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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

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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

Having no label telling them when and how to put out records and no money to spend on coke and laser light shows, Drag the River is happily stuck in a rut of recording cheap and fast and touring cheap and fast.

Dig Boston | Jed Gottlieb | 03-28-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Drag the River

From Azure to Bluenew

When Taylor tells you that music has been her life's only passion, it's easy to believe.

Dig Boston | Chase Stauffer | 03-14-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Maria Taylor

Wallflower Star Powernew

While the worldwide rap underground feverishly jousts over the meaning of real, K-OS simply keeps it that way.

Dig Boston | Chris Faraone | 02-14-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: K-OS

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

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Scots That Make You Go Hmm ...new

Their wall of sound allows Camera Obscura to channel that decades-old black pop feel.

Dig Boston | Jed Gottlieb | 01-24-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

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They Can See It Now!new

The Everyday Visuals, from Boston via Cow Hampshire and everywhere else in between, will be -- by all accounts and all careful estimations -- absolutely fucking huge.

Dig Boston | Chase Stauffer | 01-24-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Everyday Visuals

Old Dude Still Cooler Than Younew

Is he over the hill, or at the top of the heap?

Dig Boston | Luke O'Neil | 01-17-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

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Piano Ladynew

Honesty gives Rabdau's music its uniquely bent elegance -- a pop-fond sound that surges like a mood and withers like a memory.

Dig Boston | Michael Brodeur | 01-10-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Sarah Rabdau

Bus a Rhymenew

Until the listening party for Sean Price's new album, the best times I'd ever had on a bus were an eighth grade backseat blowjob and convincing an Orthodox Jew to sniff Special K.

Dig Boston | Chris Faraone | 01-03-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Sean Price

Into the Sonnew

Lennon knows all of the preconceptions people have about him -- who knows, though, maybe he's just a prick.

Dig Boston | Luke O'Neil | 12-13-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Sean Lennon

Pretty Sour, but Still Sweetnew

Evan Dando is not (quite) a pompous dick -- certainly not compared to classic rock dicks like Axl Rose -- but it does seem like he just doesn't give a fuck.

Dig Boston | Jed Gottlieb | 12-13-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Lemonheads