One of the busiest, most visible members of Boston’s thriving DIY music scene, singer-songwriter Matt Charette plays his own brand of hard-hitting, punk-laced Americana. “Or,” as Charette put it recently, “whatever reformed-punk version of bastardized Americana I’ve come up with. I was inspired by alt-country stuff like Son Volt and Whiskeytown, but—and I will die on this hill—I am a reformed punk. At home, I’ll put on the Louvin Brothers and end up listening to London Calling.” With and without his band The Truer Sound, he has opened for Lucero, Lydia Loveless, Two Cow Garage, and Everlast; and played the Mighty Sounds Festival in the Czech Republic. His new album Lo Fi High Hopes comes out March 10, 2023
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