“Skippy’s been around since, what, 1961? Skippy is Boston history.”
READER INPUT: WHAT’S WRONG WITH BOSTON?
We were happy to receive several dozen responses—many of which echoed each other, one of which was a poem, and some of which hit on subjects that we don’t think or write about enough around here.
TOP 10 MOST VIEWED DIG ARTICLES OF 2019
From investigative reports to music and arts writing, we killed it yet again. Long live alt-weeklies!
BAD RABBITS AT 10: THE BELOVED BAND AND BOSTON MUSIC FANS REFLECT ON THE STICK UP KIDS EP
“We wanted to make sure if you were playing a show, before or after us, you were terrified because we made it impossible for you to top what the crowd just saw.”
STICK TO THE PLAN: HALLELUJAH THE HILLS WENT THROUGH HELL BUT RETURNED FOR SEVENTH LP
“If a title is strong, unusual or funny, it’s because those are the type of things that will drive me to write a song for that title.”
FOLLOWING FOOD NETWORK FAME, OAK LONETREE DROPS BEST EFFORT YET WITH ASSIST FROM INSIGHT
“I know this is really random, but you’re like a Boston Greek dad rapper and construction worker and I can totally get you on a show.”
TWIN PEAKS: CHICAGO GARAGE ROCKERS ON LESSONS LEARNED FROM OLD DAYS GIGGING IN DIRTY DIY JOINTS
“I feel very humbled by it. It’s crazy … starting when we did and now I’m 25 doing this.”
TENNIS ELBOW: SINNET GETS PERSONAL ON LATEST SYNTH-POP SWING-ALONG
“Did you notice that instead of bricks there are little tennis courts in the background? How clever.”
FOTOBOM: THE NATIONAL @ AGGANIS ARENA
I said it when I last caught up with The National, headlining two nights at a New York City festival of their own curation last year, and it bears repeating now: it’s still a little weird for this band, of all bands, to have made the leap to arenas. But Thursday’s sold-out show at […]
FOTOBOM: WILCO @ WANG THEATRE
The joke inherent in Wilco’s new record Ode to Joy – the band’s eleventh full length – is that it’s actually kind of a downer. The Chicagoan collective who perpetually straddle the lines of indie, art-rock and alt-country have never been the cheeriest band to begin with – the centerpiece of what’s arguably their sunniest […]
