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MATT PARISH

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Hear! Hear!

The first annual Megapolis Festival sounds off
The sound of smashing glass plays beneath a micro-cassette recording of children laughing, and Spanish instructions repeat while a chorus of monks narrate the proceedings in Latin.
By MATT PARISH  |  April 22, 2009

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Alt- together now

Sarah Borges leaps ahead by getting back to basics
At some point during the recording of their new album, someone in the Broken Singles realized that Sarah Borges had been botching the chords to their cover of the Lemonheads' "Ride with Me."
By MATT PARISH  |  April 08, 2009

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Hot Box experiment on themselves

Lab Rats
We’ll get to Stolzenberg’s band in a minute; right now I’m engrossed in her PhD work at Boston College.
By MATT PARISH  |  March 23, 2009

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Grand designs

Taxpayer do some sound planning
Last year at this time, Taxpayer were up in New Hampshire in a backwoods cabin they'd locked themselves in for a long weekend.
By MATT PARISH  |  March 12, 2009

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Heavy flow

Doomstar! let it all come naturally
I was a little dismayed last week when I dropped into Doomstar!'s Central Square rehearsal space
By MATT PARISH  |  March 05, 2009

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Me time

Animal Hospital has achieved a hermetic place in the city’s musical landscape.
It’s a lazy weekday afternoon, and we’re finishing breakfast at Kevin Micka’s house in Jamaica Plain.
By MATT PARISH  |  February 25, 2009

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Accidental purist

Stephen Drury takes on Stockhausen
In one of Karlheinz Stockhausen's weirdest creations, the ensemble is instructed to "play a sound with the certainty that you have an infinite amount of time and space." Stephen Drury doesn't mind that so much. But fasting for four days? "No."
By MATT PARISH  |  February 18, 2009

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Rogues' gallery

Lucky Dragons and Stephen Prina: Rockin' part of Andrew Witkin's installation at the ICA
Wayward visitors spilling into Andrew Witkin's Untitled 1997–2007 installation at the ICA last Sunday nearly tripped over Luke Fischbeck, who was crouched over an array of electrified sticks, shakers, tiny drums, and flutes.
By MATT PARISH  |  February 10, 2009

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Zu | Carboniferous

Ipecac (2009)
Zu — an instrumental outfit formed in Rome in 1999 — were destined to be on Mike Patton's Ipecac label.
By MATT PARISH  |  February 09, 2009

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Glacial tensions

The slow, brute force of Summerduck
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.
By MATT PARISH  |  February 03, 2009

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Fat Worm of Error: Windsong On Our Own Mind

Milky Way, January 25, 2009
The air downstairs at the Milky Way was a thick soup of body funk — the kind of stale coloration that a T-shirt stuck at the bottom of a pile of laundry tends to achieve after a few weeks.
By MATT PARISH  |  January 27, 2009

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Weirdo Records sets up shop

Against all odds
"I have a philosophy degree, which has really come in handy in my life," says Weirdo Records owner Angela Sawyer. "Especially when I'm sitting here watching some guy drool snot on a $50 record."
By MATT PARISH  |  January 20, 2009

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Puttin’ on the Brits

Logan 5 and the Runners go beyond homage
There’s a song on Logan 5 and the Runners’ first album, Featurette, where Dave Berndt sings, “I wish I could see you at night/Naked through your window.”
By MATT PARISH  |  January 13, 2009

Thaww, yeah

Local CDs to help you make it until spring
Ah, wintertime. It's dark, it's cold, it seems like you might lose a few extremities to frostbite on the way to the club. You know what? Just go for it.
By MATT PARISH  |  December 29, 2008

Peddle meets mettle

Bone Zone and adorable pajamas at Mass Market
"I'm starting to have misgivings about playing this show," says Bone Zone bassist Matt Zaccarino.
By MATT PARISH  |  December 16, 2008

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Dirge overkill

The sad songs of Winterpills
Against the grainy mix of plucky guitars and water-drop bells in "Burning Hearts," Flora Reed recalls a long-ago tryst that she traces from Paris cafûs across tarmacs and ancient ruins.
By MATT PARISH  |  December 09, 2008

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ohGr

Tracing Ogre’s trajectory
Skinny Puppy's Nivek Ogre has made the rounds for the better part of this decade as ohGr, with a more cut-and-paste approach to the electric misanthropy his old band pioneered.
By MATT PARISH  |  December 05, 2008

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Insides out

The projective folk of Mr. Sister
The everyday interaction with animals other than domestic pets has become a whimsical thing of the past. Which leaves those musicians who still write numbers with furry protagonists in a bit of a throwback situation, their songs almost instant period pieces.
By MATT PARISH  |  December 05, 2008

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Primordial stages

Boston's open mics: Launch pads or crash sites?
Boston's open mics: Launch pads or crash sites?
By MATT PARISH  |  November 24, 2008

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Heavy mettle

Hel Toro are just brutal enough
It might have been in Lake Station, Indiana, that Hel Toro realized that, no, they were not all that metal.
By MATT PARISH  |  November 04, 2008
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