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"My songs mostly come out of experience or someone’s experience that’s close to me. A lot of my songs are stories or they bear some weight that comes from my life. I’m not that creative of a person, so I have to take it from real life, and I know a lot of weird characters from living all over the world and being around a bunch of them."
"There will be some way for people to hear what I’m doing, maybe I’ll put it on the internet or something, but I just want to make art and not necessarily a bunch of products."
"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.”
"I feel very humbled by it. It’s crazy … starting when we did and now I’m 25 doing this."
Not only do they have a successful operation, but they’re releasing a new book, The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. I asked them about everything.
"The belief was always that this told a story about social change and people speaking up for what is right. If it was just about Boston, it would have a limited appeal, so really from the beginning we looked at how ’BCN in fact had a much broader influence, and then we tried to tell that story."
The guitar jammer talks doing impersonations, supporting the ACLU, and the brutality of New England winters.
The noise rock icons talk battle scars, Craigslist scams, and their favorite old-timey Southern phrases
The New Jersey punks talk fantasy worlds, MRIs, and their favorite painting by Agnes Martin.
From alternative hip-hop to chamber folk, here's a cheat sheet to Boston's best music of the year so far.
