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Year In ReView: Our favorite Boston-ish songs of 2017

It's December 21, and we're just finally getting around to our annual list of favorite songs to come out of Boston in 2017. Two conclusions can be drawn from this -- first, the year was so packed that our Year End obligations were pushed back to the very last minute, and secondly, we kind of hate these posts. Through our New Sounds features and pages of Boston News posts, it's virtually impossible to come up with a full portrait of Boston's year in music. We hope that our dedicated coverage from January to December acts as our compass of what's good around town; this list here can be best described as a loose collection of our "faves." It's in no order, it's by no preference; these tracks stuck with us over the course of the calendar, and if you missed one or two when released, perhaps it can help fill in some blanks. Because it was a crazy good year for Boston music, and 2018 feels as promising as ever.

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Watts, “All Done With Rock n Roll”

For years, Boston was defined by its garage rock. While electronic music and hip-hop has come to reshape the city’s scene in recent years, this is a town that still appreciated a rock and roll ripper. Ironically enough, enter Watts’ and their gritty kiss-off “All Done With Rock n Roll,” a slashing, hip-shaking number that has us twirling in our office chairs. We’re pretty sure every crowd they perform this jim-jam to from here on our will be chanting back the hooky refrain until their lungs give out. Rock and roll is alive and well, as it turns out.

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