AltWeeklies Wire
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
Love, War and Self-Immolationnew
Stars frontman Torquil Campbell gets off on odd pairings, which helps explain Set Yourself On Fire.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
02-22-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Stars
Jay Dee, 1974 - 2006new
The good news is that the hip-hop community never forgets -- so twist one and spill some for J Dilla.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
02-15-2006 |
Music
Horror Hippiesnew
Animal Collective sounds like someone slipped a sheet of acid into the high school cafeteria's Kool-Aid right before music class.
Dig Boston |
J. Bennett |
02-15-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Animal Collective
Play That Funky Music, White Peoplenew
Since this is the age of cross-pollination, Teenage Prayers’ music is ever-so-lightly spiced with sounds from the British, Canadian and intergalactic invasions.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
02-08-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Teenage Prayers
Audience Contempt: Sounds Nicenew
After 20 years of making music -- both on his own and with his band, underground-favorites American Music Club -- Mark Eitzel is just as strange, self-deprecating and busy as ever.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
02-08-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mark Eitzel
They Grow Up So Fastnew
Little Brother did the unthinkable with last year's The Minstrel Show, maintaining their initial crop of fans while providing young hooligans with an alternative to fantasy thuggery and oversized Fruit of the Looms.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
02-01-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Little Brother
Seattle Hip-Hop's Dark Appealnew
Weaving intricate and unbound tales of paranoid illusions, Onry, JFK and resident bassist Rob Castro plow into unmapped status quo antagonist territory.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
02-01-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Grayskul
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
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
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
Mellow Dramanew
Calla’s fourth full-length reflects their recent turmoil and trauma -- or more accurately, how they rose out of it.
Dig Boston |
Michael Kanin |
01-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Calla, Collisions
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
Cows, Roses, Geese and Speechnew
Armed with microphones, patches and processors, M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, the two halves of the odd brain that is Matmos, have repeatedly demonstrated they can pull music from pretty much anything.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matmos
Not A Bad First Draftnew
Editors play instantly familiar hand-wringing, doomsday dance-rock with pants-off disco beats, throat-slashing ninja guitars and a bass archer firing off sexy groove darts like Gay Cupid in too much eyeliner.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Editors
