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We apologize in advance: every time we see the name of this band, we get a dreadfully un-PC reflex image in our head of Cibo Matto shouting the word "Delicious!"
So there's a new band on Metal Blade. And, y'know, this is the pretty much the label that every speedmetal kid worshipped in the '80s. Now it's 2006, and they've found some kids who play really authentic-sounding '86-'88 Bay Area thrash with deathmetalcore vocals.
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The awsomest part of 2005 -- the year blogging broke -- was finding out we shared a city with people like Wayne and the rest of the Riddim Methodists, Chris Lemon Red (who in the long tradition of Boston outsourcing promptly got famous and moved to Brooklyn), dem Bananerz Bwoys, Makka, and the Compound 440r kids. -
Y'know what we learned this year? The Lot Six: you can't beat 'em, you can only hope to contain 'em. We'd give them shit for not putting out their freakin awesome unreleased album Get Baked on Youth Kulture except that all their members have been off collaborating on all kinds of other projects. This profusion of creativity has got Sixers forward Dave Vicini talking art collective -- which, as any self-respecting Elephant 6 fan or Broken Social Scenester can tell you, is just how-indie-do right now. -
Too funny. It's like if someone said, "Oh, yeah -- Ashlee Simpson just held up a bank."
Howie Day, for those who don't remember, was this real young kid from Maine who started out singing cover songs at frat bars, but somehow [and by somehow we mean bidding war] ended up signed to Epic on the let's-make-him-the-next-John-Mayer plan. -
First Cassette announced their break-up only for fronthottie and drama mamma Nate to bitch about gettin' too much love from the press two months later when they decide to reunite.
From a Cassette MySpace bulletin:"Well, it was supposed to be an unadvertised chance for Michael and I to "put our feet back in the water" after taking two months off.
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Whip it good.
Proving that they really have been paying attention to what's going on in music all these years, Devo have once again kicked pop muzak on its ear -- by embracing their inner They Might Be Giants or Kidz Bop or Mousketeers or something. No joke, Disney is actually putting out a Devo record . . -
Our friend Kelly Davidson is a former Phoenix staffer and rock photographer extraordinaire: her Rockers-with-Kids photo-essay got some deservedly awesome reviews earlier this year [not just saying that 'cause OTD and daughters were in it]. Last week she stepped out from behind the lens, gathered a bunch of local rock celebrities -- including a Dresden Doll, a Confidence Man, a Bourbon Princess, and a lesbian rapper -- and recorded a cover of one of our favorite holiday tunes: Low's "Just Like Christmas." -
We'll be reminding you throughout the next week, but OTD is moving next Wednesday -- new server, new URL, and -- for those of you who do the RSS thing -- a new feed. As of December 28 we'll be at thephoenix.com/onthedownload. Some people have assumed that our low-rent look over here is a conscious aesthetic choice (ha!), but really it's just because when Cami and OTD started this thing back in April, this is literally the best we could do.
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. . . Five golden rings . . .
1. We've said it before, we'll say it again: the Click Five are the Monkees/Dave Clark Five version of what we always thought Waltham should be. Case in point: their meticulously-crafted Christmas single, atomically engineered to steer teens from MySpace to the mall . . .
"I got a cell phone, trampoline, a year's worth of magazine
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1. Swear on our autographed Nick Cave novel, we emailed Tia the other day, all like, "We should do a Christmas post. Think anyone's got Christmas songs?" Then walked to our mailbox and found a package with a return address that said "Ho Ho Ho-Ag." While the envelope had OTD's name and address on it, we suspect there was a mixup at the mailer-stuffing party: the letter inside was addressed to one M. -
Is there any dirtier holiday than this one? (Photo by Amy Wallenberg)
We're being cute -- this is not a Christmas song -- but hear us out.
First we heard the guys in Officer May were changing their name. Then we heard they were changing their sound. Neither of these seemed like particularly welcome possibilities, because Officer May -- who managed to be loud, poingnant, ass-dirty, tragic, and gorgeous in a Shellac-meets-In Utero kinda way -- kicked the shit out of us on a regular basis. -
photos by Tia
Tia reports:
There hasn't been a night to rival the Great Scott indie-art-rock-kids-spin-hip-hop drunken dancefest that was Dynasty (RIP) until the Certified Bananas kids rolled into Great Scott Thursday night to DJ for an evening rich with hand-clapping, booty-shaking, and mannequin-fondling fun!
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Not only do HARRY AND THE POTTERS have a lot more grist for the mill now that the fourth film is out, they also apparently have some competition in the realm of bands inspired by the ubiquitous child wizard. Just check out their new holiday album, which includes their smash hits "Christmas at Hogwarts" and, below, the winsome "Meet Me Under the Mistletoe." -
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The oeuvre of the bro/sis duo known as Ponies in the Surf used to be recognizable primarily by Alexander McGregor's gentle tendrils of simple Spanish-style guitar, his voice intertwined harmoniously with Camille's breathy songbird chirp. Extraneous instrumentation was usually limited to some sprightly finger tapping.
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Taking care of business in a flash.
It seemed to us that after all the fucking hype about Wonderful Rainbow that Lightning Bolt's new Hypermagic Mountain -- which is, like, a totally better record and the one everyone should be screaming "breakout masterpiece" about -- is being strangely kinda slept on. -
Matty Trump is a standout producer who has a great track out with the amazing 18-year-old Dorchester MC who goes by the name of LT (who, by the way, is literally the best rapper in Boston right now: everyone who hears him ends up with jaws around their ankles going, "He sounds like a young Jay-Z."). We met Matty in the studio with LT a few months ago; today he checked in to remember the Graveside kids: "Ya, J [Jason Bachiler] was a intern from the studio I worked at, he was a great kid.
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Graveside, the Wakefield-based rap group gunned down Tuesday in a Dorchester recordings studio, was not well-known to most Boston rap fans -- we'd never heard of them, either -- but they'd already caught the ear of tastemakers including Hot/WILD 97.7 DJ Mr. Peter Parker and the influential web site BostonHipHopOnline (BHHO).
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Details still emerging from the quadruple homicide at a Dorchester recording studio that claimed at least three members of the Wakefield, MA-based rap group Graveside.
BostonHipHopOnline has posted a song from the group called "Moneybags" -- apparently a tribute to Boston's 19-year-old mixtape mogul DJ Moneybags -- on its pop-up flash-radio player. -
It's raining men.
1. We knew as soon as the emails got to our inbox that at least a couple bloggers would beat us to posting these two songs, but we made the principled stand to actually listen to them before we passed them along. Go figure: they're both really good. The Bloc Party song was utterly forgettable the first time around, but as DFA79 fans have already figured out, everything sounds better with a really thick bass sound and DFA-ripoff proto-house drums.
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