― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
And Boston's got what, the Pixies? Mission of Burma (who really underwhelmed me; I rarely listen to the album of theirs I have [Vs.])? Dinosaur Jr. were from elsewhere in Massachusetts, and they were pretty great for a while, if they count.
― Ian Johnson, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
MISSION OF BURMA:
Echo Lounge, Atlanta - Thursday, February 20, 2003tickets - www.echostatic.com
Nightclub 9:30, Washington, DC - Friday, February 21, 2003tickets - www.930.com
Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia - Saturday, February 22, 2003tickets - www.ticketmaster.com
can you make any of those shows???
― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Off the top of my head, Boston have given us: Boston, the Pixies, Mission of Burma, Throwing Muses, the Lyres, DMZ, the Modern Lovers, the FU's, GangGreen, Slapshot, the Titanics, the Upper Crust, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Clamdiggers, Til Tuesday/Aimee Mann, Leters to Cleo, the Cars and, of course, Aerosmith. I'm sure there are a few I'm forgettin'. Oddly enough, the Standelles -- who sang the garage nugget, "Dirty Water" (featuring the line "Boston You're My Home") were from Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, New York has given us: Kiss, the New York Dolls, the Velvet Underground, Blondie, the Ramones, Television, the Dictators, the Voidoids, Kraut, the Beastie Boys, the Plasmatics, the Cro-Mags, Murphy's Law, the Stimulators, Agnostic Front, Anthrax, the Jim Carroll Band, Patti Smith, D-Generation, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Cop Shoot Cop, Helmet, Surgery, Swans, Sonic Youth, DNA, Mars, James Chance & the Contortions, Lydia Lunch, Suicide, A.R.E.Weapons, the Strokes, the Rapture, Interpol, Firewater, Skeleton Key, Barkmarket, the Lounge Lizards, The Voluptious Horror of Karen Black, Missing Foundation, King Missile, the Mooneye Suzuki,........
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 04:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
But it's nice to see that Alex in you-know-where totally glossed over any Boston band that was formed after 1993ish.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 04:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
see, today is backwards day
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 05:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 05:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 05:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Cars are just Television with synthgoop instead of guitargoop.
(Not that this is a bad thing, by any stretch of the imagination.)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 06:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 06:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 06:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jewish Aboriginy Strobe Light (Jewish Aboriginy Strobe Light), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 07:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave Fischer, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 07:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
Maybe a new thread - "Best music producing city" ?!?
― CretanBull (CretanBull), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 10:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Seven Is Not Four, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 13:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
or on second thought...
― Jesse Fox, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
and yeah, NYC has been a cultural mecca for musicians and artists and everyone while boston is just where people go to college. not really a fair fight, I say. I like more boston bands than NYC bands though. and I mean bands currently playing/touring, forget the cities' heritage...
― tinobeat (tinobeat), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Well, fuck, man. I don't live in Boston -- shoot me (and probably haven't been there since `93, either....actually it was `95). I'm sure there are great bands comin' outta there. Hang me for not knowin'em, why don'tcha!
For what it's worth, despite being Massholes, I love a lot of Boston bands. I'm not trying to turn this into a grudge match (`cos we'd win....bahahahahahaha). Seriously, who cares where a band is from...so long as they're good?
On a differente note -- not that I'd know about it -- but does Boston have a Hip Hop scene? And if so, have any names sprung from it?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
True.
"Some great bands but no scene."
Why is a scene necessarily so important? I mean, yes, a thriving community of like-minded artists can usually only offer great things, but there have been instances of bands developing in a completely isolated, insular environments and producing music of staggering originality, no? Why is "the scene" so lionized?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch?
― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
ALEX in NYC got one WRONG!!!
Does this happen often?
I am still new to ILM.
And by the way, Alex, I hope your wife is feeling better :(
― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
check out:http://www.brickrecords.com/they're pretty much at the forefront of Boston hip hop.
so yeah, boston's hip hop scene is a bit brighter than the rock scene these days (or at least making more waves outside of boston). too many fuckin bands that would describe themselves as "rawk" so as to lighten the load of actually having ideas. the more tattoos the better. blech..
but here's some really great boston bands that may or may not be known outside of town (I have no way of knowing): The Beatings, Charlene, Lockgroove, Certainly Sir, Soltero, Helms, 27, Suntan, Neptune, Karate, The Ivory Coast, Isis, The Common Cold, The Burning Paris, California Stadium...
that's all I can think of off the top of my head, but there's more.
sure NYC would win a grudge match. what wouldn't NYC win in? its so much bigger and has so much more stuff. I should hope that more great bands would come from NYC than boston. with so many more resources and people, it would be a crying shame if the quality of NY's musical output were to be dwarfed by a much much smaller town.
but like someone said, who cares where a band's from, as long as they're good, right?
― tinobeat (tinobeat), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Orca, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Chicago.
― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yeah, but that doesn't mean they're all of the same caliber. I mean, look back at the late 70's CBGB's scene and you have great bands like the Ramones and Blondie....but you also had crap like The Shirts and the Tuff Darts. In Seattle, sure you had Soundgarden, Mudhoney & Nirvana, but you also had Grunttruck and Skin Yard. In prime British Punk London, you had the Pistols, the Damned and the Clash, but you also had fuckin' Subway Sect and Chelsea. Not everyone is a winner.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dan (dan), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
-- hstencil (hstenci...), February 11th, 2003.
Surely you jest! Deep dish? C'mon. Get with it man. If you haven't had a regular slice from Famous Ray's then you haven't lived.
― brendan, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
I believe this would be a true statement if you subscribe to the theory that the bigger the hair the greater the band.
― brendan, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
For those scoring at home, I actually like both Chicago and NY-style pizza.
― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm sorry that happened to you, but I've lived here most of my life and I've NEVER been mugged, assaulted, or anything like that.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 February 2003 00:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 February 2003 00:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes, Alex, other cities do have druggies, pimps, whores, thieves, maggots and other bits and pieces of flotsom and jetsom. However, they are not the thundering heard they are in NYC nor are they considered part of the normal social landscape as they are in the big apple. What kind of person loses his shit just because they can get a corned beef sandwich made to order at three in the morning? I guess it is the same kind of person who can't see that it's the same place where there is a rape happening in broad daylight in front of a subway car full of deaf dumb and blind folks every fifteen minutes.
― nigel harris, Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
*mutters under breath*
do not feed the trolldo not feed the trolldo not feed the troll
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
From BostonThe Zulu's - overlooked and underrated by everyone who never saw them live.The Lyres - another phenomenal live band - Cantones, anyone?PesteVolcano SunsMission Of BurmaThe Freeze - Ok, they were from the Cape, but close enough dammit!
From NYRamones
Ok - NY wins
― Davlo (Davlo), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
-- Davlo (daveloe...), February 13th, 2003.
Right on, brother!
― Elvis Peacock, Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't know, Alex... looks like we got a toss up here.
― Public Enema Number 1 (Public Enema Number 1), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oh, Orca. I did not think I could get much more excited than the imagery of Mission of Burma in close proximity to Famous Ray's, but you had to then bring up KATZ DELICATESSEN!!!!
My goodness, and all the "Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army" imagery.
Excuse me for a few moments....
― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Thursday, 13 February 2003 19:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
... sounds like a sound-bite from Cheech and Chong's WEDDING ALBUM.
― Public Enema Number 1 (Public Enema Number 1), Friday, 14 February 2003 00:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― illuminati 4, Friday, 11 April 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Russ (Russ), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
both places are so so dead right now, unless you count the endless armies of hipster idiots. maybe its just me though, but there was a period in the early 90's when i was going back and forth between the two cities watching band after amazing band. DRESDEN DOLLS ON JIMMY KIMMEL TONIGHT!
me, i just wanna move to the mountains.
& what sort of fool compares anything to NYC. whats next, 2% milk verus pure uncut heroin? the amazon river versus a puddle of piss?
― kephm, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, the lack of good bands in Boston does give me confidence in my music!
Worchester seems to have a lot of Noize stuff going on.
Also, thanks for the Dresden Dolls tip kephm....
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.twintone.com/scrapbook/photos/richman/dix.jpeg
xpost: stence, is that a joke? no shit
― kephm, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link
(sonic youth were from CT(kim), etc, Rapture are from Cali, AND SO ON!)
― kephm, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 19 August 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Forced exposure should open a shop here, or at least merge with Twisted Village.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/show/index_20041112.shtml
The BraveryThe Bravery are New York's latest coolest band and they're making their TV debut on Later. Their band name & songs are born out of the post 9/11 fear ridden NYC.
Does this band have a reputation back in NYC or they just a bunch of lucky chancers with good management?
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Seemingly having come out of nowhere, they've pretty much knocked the City upside its unsuspecting head with their four week sold out standing room only residency at Arlene's Grocery
Which says everything, I suppose. I've never heard of them. I'm going to assume they're the kind of bland band that has the right haircuts, get's hyped, get's on Conan and has a record deal before anyone actually listens to the music. Then everyone will forget about them in a year. It happens all the time.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― danh (danh), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6487762?rnd=1097123339652&has-player=unknown
I heard a Bravery track today on BBC 6 Music sounded a bit generic dancey-punkfunk-rock circa 2002 - like an inferior version of Radio 4.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― danh (danh), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
was that paragraph in fact taken in its entirety from a leftover strokes bio?
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link
and there are 10 or 12 seats/barstools scattered about, so you've got to bring in AT LEAST A DOZEN PEOPLE before it truly becomes standing room only. do that four times in a row and you too can have a major label deal.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm looking at you Dropkick Murphys (and to a lesser extent, House of Pain).
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
fresh from selling out the Lion's Den twice....
last seen filling the Continental to the rafters...
How come I had no idea you moved to Boston?
New York's loss...I saw Terry Riley and Michael Harrison perform for prepared and just intonated pianos in the back of a piano store a few weeks ago. We need more minimalist keyboardists...
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Right?
PS, How many noteworthy Boston bands consist of actual Bostonians (or at least Mass. residents) vs. how many noteworthy New York band consist of actual New Yorkers (or at least NY residents)?
― nader (nader), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― starc, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and lady got a job here.
I live on the Fung Wah bus these days...
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f622/f62201ron0b.jpg
is so close to
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f956/f95625eef61.jpg
which, I think it's clear from the illustration, is the finest place for the rock and roll music.
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
The New York Synthpop Festival 01.14.05
Lo-Fi Entertainment Presents
01. Design/Build02. Eisdrive03. In-A-Sense04. Xero/G05. halovox06. Freezepop07. Brand New Idol08. The Mystic Underground09. Platform One
Friday, January 14th
Rare416 West 14 Street(between 9th Ave & Washington Street)212.675.2220http://www.rare-nyc.com
Also appearing: DJ Volitans and DJ Arimos
CD giveaways courtesy of A Different Drum!
Bands start performing at 8:00 p.m.Admission: $10 - 18 and over
http://www.lofientertainment.com/parties
For more information on the bands:
Design/Buildhttp://www.myspace.com/designbuild
Eisdrivehttp://zebox.com/eisdrive
In-A-Sensehttp://www.angelfire.com/music5/inasense/index.html
Xero/Ghttp://www.xero-g.net/index.htm
halovoxhttp://www.halovox.com
Freezepophttp://www.freezepop.com
Brand New Idolhttp://www.brandnewidol.com
The Mystic Undergroundhttp://www.themysticunderground.com
Platform Onehttp://www.platform-one.com
DJ Volitanshttp://www.owos.net
DJ Arimoshttp://www.arimos.com/
are any of these artists well known in NYC? or worth checking out?
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought there was a "This is Boston..."/Boston Hardcore thread but I'm not finding one...
Gang Green reunited last night:https://www.facebook.com/johnny.mullin/videos/10156776040605822/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 January 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link