
"Skippy’s been around since, what, 1961? Skippy is Boston history."
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Written by BRIAN COLEMAN Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction
"Skippy’s been around since, what, 1961? Skippy is Boston history."
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
“A lot of the early punk scene in Boston was started in art galleries ... That was no coincidence—these galleries could see that a lot of cool stuff was going on.”
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction
"I honestly thought that the most challenging thing would be to create this narrative of a city that doesn’t exist anymore purely with raw materials that everyone considers trash. Ads are cutting room floor. It’s like when you make a pie and you have extra dough and you make snickerdoodles out of it."
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts
"For every ad promoting the positive, transformative power of beauty and fashion, many others reinforce gender stereotypes or objectify women’s bodies."
Written by MARTIN CABALLERO Filed Under: MUSIC
The man they call 'Charlie Video' screens new original short films and his signature classic tomorrow at the Brattle.
Written by GEORGE HASSETT Filed Under: FEATURES, MUSIC, Specials
I interviewed Kool Gee the day after he rocked Wally’s. At his request, we met at the place where the TDS Mob story begins—the stoop of the old Tower Records on the corner of Newbury Street and Mass Ave. From there, he took me back to 1989, when TDS ran the calendar with a year of rap perfection.
Written by TAK TOYOSHIMA Filed Under: FEATURES, MUSIC, Specials
"He was gone before his time ... People didn’t really get to experience his full potential like we did … He was right on the cusp of doing some even bigger stuff musically [that] could have been commercially successful.”
Written by PACEY FOSTER Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Specials
With the publication of Check the Technique Volume 2 on October 14, Coleman puts forth an impressive 544 pages and 25 chapters of new material, complete with more than 350 images for 80 interviews with rap legends ranging from Ice Cube and 3rd Bass, to Stetasonic and Mantronix, to MF Doom and Mos Def.
When I went about compiling my list of hopefuls for this next volume, Ed’s classic from 23 years ago was at the top of my list. And the more I analyzed it, as well as interviewed the people who helped make it happen, the more its classic status was confirmed to me.
Like so much history about communities of color, the narrative of Boston hip-hop has been largely buried, ignored, forgotten. Thankfully, there remain innumerable artists, writers, fans, and even academics who, in the storytelling tradition rap music is rooted in, have kept dope alive via marvelous multimedia tributes. This whole package is dedicated to them.