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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.05 – 4/8/21

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BARRENCE IS BACK: WHY THE BLUES ROCK ICON WANTS TO MAKE YOUR DAY

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted March 22, 2018 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

Boston’s 1980s blues rock star Barrence Whitfield is ready for the spotlight once more — and he knows you will smile in his glow.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: '80s, 2018, Barrence Whitfield, Barrence Whitfield & the Savages, Blues Rock, Boston, Cambridge, Dig, DigBoston, Interview, middle east upstairs, Mr. Airplane Man, Music, Nuggets, rock, soul

MR. AIRPLANE MAN: BACK IN THE PILOT SEAT

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted March 19, 2018 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

Boston’s beloved ’90s blues rock duo played with the White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. So what took them so long to end their hiatus and record a new LP?

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: '90s, 2018, Allston, Blues Rock, Boston, Cambridge, Dig, DigBoston, Duo, Indie Rock, Interview, Jacaranda Blue, local music, Mark Sandman, middle east upstairs, Morphine, Mr. Airplane Man, Music, Notes From the Scene, Reigning Sound, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

WHEEL OF TUNES: WEAVES

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted October 12, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

The Toronto art rock group talks baby pandas, backfired edibles, and what makes them cry.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2017, Art Rock, Boston, Dig, DigBoston, Grease, Indie Rock, Interview, Lost Dog, middle east upstairs, Music, Now and Then, Tancred, Weaves, Wheel of Tunes

BABY BOOMING: HOW INDIE POPPER BABY! FOUND A NEW HOME IN BOSTON

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted August 25, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

After leaving Florida, Kaley Honeycutt found a new home for her surf pop band Baby! right here in Boston.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2017, baby, Birthing Hips, Boston, Cambridge, Dig, DigBoston, F.L., Florida, Indie Rock, Interview, local music, middle east upstairs, Music, Notes From the Scene, NOX, Pavement, Peaer, pop, Strange Mangers, Sunny, Surf Rock, Yellow K Records

WHEEL OF TUNES: GREAT GRANDPA

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted August 4, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Alt rockers Great Grandpa talk 3 AM burger trips, Scrubs, and why they were never grounded growing up.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2017, alt-rock, Boston, Cambridge, Chris Farren, Dig, DigBoston, Great Grandpa, Interview, Leaner, middle east upstairs, Music, Plastic Cough, Rozwell Kid, Scrubs, Wheel of Tunes

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: ALLSTON’S EXPERIMENTAL EMO ACT THINKS BEYOND THE SELF

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted July 27, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

The empathy of Allston five-piece People Like You stretches from their new record, Verse, all the way to their lives outside music.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2017, Allston, Boston, Cambridge, Cowboy Boy, Dig, DigBoston, Emo, Indie Rock, Interview, local music, middle east upstairs, Music, Paige Chaplin, People Like You, Second Becky, Verse

PAINT IT BLACK: WHY XASTHUR TRANSITIONED FROM BLACK METAL TO FOLK

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted May 20, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

"The music I’m doing today is dismissed as something simple or fun, and it’s neither. It’s more negative than I wish for it to be, really, but that’s life usually."

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2017, black metal, Boston, Cambridge, Dig, DigBoston, Folk, Interview, Johanna Warren, Marissa Nadler, middle east upstairs, Music, Nocturnal Poisoning, Sunn O))), Xasthur

MINT GREEN: HOW A RISING POP PUNK ACT KEEPS THE SCENE FRESH

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted April 17, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

How the dissolution of a high school band led to one of the most promising pop punk acts in Boston.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: (T-T)b, 2017, Boston, Cambridge, Canker Blossom, Dig, DigBoston, Growth, Interview, local music, middle east upstairs, Mint Green, Music, Pop Punk, Shiver

RAGE AGAINST THE MAGAZINE: COUNTERCULTURE IS ALIVE AND WELL

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted February 24, 2017 Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

A friendly reminder that Boston is a city that runs on cyclical demolition and rebirth. Counterculture never left.

Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2017, Allston, Bad History Month, Boston, Boston Magazine, Cambridge, Champagne Charm, club passim, Coach Fest, Dig, DigBoston, DIY, Dust From 1000 Years, Funeral Advantage, great scott, House Shows, Lilypad, Lina Tullgren, local music, Michael Christmas, middle east upstairs, Midway Cafe, Music, Notes From the Scene, Pile, Speedy Ortiz, Strange Mangers, Teenender, Zumix

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

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