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TOGETHER BOSTON: THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL SHAPING OUR COMMUNITY

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted May 12, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

Put your phone in your pocket and meet your friends at the club. It's time to dance. Boston's best electronic festival is back.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2017, Alessandro Cortini, Allston, Avalon Emerson, Boston, brighton music hall, Cambridge, Dance, Dee Diggs, Dig, DigBoston, EDM, Electronic, house, Interview, Kerri Chandler, KNTRL, Leon Vynehall, Magda, middle east downstairs, Middlesex Lounge, Music, Notes From the Scene, Octo Octa, Pantha Du Prince, Phoenix Landing, Solar, Soul Clap, Soulelujah!, The Sinclair, Together Boston, Umfang

NONAME: THE LITTLE CHICAGO RAPPER WHO MADE A BIG NAME FOR HERSELF

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted March 2, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

From collaborating with Chance the Rapper and Mick Jenkins to selling out her own headlining tour, Noname is bound for stardom. It's her tender hip-hop poetry that's rocketing her there quickly.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2017, Andre 3000, Astronautalism Drake, Boston, Cambridge, Chance the Rapper, Chicago, Dig, DigBoston, hip hop, Interview, Jamila Woods, Mick Jenkins, middle east downstairs, Noname, rap, Ravyn Lenae, Reggie Eldridge, Saba, Saturday Night Live, Spike Lee, theMIND, Toni Morrison

COACH FEST 2: ESCAPE REALITY WITH HALFSOUR, BAT HOUSE, PEOPLE LIKE YOU, AND MORE

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted November 18, 2016 Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

Because sometimes you need a day full of music to feel okay.

Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2016, Bad Dreams, Bat House, Boston, Cambridge, Coach & Sons, daephne, Dig, DigBoston, FALL RISK, Halfsour, Holy Pinto, Just Friends, Kitner, Lilith, Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies, local music, middle east downstairs, Music, Music Festival, Notes From the Scene, NOX, People Like You, Perspective a lovely hand to hold, Posture & the Grizzly, Prince Daddy & the Hyena, Queen Moo, Save Ends, Sports, the Most

CALL THE FUZZ: A BREAKDOWN OF FUZZSTIVAL ACCORDING TO YOUR FAVORITE BANDS

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted August 18, 2016 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Everything you need to know about Boston’s best garage and psych rock festival according to the bands you love.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: Birthing Hips, Boston, Cambridge, CreaturoS, Dig, DigBoston, Doug Tuttle, Fuzzstival, Garage Rock, Ghost Box Orchestra, Illegally Blind, Jason Trefts, Kid Mountain, local music, middle east downstairs, Mini Dresses, Mr. Airplane Man, Psych-rock, Quilt, zip-tie handcuffs

VULNERABILITY IN TRANSITION: GIRLPOOL PREPS FOR ROUND TWO

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted July 8, 2016 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

The Los Angeles duo talk about their upcoming record, honest songwriting, and the search for a perfect pair of pants.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2016, Before the World Was Big, Boston, Cambridge, Dig, DigBoston, folk punk, Frankie Cosmos, French Vanilla, Girlpool, Horse Jumper of Love, indie folk, Indie Rock, Interview, Lady Pills, Liz Phair, Los Angeles, middle east downstairs, Music

SO THIS IS THE NEW YEAR: WHEN AND WHERE TO SEE LIVE MUSIC ON NEW YEAR’S EVE

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted December 30, 2015 Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

If there’s one thing we know, it’s how to ring in the new year in style. From punk rock to classical, the concert options for tonight are endless—and so is that stream of bubbly.

Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2016, Andrew WK, Boston, Britney Bitch, Dig, DigBoston, great scott, Hallelujah the Hills, middle east downstairs, new years eve, ONCE Somerville, paradise rock club, Ruby Rose Fox, Symphony Hall, The Boston Pops, The Timberfakes

RICK ROLLED: THE MODEST UPS AND MUSICAL DOWNS OF PILE

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted August 5, 2015 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

From self-taught fingerpicking to anxiety-ridden breaks, Pile frontman Rick Maguire talks highs and lows before his upcoming solo show.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2015, Acoustic, Boston, Boston Hassle, Dan Shea, Dig, DigBoston, Illegally Blind, Interview, Jason Trefts, middle east downstairs, Pile, rick maguire, rock, Sam Potrykus, You're Better Than This

ENTER BARBAZONS: OR, THE LAST TIME WE SPEAK OF THE FAGETTES

Written by MARTIN CABALLERO Posted April 23, 2015 Filed Under: MUSIC

The Fagettes has changed thier name to The Barbazons, and with any luck, the members won’t have to keep talking about it much longer.

Filed Under: MUSIC Tagged With: avec plasir, barbazons, Jake Gilbertson, Matt Garlick, Melanie Bernier, middle east downstairs, Peaches Goodrich, ryan major, The Fagettes

BADBAD AS IN GOOD

Written by MARTIN CABALLERO Posted December 1, 2014 Filed Under: MUSIC

Photo By Connor Olthuis

 

Since forming in 2010, Toronto-based jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD have released three albums, played international festival stages, helped score RZA’s kung fu flick The Man With the Iron Fists, and served as the weekend band-in-residence at Coachella.

 

And yet, even ...  read more

Filed Under: MUSIC Tagged With: Adrian Younge, Alexander Sowinski, BADBADNOTGOOD, Chester Hansen, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Ghostface Killah, Gucci Mane, III, Jazz, Marvin Gaye, Matthew Tavares, middle east downstairs, Odd Future, psychedelic, Serge Gainsbourg, Shoegaze, soul, Sour Soul, The Beatles, The Revelations, Toronto

HOT TICKET: ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE, AND NOW YOU CAN AFFORD IT

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted November 20, 2014 Filed Under: Performing Arts

There are a couple hundred performing arts organizations in the area, and while we’d like to comb through the fine print of each and spotlight the ways to make them all accessible, well, we’d need a bigger boat. We also know you don’t have the attention ...  read more

Filed Under: Performing Arts Tagged With: 35 Below Wrap Parties, A.R.T., Access The Arts, affordable arts, All Cramped Up, american repertory theater, Bad Habit Productions, Boston, Boston Symphony Orchestra, BSO, BSO 101: Are You Listening? Variations on Variations, BSO For Dummies, Burlesque, Camberville, Cambridge, Cheap Seats, Company One Theater, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Dinah DeVille, Dinah DeVille and The Bloodstains, drama, Eve Ensler, Facebook, huntington theatre company, John Kuntz, Lowell, Lyric Stage Company, Merrimack, middle east downstairs, Midway, Necessary Monsters, O.P.C., Olivia Thirlby, Punk Rockin’ + Pastie Poppin’, Shockheaded Peter, Slainte!, SOMERVILLE, SpeakEasy Stage, student deals, Student Rush, The Burren, The Hub Theater Co. of Boston, THE REAL THING, The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife, theater, theatre, Tom Stoppard, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, veteran discounts

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