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DOWNLOAD: Clouds, "Motion of the Ocean" (mp3) This ain’t your ordinary stoner metal. Yeah, the guitars on We Are Above You (Hydra Head) — the new second album from Cave In guitarist Adam McGrath’s Clouds — mostly exist in sludgy Sunn-amp ear...
DOWNLOAD: Aloud, "Fan the Fury" (mp3) It might not seem that much has changed between Aloud’ s debut full-length, Leave Your Light On , and their sophomore album, Fan the Fury . The band still traffic in bluesy power pop, which still centers...
Good news for the under-21 crowd (or anyone tiring of the Middle East - if that's even possible). Before Lyons and co. open up Boston's House of Blues , Berklee's beating them to the punch with a shiny new all-ages "200-person capacity...
DOWNLOAD: Township, "Sandy" (mp3) It’s been just less than a year since Township cemented their place in Boston rock history , joining the ranks of the Neighborhoods , the Dresden Dolls , and, uh, Slaughter Shack with a victory in the 29th Rock...
DOWNLOAD: State Radio, "Gang of Thieves" (mp3) The big news in the land of the kinda, sorta broken-up New England jam band Dispatch is the release of Dispatch: Zimbabwe — Live at Madison Square Garden (Concert Hot Spot), a DVD document of the...
Noel Heroux of Hooray for Earth (one of the worst-named bands of '07, according to the Onion ): "My Top 5 Songs Released in
2007" 1_Elliott Smith, "New Disaster" 2_Björk, "Wanderlust" 3_Malcolm Middleton, "We're...
The first time you hear the OUTBURST 's "New York Surprise," you'll wonder if this is it, the one: the absolute worst song you've ever heard. By the 20th time, you'll be singing the out-of-tune chorus -- "You fucking did...
Marissa Nadler : "My favorite records of the year" 1_ Phosphorescent , Pride [Dead Oceans] 2_ James Blackshaw , The Cloud of Unknowing [Tompkins Square] 3_ Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter , Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul...
DOWNLOAD: The Big Big Bucks, "Arsenal Complements Wardrobe" (mp3) Fresh-faced Allston foursome THE BIG BIG BUCKS blend the anvil-heavy blues rock of early Zeppelin with the melodicism of classic pop in a sod-off punk-rock sorta way that would...
Come, "Hurricane" (Live at the Middle East, 11/10/2007) Sure, it was only two songs. (Turns out they had a third ready to go, but decided against it. What, the applause wasn't loud enough? "Exactly," said Chris Brokaw.) But since...
Tiger Saw + Cathy Cathodic, "Words Not Used In Books" (Live at PA's Lounge, November 8, 2007) Tiger Saw, "Tigers on Fire" (Live at PA's Lounge, November 8, 2007) Our old pals (and former PHX tourbloggers ) Tigersaw are off...
The Rat's Last Stand: November 15, 1997 Any good scenester can tell you that November 15, 1997 was the date of the final gig ever played at Boston's legendary, notorious punk club, the Rat. The final band onstage was, appropriately enough, Gang...
We never knew Noah was so flexible. Every time a Boston band moves away (one of the good ones, anyway) one of the Pixies drops dead. Or something like that. From the Dead Trees’ MySpace : "Although we've had some good times here, The Dead Trees...
Damon & Naomi are calling their current tour “ The Roaring Silence Revue ,” a reference to the combination of their own subdued-but-steely folk sound and the deep-bass noise-rock of their tourmates, Japanese trio Boris . D&N are working their...
DOWNLOAD: Club D'Elf, "Halloween" (mp3) Not the Misfits song, but instead a setting of the Harry Behn kids' poem, in a musical setting that comes from an odd source: Club D'elf drummer Erik Kerr's mom, who used to sing this tune...