Best band of last year happens to be one we discovered in December. There may be a psychological basis for this. Record labels often release certain albums at the end of the year on the expectation that critics preparing their top ten lists have already forgotten the beginning of the same year.
It’s not like that with local bands.

Tonight: The Wofts and Mihtohseeni Onki at The Bullfinch. They’ve rehearsed a band-merging finale… Evidence As To Man’s Place in Nature, college rock, at Hamilton’s… Baron of Fancamp, seriously, at D’ollaire’s. Not “an evening with,” either—full band, all-electric, endless set…