FALL PREVIEW: 15 ALBUMS TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS FALL
Here’s a list of 15 albums that you will be listening to on repeat this fall. Like, until you’re nearly sick of them. Hey, don’t say we didn’t warn you. 1. CHVRCHES, THE BONES OF WHAT YOU BELIEVE...
View ArticleLORDE: PURE HEROINE
GENRE: ART POP VERDICT: 16 AND ELECTRIC LABEL: UNIVERSAL RELEASE: 9.27.13 The title of Lorde’s debut album, Pure Heroine, is adequate wordplay on the New Zealand singer-songwriter’s intoxicating sound....
View ArticleRUN FOR COVER: SHERYL CROW VS. HAIM + LORDE: “STRONG ENOUGH”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version. Prepare for a major bending of rules as we hear musicians throw around genres, tempos, style, and intent. Whether...
View ArticleCOUPLES COUNSELING: “FLOATING HEADS”
GENRE | FREUDIAN BLIPS VERDICT | MANIC-DEPRESSIVE PIXIE DREAM GIRL LABEL | SELF-RELEASED We like to pretend that we surround ourselves with geniuses. We know the truth lies elsewhere, but we still like...
View Article2013 YEAR IN REVIEW: NAMES, FACES, & NUTCASES
2013 was a pretty wild year to be a human living on planet Earth–right, geese? Many profound achievements occurred this year–namely, Dina Lohan did her family proud and finally received her very first...
View ArticleARE GRAMMY WINNERS OLDER NOW THAN THEY WERE 20 YEARS AGO? 50 YEARS AGO?
We don’t remember where the inquiry originally came from, but we’ve been contemplating average pop star age for some time, and so we finally buckled down and crunched the numbers. A few hours later,...
View ArticleNO THOUGHTS MAGAZINE, BOOK ELEVEN
Founded in August of 2009 by Michael J. DeMeo, No Thoughts Magazine is a high quality, limited print, boutique photozine that aims to highlight photo talent from around the world. It’s printed two...
View ArticleTHE LINEUP: BOSTON CALLING ANNOUNCES ARTISTS FOR FALL 2014
Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian for DigBoston While we were a bit underwhelmed by some of the headliners for the spring edition of Boston Calling (read: beach bummer Jack Johnson and the oh-so-2008 The...
View ArticleCALL AND RESPONSE: WITH BOSTON CALLING, THE CITY BEGINS TREATING ITS DENIZENS...
Photo By: Samuel Quinn When Boston Calling started last year, the city was in its final year of Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s reign and the whole thing seemed like a crapshoot. But Menino’s gamble to host a...
View ArticleBOSTON CALLING ANNOUNCES ART CONTEST
Photo By Samuel Quinn Boston Calling is gettin’ artsy. This morning the city’s biannual music festival announced Blank Canvas, an opportunity for artists to present a three-by-five-foot mural to be...
View ArticleCOUNTDOWN TO BOSTON CALLING: FUTURE ISLANDS
You don’t need a sophisticated network of real-time facial recognition technology to tell we’re excited for September’s edition of Boston Calling. The festival returns next month on Friday, September 5...
View ArticleCOUNTDOWN TO BOSTON CALLING: LORDE
You don’t need a sophisticated network of real-time facial recognition technology to tell we’re excited for September’s edition of Boston Calling. The festival returns next month on Friday, September 5...
View ArticleDAY TWO: BOSTON CALLING WEATHERS THE STORM
Photos By Derek Kouyoumjian What a difference a day can make. Friday was like a perfect debut EP — three solid sets, with a backdrop of beautiful weather. Saturday at Boston Calling was more of a...
View ArticleBECAUSE GOOD THINGS CAN ALWAYS GET BETTER
Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian Another successful edition of Boston Calling is in the books and there have been plenty of words published on it already, much of it positive, including what you’ve read here...
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