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[ROCK] In 2014, Dirty Smile earned a permanent place in the local rock cannon, opening for Weezer at Edgefest, and placing third in the Global Hard Rock Rising competition—both results of their killer stage presence and rhythmic rock cuts. Megan Brown’s voluminous voice is backlit by a no-nonsense band that massages soulful grooves into hard rock. Their bedrock force is their sticky rock melodies that seethe with red-hot energy.

[ALTERNATIVE ROCK] On Thursday, January 22, local alternative rock artists will pay tribute to their influences at Show Your Influence, a concert at the Forvm. The lineup reads like a brief summary of the evolution of alternative rock over the last two decades.

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] “Dupstep is totally the punk rock of electronic music,” says producer Troy Beetles, better known as Datsik. He views dubstep, like punk rock, as not only as an amalgamation of various styles of music—in this case U.K. garage, hip hop, and drum n’ bass—but as a form of hardcore music that is crafted by intuition and feeling rather than virtuosity.

Everything Jeremy Jermaine Jerome does forever alters the course of human history. Technically speaking, this is true of all people. Many of us have probably even felt connected to this principle at some point in our lives. He performs at Babeville’s Asbury Hall on Sunday, January 18. Read our full profile here.