Golden’.” You can watch the video for "Golden" below. I Think About It All t...

Towards the end of Modest Mouse's headlining set on Saturday night, Isaac Brock commented that he can normally ignore about half of the bands during a festival, but In Between Days just kept making him want to watch every band from the very start of the day. I ended up having the same experience. When I looked at the schedule, there were some bands I wasn't that familiar with or hadn't been able to get into previously, so I figured I'd have some downtime to casually eat some food from the food trucks, or play some free classic arcade games at the pop-up arcade, but instead for ten hours (ok, at one point I did stop to shove a quesadilla in my face for five minutes) I was just blown away watching band after band after band! I got there a couple of minutes late, and Quincy's own Gypsy Moths were already rocking the Arbella Insurance stage. Their classic Boston garage rock set the stage for the festival perfectly without sounding anything like any of the other bands on...