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RIP ODERUS URUNGUS: SADLY NOT A SICK HOAX
Photo by Vince Edwards of Metal Blade Records Waking up to the news today that Oderus Urungus aka Dave Brockie of GWAR was dead, the first thought that went through my head was this was some sort of...
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WOLVES OF THE ROAD: CHILDREN OF BODOM
To the casual U.S. metal fan, Finland’s Children of Bodom might not be a household name. But out on the road, headbangers view the band, which just celebrated its 20th year in existence, as icons and...
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CALL AND RESPONSE: WITH BOSTON CALLING, THE CITY BEGINS TREATING ITS DENIZENS...
Photo By: Samuel Quinn When Boston Calling started last year, the city was in its final year of Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s reign and the whole thing seemed like a crapshoot. But Menino’s gamble to host a...
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REVIEW: VANS WARPED TOUR AT XFINITY CENTER
For 20 years, Kevin Lyman and his crew at Vans have been giving the masses the best reason each summer to blow off work for a day and hit the tarmac for a long day of punk, ska, metal, hardcore, rap,...
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TALK SHIT GET SHOT: AN INTERVIEW W/ ICE T
Ice T’s new video for the song “Talk Shit Get Shot” has landed the rapper/actor/metal frontman back in the crosshairs of some in the media. It’s a place the Crenshaw-bred entertainer has found himself...
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REVIEW: ROCKSTAR MAYHEM FESTIVAL AT XFINITY CENTER
The annual Rockstar Mayhem Festival is normally a good chance to catch a few up-and-coming metal or hardcore bands before seeing some big-name arena metal headliners. This year’s edition, however, was...
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BECAUSE GOOD THINGS CAN ALWAYS GET BETTER
Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian Another successful edition of Boston Calling is in the books and there have been plenty of words published on it already, much of it positive, including what you’ve read here...
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TWICE THOU THEN & NOW: THE BOSTON RAP ICON RETURNS YET AGAIN
Twenty years ago, when artists had to hustle and sling records and before music was free, controversy was a golden ticket—especially in hip-hop. Like NWA and Ice-T before them, Boston legends The...
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INTERVIEW: VULVATRON, GWAR’S MURDEROUS SEX GODDESS
When GWAR frontman Oderus Urungus died of a heroin overdose earlier this year, the Richmond, Virginia, crew wasted little time proclaiming that they’d press on in his honor. Just how they’d do that was...
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MY TIME WITH TOM: REFLECTIONS ON 14 YEARS COVERING MAYOR TOM MENINO
IMAGE: DAVE WEDGE One of my first assignments when I started as a general assignment reporter at the Boston Herald in 1999 was covering Thanksgiving at the Pine Street Inn. I was a young reporter and...
View ArticleTWICE THOU THEN & NOW: THE BOSTON RAP ICON RETURNS YET AGAIN
While a lot of MCs from the '90s and early 2000s try in vain to chase trends set by rappers half their age, Twice Thou avoids this pitfall. He's mature, and instead reflects on hard lessons learned...
View ArticleMY TIME WITH TOM: REFLECTIONS ON 14 YEARS COVERING MAYOR TOM MENINO
I covered his administration. I would often stalk him by his black SUV in the horseshoe driveway in back of City Hall to press him on the news of the day. Some days, he’d be furious with me about...
View ArticleAT ACARO’S FINAL SHOW, EMOTIONS WERE AS INTENSE AS THE MUSIC
In life, it's really hard to walk away from something you're passionate about. And perhaps nowhere is it tougher than in the music biz.
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM THE NEW BOOK “BOSTON STRONG”
This legal Ping-Pong game will continue to go back and forth through his trial. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar sits in his cell, living off meals of chicken and rice and allowed to make only one phone call, write...
View ArticleREVIEW: BEHEMOTH + CANNIBAL CORPSE @ HOUSE OF BLUES
The undisputed dark lords occupying the throne and horrorcore humorists double down for death metal.
View ArticleAT ACARO’S FINAL SHOW, EMOTIONS WERE AS INTENSE AS THE MUSIC
In life, it's really hard to walk away from something you're passionate about. And perhaps nowhere is it tougher than in the music biz.
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM THE NEW BOOK “BOSTON STRONG”
This legal Ping-Pong game will continue to go back and forth through his trial. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar sits in his cell, living off meals of chicken and rice and allowed to make only one phone call, write...
View ArticleREVIEW: BEHEMOTH + CANNIBAL CORPSE @ HOUSE OF BLUES
The undisputed dark lords occupying the throne and horrorcore humorists double down for death metal.
View ArticleAT ACARO’S FINAL SHOW, EMOTIONS WERE AS INTENSE AS THE MUSIC
In life, it's really hard to walk away from something you're passionate about. And perhaps nowhere is it tougher than in the music biz.
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM THE NEW BOOK “BOSTON STRONG”
This legal Ping-Pong game will continue to go back and forth through his trial. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar sits in his cell, living off meals of chicken and rice and allowed to make only one phone call, write...
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