Oilhead Boston
The female-fronted five-piece has brought audiences from break dancing to slam dancing in the span of a few seconds with
what Timeout Boston calls a "trance-core/pop-punk hybrid tailor-made to go over like gangbusters on Warped Tour."
With songs about bad jobs, bad romance and bad decisions, critics have compared Oilhead's sound to a "synth-metal Rise Against and a pissed off Paramore."
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