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Boston (pronounced en-us-Boston.ogg /ˈbɒstən/ (help·info)) is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact.[11] Boston city proper had a 2008 estimated population of 620,535, making it the twenty-first largest in the country.[6] Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country.[8] Greater Boston as a commuting region includes six Massachusetts counties, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester,[12] all of Rhode Island and parts of New Hampshire; it is home to 7.5 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.[9][13]

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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Wild Yaks - River May Come (Live) + Blood Red Field
Wild Yaks sound like the breakage of many things–bottles, stages, wood, guitar strings, sax reeds, whatever. They are fantastically sprawling and totally wasted. Their new album, 10 Ships (Don’t Die Yet!), just came out through Ernest Jenning and contains the below two jams and others like them. They are playing in Boston tonight and apparently there will be free Maker’s Mark...
I've been dreaming about creatures, coming from dunes on foggy beaches
For a supposed Blogger, I don’t really spend a lot of time exploring the Blogosphere these days. When I do, though, one of the sites I return to is Bradley’s Almanac, a busy, streets ahead of the pack blog based on the Boston music scene. I envy the selection of exciting gigs he seems to have ranged in front of him every weekend and the time he appears to have to go to them all. He...
VOLCANO SUNS Albums are Reissued!
Once Upon A Time, there was A Band known as Volcano Suns… DATELINE: BOSTON - The Bright Orange Years (1985) and All-Night Lotus Party (1986), the classic first releases from Boston’s beloved Volcano Suns have gotten the reissue treatment from the good folks at Merge Records. The songs on both collections were lovingly remastered by engineer Bob Weston and have never sounded better....
NEW DOWNLOAD: Daniel Johnston - I Had Lost My Mind
(Photo: Tim Broddin) Daniel Johnston is known mainly for two things: having Kurt Cobain as a famous fan, and having spent a good portion of his life dealing with schizophrenia. His immense catalog of songs — tender, honest, direct and weird, often all at once — somehow gets short shrift. Take “I Had Lost My Mind,” a brief, wildly catchy tune from Is and Always Was (...
DOWNLOAD: Hatcham Social - So So Happy Making
British indie-pop group Hatcham Social have enjoyed some stellar company, sharing their drummer with a rising Klaxons, collaborating with The Horrors’ Faris Badwan, and signing in the States to TBD Records, home of White Rabbits and this band called Radiohead. The Badwan-produced "So So Happy Making" was initially released as a single last year in the UK, though it’s now...
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The Best Things In Life Are Free
The Hush Now From: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Boston indie-popsters, The Hush Now, are releasing the second single, Contrails, from their upcoming, sophomore album, Constellations which is due out February 16th. The Hush Now’s ivy league, indie-pop-rock sound is reminiscent of early Weezer and Wilco with the muscle of shoegaze’ s glory days thrown in for...
The Daily Graboid
Lots of great stuff this week, as the new album Middle Cyclone from Neko Case certainly comes out on top with having both excellent songs and equally good cover art.  Honestly, she could release an album of her just reading from a phone book and I would probably buy it.  I’m sure we can all agree on this one. A couple of other albums that I would personally recommend have...
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart + caUSE co-MOTION + The Depreciation Guild | Mercury Lounge | 2.07.2009
The word "twee" gets thrown around a lot when talking about The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. They are cute, with tendencies towards la-la choruses and cardigans ("we have three extras just in case"). But what you don’t hear a lot, at least not yet, is how much they rock. Not the way, say, Cheeseburger rocks, but singer Kip keeps his guitar in buzzsaw mode and the...
How Now So Cow?
It was a total High Fidelity moment. I was hanging out at Academy Records Annex, getting my fingers dirty flipping through used records something came over the speakers that instantly made me prick up my ears. Low-fi pop, a bit shambly, but in the best way and every song was super-catchy and there was a clever wit going on too. They had by by the third song and I went up and asked what was...
The Whip - Divebomb
Rarely does the US release of an already-available foreign record seem like a true second chance, but kudos to Razor & Tie for picking up The Whip’s X Marks Destination for release on March 3rd because it’s a solid album that got overlooked in oh-eight’s deluge of post-Klaxons dance bands. The Mancunian foursome do the full-band electro-house thing and do it well, drawing...
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Psychic Ills, Prince Rama Of Ayodhya, Lord Jeff, Truman Peyote, Manners at Pierre Menard Gallery
Prince Rama Of Ayodhya Lord Jeff Truman Peyote Manners More photos can be seen on my Flickr. This was a great show. But I have a feeling everyone else enjoyed it a lot more than I did. First of all, I had an excruciating headache that no amount of Excedrin would eliminate. And then there was the whole lineup changing thing. You see, it’s not very easy for me to get into Boston...
12 Tales From Winter City
Band name: The Young Republic Label: End Of the Road Records Teaser: The Young Republic have been dropping gems on our desks for a while now, so we rubbed our hands together with glee when we heard that this debut LP was on the way. The Sonic Reducer brings us this review… Pull quote 2: it’s the sheer quality of the songwriting and the gusto of the playing...
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  • In Pictures: Steve Gullick retrospective

    Legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick has a retrospective at Manchester’s KRAAK Gallery running from March 12th til March 27th, featuring shots taken for NME and Melody Maker as well as his...

  • In Pictures: Tune-Yards, Trash Kit and Think about Life

    To accompany the review of Tune-yards’ Monday gig at Cargo, a few tasty shots of Think about Life, Trash Kit and New England native Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-yArDs. Read the review of the night...

  • In Pictures: Worst Record Covers of the Year

    We have collected some truly heinous examples of recent album covers, from Empire Of The Sun’s Star Wars travesty to the banal evil that is Razorlight’s Slipway Fire. Discretionary...

  • In Pictures: Best record covers 2009

    Album art in this gallery was selected based on several simple traits: strong concept, fine graphics including creative typography and general lushness. The first three of ‘The Best Record...

  • In Pictures: Placebo

    Placebo pictures: just in - some photos of Placebo and Brian Molko from last week’s gig at the Glasgow SECC. Also check out the review here

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  • the Dirty Dishes - In the Clouds EP

    Ahhhh. I love this. When Jenny Tuite of the Dirty Dishes emailed us at Artrocker.com, there was no extended press drivel or desperate pleadings for promotion, just a simple "Hey there!...

  • Turning Japanese

    The Japanese War Effort From: Scotland, United Kingdom The Japanese War Effort is a one man band, based in Edinburgh. Martin Moog (surely an adopted name otherwise baby he was born to moog...

  • Mondrian, Cakes, Pastries and Mille-Feuille

    There’s a tiny town to the north-east of Paris called Peronne. It’s in the Somme, so it rains a lot, and both the buildings and surrounding countryside are deeply gashed with marks from...

  • EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Egyptian Hip Hop - Round Pot (This is Horseflesh's Rad Pitt Reincarnation)

    According to This is Horseflesh (the nom de guerre of Egyptian Hip Hop drummer Alex Pierce) this fantastic ‘reincarnation’ of the band’s own "Rad Pitt" was written to...

  • Bromheads: Dedicated mp3

    Bromheads are continuing their free monthly download singles with a genius reworking of ‘Dedicated to the One I Love’, a song made famous by the Shirelles.  Unsubtle mix tape...

  • Japanese Voyeurs new single, track giveaway

    If Wyldman’s recent live review has picqued your interest in Japanese Voyeurs, then you might be interested in their free download track ‘Dumb’.  They’re biffing it out...

  • Sissy And The Blisters, and The Folly Of Rock And Roll Adoration

    Forming a rock ‘n’ roll band is one of the more deceptive and fickle actions a group of young men (and it’s almost always young men) can take. It seems so easy: get a self-...

  • 2hot2sweat host Pet Sounds, give away awesome mp3

    Fantastic electro punkers 2hot2sweat are hosting a new club on Weds 17th Feb at The Social.  They promise "A night of animal themed musical mayhem" so appropriately, the night is...

  • RCRD OF THE DAY: Hot Chip - Take It In

    Though it’s slotted last on their new album, One Life Stand, "Take It In" is really Hot Chip at their most essential and distilled–re-contextualizing incredibly intimate,...

  • Fan Death: New EP

    The Art Of Confusion After gushing over Dandi Wind for a very long time I’m only just getting into Fan Death, Dandilion Wind Opaine’s other notable musical project in collaboration...
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