AltWeeklies Wire
Throwback Rockers Get All Scott McClellan on Our Assnew
According to Elliott Chaffee of Hats and Glasses, the band "just plays rock & roll."
Dig Boston |
Chase Stauffer |
04-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hats and Glasses
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
Turning Tricksnew
The new Pimpstar wheels flash LEDs that create a full-color, spinning image.
Dig Boston |
Dave Barker |
04-19-2006 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Real. Addictive.new
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers, is guaranteed to keep some geeks up past their bedtime.
Dig Boston |
Seth McM. Donlin |
04-19-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Choosing the Fuck-Me Pumpsnew
Kinky Boots is another film in a long line of modest-budget comedic efforts about people in small Anglo towns embarrassing themselves for the greater good.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
04-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Julian Jarrold, Kinky Boots
Overdosing on Mediocritynew
Woolley makes the very wise decision to focus on the handful of months that led up to Jones’s demise, eschewing the rise-and-fall formula that would have made for a much tackier product.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
04-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Stephen Woolley, Stoned
Voodoo Reduxnew
The Gris Gris have balanced their fondness for elder weirdos with a whole palette of sounds all their own.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Gris Gris
Non-Sequiterrific!new
The fun of Paper Thin Stages is, thankfully, less evening at the Improv and more screaming down a waterslide -- lots of scripted non sequiturs, flailing melodic movements and catching one's breath.
Dig Boston |
Devin King |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paper Thin Stages
Ultra-Pragmatic MCnew
Ghost has towered over hip-hop and emerged as an enigmatic presence on par with no other MC.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ghostface
Giant Leap Forward for RPG Fansnew
Run, don't walk, to your favorite gaming store for a copy of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Dig Boston |
Adam Diamond |
04-12-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Long on Title, Short on Qualitynew
Unfortunately, Miller has blindly stumbled upon a weird, interesting film somewhere in the middle of his storm of wet crud, but he has neither the wit nor the courage to let it out.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
Craziness as a Careernew
The Devil and Daniel Johnston closely follows the life of loony musician Daniel Johnston -- all the way through the acid trips, the nuthouses and the plane crashes.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
The Day He Died in Worcesternew
Eugene Mirman says that alternative rock and alternative comedy are usually a great combination.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
04-06-2006 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Blowing Up Like Chernobylnew
After five years of relative obscurity, the unstoppable, eight-piece gypsy-punk ensemble Gogol Bordello has landed spots on Jimmy Kimmel and piled up accolades on a recent tour through the UK.
Dig Boston |
Joe Keohane |
04-06-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gogol Bordello
