Up against the Grammy’s and everyone’s self-important live-tweeting, the sonic tanks rolled hard through the rugged land of Boston rock and pop this Sunday evening. We debuted a few jams, recapped On The Download’s constant stream of local rock club news and rumors, and had a lovely time hyping up a shit ton of upcoming gigs around town.

Here's tonight's BOSTON ACCENTS playlight, which began with a rock and roll middle finger to New York and ended with another heartbreaking football loss for our dear region. Ugh. I tried to position tonight's show towards the anti-sports crowd, threw in some experimental stuff and the this-and-that, but here I am at 10:05 p.

Was just on WFNX a few minutes ago, talking about a few bedroom pop tracks that have been showing up with regularity on my Boston Accents playlist. After Dom created "Living In America" on the strength of a computer program, a pink paisley guitar and his beautiful musical mind, one-man-jams are all the rage. We guess.

Feeling frisky and festive on this easy Sunday evening in late January, and tonight’s playlist is an eclectic mix of experimental weirdness and Boston beats. Got a bit bedroom-y pop-minded at the beginning, then it just turned into whatever. See you next Sunday for a Super Bowl edition of BOSTON ACCENTS – maybe we’ll only play Bostonians who have since moved to NYC to salute the battle between the Patriots and Giants.

On a Sunday where the New England Patriots advanced to the Super Bowl XLVI, we premiered new jams from Muscle Milk, Sand Reckoner, Garvy J., and DJ/producer George Vala, who led the debut of the Boston Mix Up segment. Been a long week, so I’ll let the playlist speak to the rest. See you next Sunday at 8pm, thanks for listening.

Not bad Coachella, not bad at all.

This year's music and arts fest in the California desert multiplies itself over two consecutive weekends this April, and upon first lineup glance, the list of performing acts seems lighter than in year's past, perhaps a result of the doubling-up festival organizers are experimenting with in 2012 (April 13-15, 20-22).

It's the CLASS OF 2012 edition of Boston Accents, where we had some bands hang out in the WFNX studio, spun the entire compilation -- which you can download for free via our Bandcamp -- and just had a merry ol' time, discussing everything from new music to upcoming shows to witch haus to Road House. Huge thanks to GLASS TEETH, GHOST BOX ORCHESTRA, YOUNG LONDON, LEISURE (who gave us a new track, "The Invisible Hand," to premiere), ANIMAL TALK, DIRTY VIRGINS, CALEB GROH, and CAMDEN (who rolled up mad late) for taking the trek up to Lynn.

Class of 2012 cover darlings YOUNG LONDON are about to blow up. After the electro-pop duo's first single "Let Me Go" provided the December soundtrack to scores of holiday shoppers in malls across the country, their debut full-length finally drops via Fugitive Records this Tuesday. To celebrate, Matt and Sarah hit the Middle East on January 17 for some hot, sweaty, record-release party action, but you can lay your eyes and ears on this teaser trailer that hit YouTube earlier today.

When it comes to Lansdowne, WFNX is letting the locals run with the big dogs. First it was Earthquake Party playing with Surfer Blood at Disorientation Night 2 a few weeks ago, then this past Friday it was Mean Creek taking the big stage at the House of Blues for the second Miracle holiday show alongside Matt & Kim and Mutemath (it was M-M-M good, k?).

A somber start to Boston Accents tonight, as we pour one out for DUSTIN HENGST of DAMONE, who passed away last week at the age of 39. The talented drummer was hospitalized for a few weeks with liver problems, and had been battling illness most of his life. The details and band reaction are in my On The Download post from Friday, but here we'll celebrate the music of Damone, which released three awesome records between 2002 and 2008, toured the world, and made a mark on Boston rock.

Ahoy! Missed y’all, as it’s been a few weeks since I’ve been in the FNX studio, thanks to the Boston Music Awards and Flashback Weekend. But we’re in the closing stretch of 2k11, so we’re looking at some of the better tracks released this year, as well as tucking some new jams in before the gates of time close forever.

Starting at 7pm tomorrow night -- just in time to tune-out relatives arriving from out-of-town -- WFNX goes into Flashback mode. Storm Zbel kicks off a holiday slate that stretches into Sunday night, when Julie Kramer serves up a Local Leftover edition of Boston Accents and Kurt St Thomas returns to the East Coast airwaves with "Nirvana: Nevermind It's An Interview."

Many questions will be answered at Sunday night's highly-anticipated BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS party at the swank-ass Liberty Hotel. Among the hot topics...

-- Can our favorite rapping Town-ie SLAINE take home as many as five BMAs (for Artist, Album/EP, Song, Video and Hip Hop Artist of the Year)?

-- Can thrice-nominated indie rock risers MEAN CREEK score an Artist-of-the-Year sweep in both the Phoenix 2011 Best Music Poll and these here BMAs?

We once voted this the second greatest concert ever to happen in Boston: the legendary gig played by NIRVANA on the night before Nevermind was released, at WFNX's 8th birthday party at Axis. We just celebrated this gig's 20th anniversary -- Bullet LaVolta drummer Todd Philips, who opened the gig, wrote about it for us last month -- and we just heard the tapes of the Smashing Pumpkins set a few weeks ago

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Last Friday at the House of Blues, Fitz & the Tantrums brought their soul-inflected indie pop to Boston. Right before the band's encore performance of their hit "Moneygrabber," singer/songwriter Michael "Fitz" Fitzpatrick told the audience that the band likes to get down and party -- literally.