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Inbox: “The Skippy White Story: Boston Soul 1961-1967” Set For October Release

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 30, 2022 Filed Under: MUSIC

“15-Track Compilation Features Rare and Unreleased Recordings From Boston’s Soul Scene”

Filed Under: MUSIC Tagged With: Boston, history, Music, record stores, records

Deadstock and Two Smoking Turntables: Good Taste Records In Boston’s North End

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted May 5, 2022 Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop

“It’s about reliving being in an old skate shop, being in an old record shop.”

Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop Tagged With: Lifestyle, Music, North End, records, shopping

STILL SPINNING: HUB VINYL ICON SKIPPY WHITE AND THE TUNES BOSTON HAS HUMMED SINCE THE ’60S

Written by BRIAN COLEMAN Posted December 26, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction

"Skippy’s been around since, what, 1961? Skippy is Boston history."

Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction Tagged With: arts, BINJ Arts, BINJ music, Boston, Boston music history, Brian Coleman, history, Jamaica Plain, LPs, Music, Noah Schaffer, oral history, record stores, records, Roxbury, Skippy White, throwback, throwbacks

CHEAP THRILLS: SMALL BIZ SATURDAY IS ANOTHER EXCUSE TO EXPLORE THIS HIDDEN VINYL MINE

Written by C. SHARDAE JOBSON Posted November 21, 2017 Filed Under: GTFO, LIFESTYLE, Shop

In racks, bins, and crates and on tall shelves, customers are greeted with the exciting near-certainty that they’ll find some gems to ogle over and bring back home for their own players since there's so much—affordable!—vinyl to choose from.

Filed Under: GTFO, LIFESTYLE, Shop Tagged With: dept of commerce, records, shopping, small biz saturday, small business saturday, used records, Vinyl

SWAT INC: THE COMMONWEALTH’S MOST INFAMOUS MILITARIZED POLICE FORCE CONTINUES TO FLOUT RECORDS LAW

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted November 5, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

After nearly two months, seven in-person visits, numerous phone calls and emails, and a run-in with the Wilmington police, we finally received some of the records we requested.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACLU, Andover, andrew quemere, bay state examiner, BINJ, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boxford, Cambridge, Carlisle, Concord, Dracut, FOIA, freedom of information, Gloucester, Haverhill, Law Enforcement Councils, lawsuit, Lowell, Massachusetts, Maya Shaffer, militarized police, Nahant, NEMLEC, New England. Lynn. Lynnfield, Newburyport, newton, North Shore, records, Rowley, Salem, Secretary of State, SOMERVILLE, Swampscott, SWAT, Tewksbury, Topsfield, Washington Post, Weston, Wilmington

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE 2015 DIGBOSTON STUDENT GUIDE

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted September 9, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Guides, Specials

Keep this bookmarked through the school year, and, in the words of the patron saint of getting wild, Andrew W.K.: “Party till you puke.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Guides, Specials Tagged With: all ages, boston freedom rally, boston public market, campus controversies, charles river conservancy, club passim, Comedy, comicazi, comicopia, concerts, Cuisine En Locale, Deep Thoughts, dining, dorm room, elk's lodge, green side up, house of blues, Improv Boston, In Your Ear, Johnny D’s, kush groove, machine, middle east upstairs, records, rock club closing, royale, shopping, skate park, somervelo, spikes junkyard dogs, store 54, student guide, sugar daddy's, T.T. The Bear's Place, The Paradise, thinking cup, Weirdo Records, yume wo katare

DROP ZONE: A CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY FANTANO

Written by MARTIN CABALLERO Posted April 28, 2015 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

"I try not to center too much on what a specific scene is doing, because it’s all about the Internet for me now."

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: anthony fantano, Boogie Boy Metal Mouth, hatebreed, Kendrick Lamar, lp, music nerd, record reviews, records, the needle drop, young fathers, youtube

BIT FEST REDUX: A 12-HOUR BEER-SOAKED POP-UP ARCADE AND CLASSIC VIDEO GAME PARTY COMETH

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted February 13, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Comics, Games

Like all proper sequels, this one is cranking things up a notch.

Filed Under: A+E, Comics, Games Tagged With: Aeronaut Brewing, arcade, Beer, boston 8-bit, Boston bit fest, chip tune, commodore 64, console, high energy vintage, mortal kombat, ms. pac man, multi-player, nintendo, Party, pop-up, records, SOMERVILLE, street fighter, teenage mutant ninja turtles, vintage, Vinyl

YOUR 2014 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 14, 2014 Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop

IMAGES BY SCOTT MURRY @HOTDOGTACO. RESEARCH AND CURATION BY DAN MCCARTHY, SCOTT MURRY, PAIGE KENNERY, KAREN CINPINSKI, AND KEVIN SMITH

 

You can hear it when you close your eyes.

 

In the last moments of consciousness before you drift off to sleep at night. And just as you wake up in the morning. ...  read more

Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop Tagged With: Bartending, Beer, Brewing, Christmas, climbing, clothes, Dig Boston, DigBoston, experiences, Film, float tanks, Food, gear, gift guides, glassware, holiday shopping, holidays, memberships, pop-up, record shops, records, skateboarding, skydiving, spa, surfing, trampoline

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