“I feel like the community of roots people wants you to succeed. They know if you’re good and you put the work into it. They’ll come out and see you and they’ll buy your CD.”
SPECIAL FEATURE: ME(TAL) TOO
For women in the metal scene, camaraderie and skill help rock and roll over the sexist trolls
WHEEL OF TUNES: ILLUMINATI HOTTIES
The affable indie rock act talks vegan cheese, Reddit posts, and burritos from El Pelon.
SOUL SURVIVORS: A DEEP LOOK AT THE HUB’S OBSCURE DISCO SCENE
“It took a lot of patience. It wasn’t an easy three years to get the records I wanted before I could start making the actual mix.”
ENSEMBLE MIK NAWOOJ: BOOM BAP SYMPHONY EPIPHANY
“It’s not quite hip-hop, as we don’t follow conventional 16-bar structures nor do we have 808 or drum machines, but also not classical—definitely not classical.”
BAT HOUSE: HOW THE PSYCH ROCK BAND FINALLY FOUND THEIR IDENTITY
Boston’s weirdest psych rock band took a while to find their sound, but now that it’s here we can’t get it out of our heads.
DIG THIS: 4TH OF JULY, EURO 2016, AND SPIDERS
Your to-do list for the week
‘POP’ GOES THE GENRE
A conversation with Berklee English prof Mark Polanzak about his new sorta memoir As journalists at DigBoston, it’s hard for us to worship genre-benders who take liberties in weaving fiction into nonfiction and memoir. But while phonies like Ben Mezrich patch together micro lies with fantasy and package slop as real talk, Berklee College […]
EXCERPT: ‘POP!’ BY MARK POLANZAK
But I wrote this funny story about my dad’s death. It goes on for many more pages, being funny and super distanced from the grief.
GAZ COOMBES RETURNS: THE SUPERGRASS FRONTMAN IS A CHANGED MAN
Ladies and gentlemen, rejoice. The former Supergrass frontman returns with maybe the best record of his career.
