Songs of Summer is a guide to the summer’s new tunes that evoke sensations of everyone’s favorite season. Today’s jam is: Bodega Girls – “We Are Losers” Bodega Girls have been toiling away in Boston’s music scene for some time now. Their new single, “We Are Losers,” is a great reflection of their city’s odd … [Read more…]
I recently wrote a piece on all-ages shows and DIY venues in Chicago for Medill. The article went online Tuesday, and comes with a (brief) sister piece about the history of all-ages and DIY shows in America, a video and slideshow of a couple of venues and a handful of graphs and photos of these shows. … [Read more…]
It’s hard to sum up an entire year of pop music in one concise “best of” list. Instead, here’s a tidy little look at some of the highs and lows in pop music over the past year: Hip-Huh?: The New Yorker‘s Sasha Frere-Jones declared that hip-hop was dead and upset a lot of hip-hop heads. … [Read more…]
Late Night Jamz is an ongoing feature dedicated to newly discovered tracks that are sure to get stuck in your head. Uncovered in the wee hours of the evening just before bed after a long day of work or play, these are the gems that make the adventures in finding music so enjoyable. Tonight’s track … [Read more…]
Another day, another forgetters/Blake Schwarzenbach post. Now, the band has a blog. Does this make it official? Well, it sure is nice of them to post some show info… and the band is hitting up some places that Thorns of Life overlooked… including Boston! Here are the dates, with more info on the blog: 9/18: … [Read more…]
I’d been meaning to post this up for quite a while, and here goes… I met up with Geoff Farina, frontman of the now-defunct and beloved band Karate, for an interview to be included in America Is Just A Word. Karate is one of a handful of bands that really challenged the ideals for what … [Read more…]
I rarely read The Metro, the free daily rag in Boston and other US locations (and yes, “rag” is the appropriate term here). But, the following listing that I peeked at while scrolling through the paper today takes the cake: Entertainment ‘The NeverEnding Story’ Sunday and Monday Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St., Cambridge MBTA: Red … [Read more…]
It’s hard to turn down a free concert, even if that means watching Taking Back Sunday. Especially considering the underlying theme o’ this blog. I’ve never been entirely “in” to TBS. Just something about them never really caught me, even though I was their prime target when they first hit it big. I can understand the … [Read more…]
Saw the above t-shirt at Warped on Tuesday. It may just be a shirt, but nowadays fashion is oft as important – if not the important – as the music that a band chooses to define itself. In My So Called Punk, Matt Diehl notes the clashes between “emo” kids and traditional “punk” kids at Warped … [Read more…]
Thank goodness for email posting… otherwise I might not have gotten this stuff up! Another Sunny Day Real Estate reunion date has been tossed online, this time by the monolith known as Ticketmaster: United States Of America (1) • OCT • 3 SAT Center Stage Theatre Atlanta, GA 09:00 PM Sunny Day Real Estate More … [Read more…]