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Bodega’s Oliver Mak: “Top 5 Reasons To Love the Boston Music Scene”
1_Viva Viva
2_Drug Rug
3_DJ Kon
4_Hearthrob
5_Our Heritage: Morphine, The Noise, The Pixies, Buffalo Tom, Lemonheads, This Is Boston Not L.A., Juliana Hatfield, The Modern Lovers, Monoman, The Rat, The Middle East, Newbury Comics, WMBR, all-ages hardcore shows at the Elks Lodge, the weird mid-’90s ska explosion, and all the past scenes that have brought danger and magic to this wonderful city
Edited by Will Spitz
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- Hard-wired fuzz
The Inclined's December '08 debut, The First Day of Many, continues to captivate my attention with big hooks, spacey synths, and manipulated guitar riffs and squalls, at times encapsulated in fuzz and exploding with unabashedly catchy gems.
- Starting over
They Won’t Stay Dead is nothing if not appropriately named.
- School daze
The shows that Tufts University’s Oxfam Café has hosted over the past year-plus are not your typical sweat-drenched college rock shows.
- Bittersweet sendoff
You're killing me Sweetthieves.
- Dream on
It is somehow fitting that the Guitar Hero series should follow the trajectory of the countless rock bands who achieve too much success too soon.
- The boy with no name
With a tidy five-song EP, More Time , Travis Kline is the newest entrant in Portland's burgeoning alt-country renaissance.
- Worldly travelers
Recently, Brother Cleve has become something of an international presence, thanks to an eclectic band he plays keyboards in called Dragonfly and to an increasingly successful career as a DJ. Dragonfly, "Blind (Brother Cleve's rock 'n dhol remix)" (mp3)
- Same as he ever was
Thirty-four years after forming the legendary band Talking Heads with fellow Rhode Island School of Design students Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, David Byrne returns to the area to perform “The Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno.”
- Vetiver + Phosphorescent
Houck looked nothing like Bonnie Prince Billy or the more emotionally tortured freak-folkies he’s usually lumped with.
- World War III
Devastating news: Boy George has been denied entry to the United States!
- Up and autumn!
Behold! The prime of the approaching fall local rock crop.
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