No, the title of this post isn’t in reference to any kind of government breakdown. Harvard Square’s Democracy Center, a hub of operations for meeting spaces, performances, and Boston’s largest zine library (where you can grab olde time zines featuring the likes of punk, hardcore, e[...]
Archive for February, 2009
February 24th, 2009 - 6:30 pm § in Perfect Lines
Parents Just Don't Understand
Yesterday the Lousiville Parenting Examiner posted an article by Lori Soard that is an outright flagrant, piss-poor excuse for journalism. Yellow journalism wouldn’t even want to have anything to do with this article. By this point, there have been numerous poorly-contrived articles and ̶[...]
February 24th, 2009 - 12:42 am § in Perfect Lines
P.O.S. on Emo Rap
As mentioned in a previous post, P.O.S. (otherwise known as Stefon Alexander) was just in town to perform at Harper’s Ferry in support of his newest album, Never Better. I interviewed Alexander via email for Bostonist in time for his visit. Of course, as curious as ever, I asked about emo-rap.[...]
February 22nd, 2009 - 2:53 pm § in Perfect Lines
Little People
Tonight, the Academy Awards will be passed out to folks who may or may not have made the best films of the year, depending on who you’re talking to. (Seriously though, nothing for JCVD? That was – surprisingly – one of the best films I saw last year.) Anyway, below are my predictio[...]
February 21st, 2009 - 1:39 am § in Perfect Lines
Awesome Deal/Evil…?
Deep Elm, the independent label that came to fruition in the 90s and put a structured face on the then-still-ambiguous term “emo” with their “Emo Diaries” series, is giving away their newest emo-themed sampler for free online. It’s the “Emo Is Awesome/Emo Is Evil&[...]
February 19th, 2009 - 11:53 pm § in Perfect Lines
House
Next Friday, Allston shall have quite a show in the neighborhood: House shows are the creme of the crop in underground punk… it’s where garage rock, hardcore, post-hardcore, emo, grunge… so many great genres came to fruition. And with Oh! Pioneers headlining, it should be a great o[...]
February 18th, 2009 - 11:47 pm § in Perfect Lines
Don't (Touch and) Go
From the looks of a post early in the day by Stereogum, one would have thought it was the end of the aural world for fans of underground music. Although the reports later in the day dismissed the rumors that Touch and Go Records was finished; instead, the still dreadful news that the label will [...[...]
February 17th, 2009 - 11:50 pm § in Perfect Lines
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In a good-natured piece in one of the many blogs run by The New York Times entitled, “‘Emo Lincoln’ Gets the Flickr Treatment,” Noam Cohen and Robert Mackey point out how the the following photo of Abraham Lincoln is tagged with the words “emo” and “punkR[...]
February 15th, 2009 - 11:16 pm § in Perfect Lines
Just Short…
So, for folks who’ve been following along in this blog, I submitted a proposal to Continuum’s 33 1/3 series to write a book about The Promise Ring’s Nothing Feels Good. Series editor David Barker emailed everyone who submitted a proposal today concerning those he picked to make it [...]