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BEDBUG: THE BOSTON BEDROOM POP ARTIST UNIFYING A COMMUNITY

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted February 2, 2018 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

Talk to anyone in Boston's indie music community and they will tell you how magical lo-fi artist Bedbug is—even if they're too modest to ever admit it.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2018, Allston, Bedbug, Boston, Dig, DigBoston, Dylan Citron, Fairweather Currents, I’ll Count to Heaven in Years Without Seasons, Indie Rock, Interview, Joy Void, Lo-Fi, local music, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Music, Notes From the Scene, Pink Navel, Puppy Problems, Samantha Stoakes

NATURE SHOTS: FINDING LIFE IN LO-FI AFTER DEATH

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted January 25, 2018 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

After back-to-back deaths, keeping faith helped Michi Tassey of People Like You make her lo-fi solo debut.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2018, Acoustic, ambient, Animal Flag, Anjimile, Boston, Dig, DigBoston, Experimental, Foreclosure, Grouper, Interview, Lo-Fi, local music, Michi Tassey, Music, Nature Shots, Notes From the Scene, NOVA ONE, People Like You, The Antlers, Unification Church

15 BEST LOCAL EPS OF 2017

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted December 27, 2017 Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene, Reviews

There was no shortage of musical talent in 2017, and bite-sized EPs from Rams, Littlefoot, Haasan Barclay, Lilith, and more prove so.

Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene, Reviews Tagged With: (T-T)b, Allston, Bong Wish, Boston, Cambridge, Crumb, daephne, DAME, Dazey and the Scouts, Dig, DigBoston, Folk, Grubby Pawz, Haasan Barclay, Haze, hip hop, Horse Girl, Indie Rock, Innocent, Jamaica Plain, Lenderson, Lilith, Littlefoot, Lo-Fi, local music, metal, Music, Notes From the Scene, Prog, Psych-rock, Rams, rap, rock, SOMERVILLE, The Solars

MINI DRESSES: WHY BOSTON’S SMARTEST TRIO WAITED FIVE YEARS TO RELEASE AN ALBUM

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted October 20, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

“We try to adhere to the spirit of minimalist making, but we don’t identify as dream pop now. We just happened to make music that was dreaming.”

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2017, Allston, Blau Blau, Bong Wish, Boston, Dig, DigBoston, Dream Pop, great scott, Indie Rock, Interview, Lina Tullgren, Lo-Fi, Mini Dresses, Music, Notes From the Scene, Record Release

TRACK REVIEW: ABADABAD – “10 FINGERS”

Written by NICHOLAS REGAN Posted February 22, 2017 Filed Under: MUSIC, Reviews

After five years, Abadabad return with a dazzling song we give 10 out of 10 fingers (thumbs, specifically) up.

Filed Under: MUSIC, Reviews Tagged With: 10 Fingers, 2017, Abadabad, Boston, Dig, DigBoston, Lo-Fi, local music, Music, Pop Rock, Reviews, rock, The Wild, Touch The Feel, track review

LINA TULLGREN: EARNEST OPTIMISM AND ACCIDENTAL MELANCHOLY IN NEW ENGLAND

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted February 1, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Jamaica Plain’s rising musician on the overlooked optimism of sad guitarwork and bailing Berklee before she even got here.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2017, Alden & Harlow, Berklee College Of Music, Boston, Cambridge, Dig, DigBoston, Elliott Smith, Folk, Horse Jumper of Love, Indie Rock, Interview, Jamaica Plain, Lina Tullgren, Lo-Fi, local music, Maine, middle east upstairs, Music, Ty Ueda, Way Out

OFF TO THE RACES: HORSE JUMPER OF LOVE ON DEBUT LP FANS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted March 15, 2016 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Boston's slow-rock trio talk about the creation of and anxiety behind their emotionally jarring debut LP.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2016, Boards of Canada, Boston, debut album, Dig, DigBoston, Disposable America, Horse Jumper of Love, Indie Rock, Interview, Jamaica Plain, Lo-Fi, Mount Eerie, Music, rock, Silver Jews, Slow Rock, The Microphones, Vundabar

TO PLAY LOUD AND DIE IN ALLSTON

Written by MARTIN CABALLERO Posted December 9, 2014 Filed Under: MUSIC

Photo By David Young

 

In a city that’s got plenty to choose from, the old cliché of Allston Rock City might be Boston’s truest: If you really think the band is gonna make it, that’s where you should be. And as big an eye-roll as that may incite, there’s something special about the idea ...  read more

Filed Under: MUSIC Tagged With: Allston, Allston Rock City, alternative, Ben Semeta, Black Sabbath, Brian Wilson, CreaturoS, Die Vol. 1, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Fagettes, Lo-Fi, middle east upstairs, Nirvana, Patriot Act, Play Loud, Punk, Ryan Nicholson, screaming females, Steve Instasi, Surf Rock

REVIEW: BURY US WITH ‘BURY ME AT MAKEOUT CREEK’

Written by PAIGE CHAPLIN Posted November 18, 2014 Filed Under: Reviews

There aren’t enough bands in the alternative scene fronted by badass bass-wielding babes. Fortunately, Mitski and her brand-spankin’-new record 'bury me at makeout creek' are here to correct that issue.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: album review, Angel Olsen, babes, badass, bass-wielding, bury me at makeout creek, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Fuzz, I Dont Smoke, Indie Rock, Last Words of a Shooting Star, Lo-Fi, mitski, Music, review

CUFFING SEASON: THE STONER PUNKS ARE HERE TO PLAY

Written by MARTIN CABALLERO Posted November 18, 2014 Filed Under: MUSIC

"it’s getting those fucking awesome repetitive sludgy riffs that you hear at the most fuzziest of tones that just make you want to get really fucking baked and fall into the riff forever, and then slam it, head-on collision, with the speed, intensity, and ferocity of the punk rock sound. When those come together, the coolest shit happens. Some galactic thing like when two planets or two suns collide. It’s like, fuck.”

Filed Under: MUSIC Tagged With: A MINOR REVOLUTION, DEAD CATS DEAT RATS, Dig Boston, DigBoston, garage, Heavy Love Child, Ian Grinfold, Lo-Fi, Matt Ford, Max Levy, Moon Tune, Museum of Sound, New Alliance Studios, New England Institute of Art, Psychotic Dance, Sundream, The Desert, THE DIGS, Torch, Ty Segall, weedpunkNtea, zip-tie handcuffs

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