AltWeeklies Wire
Big in Japannew
The Scissor Sisters are taking their ball and going overseas.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
12-06-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Scissor Sisters
A Whooping Good Timenew
You'd need three billion bowls of other rock bands to match the head-pounding power found in just one bowl of Coughs.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
07-05-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Coughs
A Swell of New Versenew
Each sample in this book has enough immediate appeal to entice and soothe skittish newbs and enough canonical footing to make it OK for seasoned masochistic enthusiasts.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
06-14-2006 |
Poetry
Tags: Various, Wave Books
Minimalism with Animal Staminanew
Charlemagne Palestine isn't the father of minimalism, but he's certainly one of its wackier uncles.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
06-14-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Charlemagne Palestine
Gay Bash!new
The gay Dig-sters go at it again -- in a special Pride Week edition.
Dig Boston |
Lissa Harris and Michael Brodeur |
06-07-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Chips Ahoy!new
The International Chiptune Resistance is a traveling pack of console crackers that make their jams exclusively with hacked Game Boys and Nintendos.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
05-31-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gay Bash!new
Two Dig editors battle out the important issues, gay style.
Dig Boston |
Lissa Harris and Michael Brodeur |
05-17-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
(And Malcolm in the Middle)new
Matters and Dunaway distinguish themselves from the bulk of the electronic acts that have purists so squeamish -- they are, through and through, a live band.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
05-10-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matters and Dunaway
Kanye the Hard Waynew
When Alain Macklovitch was 13, he was dropping bar mitzvah cash on a pair of turntables and a mixer -- two years later, as DJ A-Trak, he was owning multiple world DJ championships.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
04-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A-Trak
The Unfettered Music Festivalnew
The line-up for this year's Terrastock promises festival-goers the chance to get their (musical) freak on.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
04-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Terrastock
Solo Soul; Man Oh Mannew
Jamie Lidell's new album, Multiply, is 10 tracks of sweet, pining, shaking, Motown-inspired white-boy soul.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
04-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jamie Lidell
David Berman's Second Comingnew
In 1989, David Berman started the Silver Jews in NYC, when he and a couple of dudes from college decided they wanted to have a "silver" band -- so begins the story of the silver semites.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
03-15-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Silver Jews
Converting the Worldnew
Metric took the usual indie path and released their own records, but now they get to deal with a trickier situation -- getting too big.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
03-01-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Metric
Blood in the Waternew
The Sharking's debut is a nifty little 18-minute, six-song pop attack that will sneak right up on you, take a big bite and will not let go.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Sharking
They Ain't Saying Shitnew
By not really paying attention to much else outside of what they do, the Walkmen have kept themselves worth paying attention to -- and for a band that dwells in the perpetual promotional din of NYC, that’s saying a lot.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Walkmen
