First off, click for the snazzy new website of Speaking in Code . Thanks to Nick Hubben (who designed this blog 5 or so years ago) for the great new look. Other big stuff continues to happen on the DVD front. Steve Mizek turned in a sparkling review of the film over at well-established electronic music website Little White Earbuds . He says Speaking in Code "successfully personalizes the realities of music obsessio n, from packed stadium triumphs to tribulations that require self-sacrifice in pursuit of satisfaction." [...]
New York City siblings Jessica and Cristi Jo are the epitome of pent up femmes on the prowl, oozing sex and violence and criminally fun intent as they co-lead Zambri, the five-piece dirty pop outfit. This is plain to see...
Illustration by Natalia Thorpe Words by Oliver Primus As far as 'buzz' bands go Passion Pit are pretty much up there at the peak. We were lucky to send the band some questions and this is what went down! Firstly, could you introduce your band to our readers ? im Nate, I play drums, Jeff plays bass, Ayad plays keys and synths, Ian plays keyboard and guitar, and Michael plays keys and sings. You boys are heading to UK for a [...]
In a town where being a hater is almost an Art, once in a while it's nice to recognize when people are doing their shit right. " Make it New " and " Heartthrob " for the past couple years have become a fixture in Boston's Midweek nightlife and a lifestyle to dozens of Glamorous Kids on a Hipster bandwagon that seems to have more lives than Felix the Housecat (o_O). Whether it's the Music, or the need to be immortalized on David Day's Camera, the crowd that heads over to Cambridge weekly has at least shown this Basstown [...]
Tonight's feature is a mix that my buddy Beep sent over to me, titled BeepBeat's Nuclear Winter Mixtape . I could intro the mix myself, but I think it'd be appropriate to have the creator explain it for himself: When preparing this mix, I felt it was most appropriate to focus on the past. I grew up with Nick since the 4th grade, where we shared the same focus on music all the way through high school, trading the latest import CD's and vinyl rips in homeroom. While I mostly focused on electronic [...]
FOLKY, NOT FOLKSY: Sarah Palin couldn't compete with the Dodos last Thursday. Even though the Dodos' show a week ago Thursday at the Museum of Fine Arts sold out, the San Franciscan duo were aware of a conflicting engagement. "Welcome to the 2008 Vice-Presidential Debates," singer Meric Long joked with ironic solemnity. The timing was all the two events had in common. Whereas Sarah Palin spewed folksy, confused verbiage, the Dodos (signed to Les Savy Fav's Frenchkiss Records last December) played endearingly folk -y music [...]
As recent history suggests, internet arguments about Boston DJs can turn pretty damn ugly . Allow us to introduce a more civil form of combat: the 2008 WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll . Advantages? No name-calling . No unsubstatiated accusations of train-wrecking . No people-fake-posting-as-other-p eople . And, we promise, no Rick rolls . Instead, just click here and tell us who you think is best . Or, if you need to get familiar, start downloading below. Brief intros for the uninitiated: Upstart Die Young has gotten [...]
In the recent profile on, er, me in the Weekly Dig (click above for the large scan), editor/champion Michael Brodeur makes special mention of the old Other Music Cambridge location, a store which spun off of the New York branch in 2000 and was the reason sQuare productions came to Boston in the first place. A lot of folks were surprised or did not know we had a lot to do with Other Music. The shop hosted numerous in-store performances from the Clientele, Aesop Rock, Arab [...]
So I'd been waiting for Baltimoroder's killer (train) track for ages, but somehow completely missed it once it finally arrived . If you can listen to this and not experience an unbearable urge to dance, then...please seek help . Quad City DJ's - C'mon Ride The Train (Baltimoroder's Halftime Remix) And while you're at it, check out Bmoroder's god-dammit-if-only-I-were-in-B oston Thunderdome Mix .
sQuare Productions
THE CULTURE OF ME
The 405
MANIFEST DESTITUTE
redthreat
Beginning to See the Light
On The Download
home taping
Mega Round Up Time
Ghost...
Drake - "Yamaha Mama" ft. Chris Brown
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