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THE JUNKYARD: SUMMER SONGS TO DROP YOUR PANTS TO, AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS
It’s summertime and clothes are skimpier, hook ups are hotter and the wealth of shitty pop music is flooding our stereos. Traditionally these things have always come together this time of year and we...
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AGE RINGS: BLACK HONEY
GENRE | INDIE-HYPHEN-POP VERDICT | FACEBOOK “LIKE” LABEL | SELF-RELEASED RELEASE | 11.5.11 AGERINGS1.BANDCAMP.COM Here’s one—Hipster walks into a conversation about ’80s alternative. “Hey. What’s your...
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BOSTON ON BOSTON: DAN GOLDIN | EXPLODING IN SOUND BLOG
EXPLODINGINSOUND.COM @EXPLODINGNSOUND FAVORITE NEW RELEASE/TRACK/MIX: Without a doubt my favorite Boston record (or damn near anywhere else) of 2013 is Fat History Month‘s Bad History Month. No one...
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REPORTING LIVE: RIOT FEST CHICAGO, SUNDAY, SEPT. 15
By all means, a rain storm can be a death sentence to a successful outdoor music festival. Someone is going to get electrocuted or people will have an asinine mud fight. Neither were the case here,...
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REPORTING LIVE: RIOT FEST CHICAGO
It’s Chicago’s Riot Fest with photos of Fall Out Boy, Saves the Day, Rancid, and Danzig performing live and nude! (One of those adjectives is lying.) Back in June, the Dig made summer plans for...
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CLOUD CONTROL: DREAM CAVE
GENRE | ELECTRIC HAZE VERDICT | LAY IN A FIELD LABEL | INFECTIOUS MUSIC RELEASE | 9.17.13 Since their last album (2010′s Bliss Release), Cloud Control has spent the in-between years living and writing...
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STRICTLY LOCAL: MISS GEO
Meet Boston’s newest indie pop tarts: Miss Geo, the electro-pop creation of Rhode Island-born Abby Gutierrez (vocals/guitar) and French national Paz—“Just Paz, like Prince!”—(backing vocals/synth)....
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LOU REED (1942-2013)
The rock world lost a deity of the highest order this weekend with the passing of Lou Reed. Though cause of death is still unknown, the New York Times is reporting through Reed’s literary agent that a...
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FOTOBOM: THE BREEDERS @ PARADISE ROCK CLUB, WEDNESDAY 12.18.13
During junior high, our home room period would begin with Channel One news updates from around the world. The station was a welcome distraction from battling morning wood, presenting valuable awareness...
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REVIEW: POTTY MOUTH @ CAFE 9
New Haven is a strange city. It’s home to the best “apizza” place in Connecticut, the sixth largest city population in New England, and arguably the country’s top ivy league school (Hello, Yale, yo?)....
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INTERVIEW: PIXIES’ DAVID LOVERING
Photo credit: Michael Halsband When interviewing an act like the Pixies, the initial urge is to let 20 years of pent up fandom come pouring out in a fury of stalker-like questioning. And most of the...
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HEAR OF THE RAT: GET READY FOR A POP-UP SONIC ODYSSEY THROUGH THE SOUL OF THE...
Legendary Kenmore Square festering petri dish of an iconic and career-launching rock club, The Rathskeller, needs no introduction here. But if it does, say if you weren’t even born yet when it launched...
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Get ready for a pop-up sonic odyssey through the soul of the iconic rock club
View ArticleBREAKING: BOSTON CALLING LANDS BECK, MY MORNING JACKET + PIXIES FOR SPRING 2015
Beck, The Pixies, Run the Jewels, Krill and a lineup worth getting your faced scanned by secret cameras for.
View ArticleBREAKING: BOSTON CALLING LANDS BECK, MY MORNING JACKET + PIXIES FOR SPRING 2015
Beck, The Pixies, Run the Jewels, Krill and a lineup worth getting your faced scanned by secret cameras for.
View ArticleBOSTON KRILLING: FESTIVAL OPENERS DREAM OF TENACIOUS D
For local indie rockers Krill, the best part of playing Boston Calling is being beside Tenacious D.
View ArticleDAY TWO: GIRLS RUN THE WORLD AT BOSTON CALLING
In a sea of sexist festivals, Boston Calling lets women run the world thanks to St. Vincent and Marina and the Diamonds.
View ArticleDAY THREE: PIXIES MAKE BOSTON CALLING PROUD
Boston Calling Spring 2015 wrapped up with a Pixies' homecoming return that made Boston rightfully proud.
View ArticleSURPRISE: PIXIES ARE PLAYING T.T. THE BEAR’S TONIGHT
The Pixies are playing a 300-person show at T.T. the Bear's Place tonight because the world is wonderful.
View ArticleSWEET GOODBYE: PIXIES SURPRISE SHOW AT TT THE BEAR’S PLACE 6/18
T.T.’s is dead, long live T.T.’s.
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