INTERVIEW: LIGHTS
LIGHTS (yes, that’s in all caps) has a message for male groupies that might step out of line backstage: She’ll drop you with a boot, if need be. “Male groupies are much different than female groupies,”...
View ArticleALL THAT REMAINS: A WAR YOU CANNOT WIN
GENRE | POWER METALCORE VERDICT | THRASHTASTIC GLORY LABEL | RAZOR AND TIE RELEASE | 11.6.12 All That Remains, like their Masshole brethren in Shadows Fall and Killswitch Engage, have been toying with...
View ArticleTHE PRODIGY: THE FAT OF THE LAND (EXPANDED EDITION)
GENRE | BIG BEAT REDUX VERDICT | DIESEL POWER LABEL | XL RECORDINGS RELEASE | 12.4.12 BUY ALBUM HERE Noisia, Zeds Dead and Glitch Mob definitely have enough on their plate these days, but how could...
View ArticleHOLY GRAIL: RIDE THE VOID
GENRE | VINTAGE POWER THRASH VERDICT | HORNS UP HIGH MF’ERS LABEL | PROSTHETIC RECORDS RELEASE | 1.22.13 HOLYGRAILOFFICIAL.COM Retro-thrash has been like a thing for quite a few years now. Bands like...
View ArticleSTRICTLY LOCAL: LIVVER
Anyone who’s ever been in a band or promoted a show in Boston can sympathize with Livver guitarist Robin Goodhue. He’s spent years toiling as an underground show promoter—a thankless gig that...
View ArticleMUSIC FEATURE: DEFTONES
Fuck omens. They’re serious about playing Boston. The last time Deftones were supposed to play Boston, the show was canceled at the last minute due to the wrath of Hurricane Sandy. The next night, they...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: COHEED AND CAMBRIA
Just a couple of years ago, Josh Eppard was broke, struggling with drug addiction, and wondering where his life was going after splitting with his longtime friends in Coheed and Cambria. But the...
View ArticleSTRICTLY LOCAL: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
Gettin’ the band back together. It was a decade ago that Jesse Leach, Adam Dutkiewicz and their compatriots in Killswitch Engage unleashed the landmark album, Alive or Just Breathing. Any Massachusetts...
View ArticleSLAINE: THE BOSTON PROJECT
GENRE | RAP/HIP-HOP VERDICT | AUTHENTICIOUS LABEL | SUBURBAN NOIZE RELEASE | 4.16.13 In The Town, one of the most memorable moments of Boston rapper/actor Slaine’s burgeoning celluloid career comes...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: SOUL CLAP
… and George fuckin’ Clinton! There have been a lot of electronic acts to break out of Boston in recent years—Passion Pit and Steve Porter come immediately to mind—but it would be hard to argue anyone...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: THE RETURN OF THE GETO BOYS (PART 2)
Born in Jamaica, Bushwick grew up in New York and later moved to Minnesota to attend Bible college. He was planning to do missionary work in India, but on his way overseas, he stopped in Houston to see...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: THE RETURN OF THE GETO BOYS
It was a landmark moment in gangsta rap history and cemented the rapper’s legacy as one of the most notorious figures in music, right up there with GG Allin, Sid Vicious, and Marilyn Manson. Now in...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: EMMURE
Photo credit: Robert Scheuerman Emmure frontman Frankie Palmeri remembers all too well playing to near-empty VFW halls and sticky-floored basements around New England as the Connecticut-based band...
View ArticleBORN OF OSIRIS: TOMORROW WE DIE ALIVE
GENRE | PROG DEATHTRONICA VERDICT | SWEET, SWEET DEATH LABEL | SUMERIAN RECORDS RELEASE | 8.20.13 The marriage of keyboards and metal has been a source of controversy since the ’70s, when U.F.O., Rush,...
View ArticleNEWS TO US: SMACK OF BRILLIANCE
Our exclusive interview with Boston-Bred Vine hero Max Jr. Max Isidor has the sweetest part-time college gig going: Vine superstar. Better known as “smack cam” pioneer Max Jr., Isidor is a Bay State...
View Article5 DRINK MINIMUM: DARKLY DRUNK IN DORCHESTER
Since I’m pretty lazy these days, I decide to explore my own neighborhood, Savin Hill in Dorchester. It’s basically a working class nook with lots of triple-deckers converted into condos, nice single...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: ESCORT
Photo credit: Jody Kivort Brooklyn disco crew Escort has that big room, Casablanca Records-era orchestral dance funk down pat. But don’t mistake them for a nostalgia or novelty act. The trio–made up of...
View ArticleNEWS TO US: COUPLE SEVERELY WOUNDED IN MARATHON BOMBINGS NOW ENGAGED
Another marathon tale of tragedy has taken a feel-good turn as a couple severely wounded in the April 15 bombings has gotten engaged for Christmas, the Dig has learned. Paul Norden, one of the Stoneham...
View ArticleBOSTON’S PARKING JERKS
Above: Romsey Street – Dot Parking in Boston always sucks, but never moreso than during snowstorms. Panic sets in and the parking wars begin. Sydney Street – Dot Today, before even a snowflake fell,...
View ArticleSXSW: DJ BRAZEN: NOT SURPRISED
Photo courtesy of DJ Brazen’s Facebook page DJ Brazen (aka Brockton native Geoff Maynard) is on tour with Freestylers and was having dinner a couple blocks away from the crash scene. “We heard fire...
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