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REVIEW: RED FANG, CANCER BATS, THE SHRINE @ MIDDLE EAST, TUESDAY 12.10.13...
Photos by Dalton Patton We missed Indian Handcrafts, because the Red Line to Slowtown don’t give a fuck when you gotta be there, buddy. We basically wasted the opening set of Tuesday night’s...
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FOTOBOM: COMEBACK KID
Photos by Imara Chew Tuesday, February 25 Comeback Kid came to the Middle East Downstairs. Fist-pumping, sweating and shoving ensued.
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INTERVIEW: THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN’S BEN WEINMAN
Since they rolled into the rock world in 1997, the Dillinger Escape Plan have been in the running for most reckless band in the world award. Their chaotic, well-calculated math metal style is well...
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OFF!: “WASTED YEARS”
GENRE | PUNKS NOT DEAD, JUST OLDER LABEL | VICE RECORDS Nearly five years ago OFF! formed with guitarist Dimitri Coats and the LA king himself, Keith Morris. It initially seemed like it could be a...
View ArticleFOTOBOM: RISE AGAINST AT HOUSE OF BLUES
Post-hardcore and political punk converged on the House of Blues stage in Boston last Monday night. No noses were bloodied.
View ArticleRUN FOR COVER: FUGAZI VS. RUBBLEBUCKET: “WAITING ROOM”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version.
View ArticleRUN FOR COVER: FUGAZI VS. RUBBLEBUCKET: “WAITING ROOM”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version.
View ArticleRUN FOR COVER: FUGAZI VS. RUBBLEBUCKET: “WAITING ROOM”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version.
View ArticleHONEST PINT: LEGENDARY BOSTON HARDCORE ROCKER TEAMS UP WITH BLUE HILLS...
“I wanted to make it 9 percent and bars were like, “9 percent beer? I don’t know dude…’”
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CONVERGE GOES TO HARVARD: HOMETOWN HEROES GET AN A+ IN HARDCORE
Photo by David Robinson Converge have been treating fans to a lot recently. Boston’s iconic hardcore act released their remastered You Fail Me Redux album in 2016. They dropped a professionally...
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WHEEL OF TUNES: CONVERGE
Photo by David Robinson If you want to improve on an unwavering incline, look to Converge for inspiration. The Boston metalcore act formed back in 1990 when it was just vocalist Jacob Bannon and...
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WHEEL OF TUNES: MUNICIPAL WASTE
Photo courtesy of Municipal Waste Municipal Waste is the metal band you should have gotten into during middle school. The Virginia band have been rocking their hybrid of hardcore punk and thrash...
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30 BEST LOCAL ALBUMS OF 2017
You’ve heard it a thousand times, but we’re here to tell you again: Boston’s music scene is stuffed to the brim with talent. Each year, we see more artists push themselves to create bold music and...
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WHEEL OF TUNES: TURNSTILE
Photo by Jimmy Fontaine Forget about all the cliches of hardcore punk when listening to Turnstile. The five-piece Baltimore act—frontman Brendan Yates, bassist and supporting vocalist Franz Lyons,...
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WHEEL OF TUNES: GOUGE AWAY
Photo courtesy of Gouge Away The newest album from Florida hardcore band Gouge Away will knock you on your feet from the very first song and keep you sitting there, shocked, until the closing number....
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VOICES CARRY: BOSTON OLD TYME HARDCORE RALLIES TO AID GANG GREEN’S CHRIS DOHERTY
When it comes to the genre’s agitated inception, the heaviest rally cries of 1980s hardcore still echo from under shards of busted bottles and stomped cigarette butts along frost-mangled sidewalks...
View ArticleRUN FOR COVER: FUGAZI VS. RUBBLEBUCKET: “WAITING ROOM”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version.
View ArticleHONEST PINT: LEGENDARY BOSTON HARDCORE ROCKER TEAMS UP WITH BLUE HILLS...
“I wanted to make it 9 percent and bars were like, “9 percent beer? I don’t know dude…’”
View ArticleCONVERGE GOES TO HARVARD: HOMETOWN HEROES GET AN A+ IN HARDCORE
Ahead of their Boston Calling performance, Converge talk about Boston hardcore and how their evolution came about.
View ArticleWHEEL OF TUNES: CONVERGE
Boston’s metalcore heroes talk ’80s sci-fi, bird migration, and breaking orbital bones for our interview series.
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