AltWeeklies Wire
Dirty on Purposenew
Louis Logic packs more swing and swagger than a horse on Viagra.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
10-18-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Louis Logic
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
Legend-Come-Lately Finally Fellatednew
It only took Percee P 20 years and a googolplex hand-to-hand negotiations to land a deal.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
07-05-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Percee P
The Sweet Snarl of Successnew
Even the most imaginative hip-hop geek out there couldn't theoretically morph enough artists to paint Mike Skinner.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
06-21-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Streets
What Does Boston Sound Like?new
It sounds something like We're All Gonna Die.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
06-21-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: We're All Gonna Die
Sometimes Electric, Always Slipperynew
Eels habitually reinvent themselves, and yet still remain a rock band.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
06-14-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eels
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
Ejstes the Way It Isnew
Swedish rockers Dungen ride the giant, Nordic waves of success after their latest release, Ta Det Lugnt.
Dig Boston |
Michael Kanin |
06-07-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dungen
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
Cattle Decapitation Wants You to Dienew
Cattle Decapitation's latest full-length, Karma.Bloody.Karma, is another flesh-flaying shitstorm of high-speed hate, complete with jams entitled "Unintelligent Design," "One Thousand Times Decapitation" and "Total Gore."
Dig Boston |
J. Bennett |
05-31-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cattle Decapitation
O Buddha, Where Art Thou?new
On his new album, The True False Identity, Burnett uses his lyrical stockpile to tell a few absurdist tales, but his best verses are criticisms of religious and political zealots.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
05-31-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: T-Bone Burnett
King of the Nerdsnew
The underground duo of RJD2 and Blueprint exhibit Skee-Lo levels of dissatisfaction.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
05-24-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Soul Position
Paying Hell for Paying Tributenew
While critics tear down his album of Modest Mouse covers, fans seem generally pleased with Mark Kozelek's latest effort.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
05-24-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mark Kozelek
Discovering New Countrynew
Young, cute and sweet, Sarah Borges doesn't have a lot of grit to her, but her twang is more than adequate, and she easily makes up for her grit-deficiency with her great old-timey honky-tonk yarns.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
05-17-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sarah Borges
Exquisite Bummersnew
Murder By Death's new album, In Bocca al Lupo, features a breadth of songs whose themes touch on everything from murder, death, violence and criminal suffering.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
05-17-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: murder by death
