Dig Boston | Matt Parish

Take a Lickin' & Keep on Tickin'new

Piles is the chrome-plated calculator watch of Boston math-rock bands -- no frills and totally geeky-looking, but super-utilitarian in a Leatherman sort of way.

Dig Boston | Matt Parish | 04-11-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Piles

Four Playnew

Battles' new album is like watching the finished product on a huge screen, with lasers and impossible explosions added in all over the place.

Dig Boston | Matt Parish | 04-04-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: battles

Telling it Like it Isn'tnew

Grizzly Bear is the Stanley Kubrick of indie-rock bands: all glacially paced, over-the-top beauty and pinpoint orchestration.

Dig Boston | Matt Parish | 01-31-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Grizzly Bear

Hard to Ignorenew

Lang discovers that not all rackets pay that well.

Dig Boston | Matt Parish | 11-29-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: David Lang

On Writing Songs for Clay Aikennew

This book is aimed primarily at those willing to hawk their wares as full-time songwriters -- not singers or bandleaders, but the kind of pencil-pushing music geeks who stay home all day working out songs on notepads and MIDI keyboards.

Dig Boston | Matt Parish | 06-07-2006 | Nonfiction

Tags: Jason Blume, This Business of Songwriting

An Exercise in Escapismnew

The band wrenches creaky waltzes and boneyard marches out of splintery wooden instruments and shout-along vocals.

Dig Boston | Matt Parish | 01-25-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Humanwine

Bonkers Chorus Will Fuck You Upnew

Boston's Cantana Singers will perform Stravinsky's "perfect piece," Les Noces, while people sit with their jaws dropped as the 44-member chorus battles with six percussionists and four grand pianos.

Dig Boston | Matt Parish | 01-19-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Cantana Singers, Stravinsky's Les Noces

Is Practice Making Them Less Weird? Weird.new

As always with Deerhoof, the question with every new album is: How will they pull this off live? The answer remains generally the same: They won’t bother.

Dig Boston | Matt Parish | 09-14-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Deerhoof