Well, if 2008 gave us the Ice Cube/BONE ZONE video mash-up and the giant papier mâché cop head, what could the new year bring? A triple release, says guitarist Dan O'Neil. Details are still sketchy, but the band are hard at work with go-to engineer Brad Wallace (of Transistor Transistor) and resident post-production samples and beats artist Kevin Driscoll ("Who fucks all our songs up," according to O'Neil). Expect earfuls of Ritalin-gobbling shards of rock in the form of two CDs — Candy Clown for Prez 2048 and Get On Top of Me You Big Baby — and a DVD compilation called Brainmania with footage from 30 live shows and home video projects. "Everything we've done since we existed," says O'Neil. "And a lot of other stuff besides." Is that even possible?
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- Me time
It’s a lazy weekday afternoon, and we’re finishing breakfast at Kevin Micka’s house in Jamaica Plain.
- Various artists | Winter Is Cold
As easy as it is to get caught up in the teeming swirl of our ever-generous local rock scene, it's just as easy to fall right out of the loop.
- Manufactured landscapes
Depending on our mood, most of us seek out albums that coddle our hopes, fears, and concerns; failing that, we want escapism, foreign environments that either take us where we want to be or startle us with the thrill of the new.
- The scene is now
As newspapers cede arbiter status to random bloggers with Fios and afternoons off, the function of polls like our humble offering must change out of necessity. What once was a forecast is now more like a diagnostic — it's anthropology versus tastemakery.
- On a roll
When I go bowling with bands, it’s usually to extract them from their natural habitat and place them in a controlled environment for study. In the case of my recent bowling date with Hallelujah the Hills, though, my aim was true. I just wanted to bowl.
- Against interpretation
To file Hallelujah the Hills under “literary rock” would be, according to frontman Ryan Walsh, an insult to literature and an insult to rock. Hallelujah the Hills, "Wave Backwards to Massachusetts" (mp3)
- Glacial tensions
A few weeks ago, Summerduck — a new band led by Farhad Ebrahimi (bassist for the sadly defunct Night Rally) — walked in and turned the place into a cathedral.
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