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March 06, 2008

Berklee to open all-ages concert venue
By Caitlin E. Curran

Good news for the under-21 crowd (or anyone tiring of the Middle East - if that's even possible). Before Lyons and co. open up Boston's House of Blues, Berklee's beating them to the punch with a shiny new all-ages "200-person capacity concert venue, featuring high-end PA and lighting systems, video and DVD capabilities" on Boylston Street.

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All-ages, Boston, hmmmm

November 29, 2007

Paramore: Boston fans-only live show (video & mp3s)
By webteam

Paramore, "Crushcrushcrush" (Live in Boston, 11/24/2007)

Paramore, "Pressure" (Live in Boston, 11/24/2007)

Paramore, "Misery Business" (Live in Boston, 11/24/2007)

We were way late to the Paramore bandwagon, and only picked up on them a few weeks before Riot! hit stores this year, but for shit's sake, you knew we were gonna love this band: shamelessly pop, adorable teenage girl singer, and a hit song that bounds onto Top 40 radio despite being a) complicated, b) sung by a girl in a rock band who's not Avril Lavigne, and c) a song that casually smashes to smithereens a host of stereotypes about what nice girls are supposed to sing about.

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All-ages, mp3, OTD Mp3 Exclusive

November 29, 2007

Paramore: Boston fans-only live show (video & mp3s)
By Carly Carioli

Paramore, "Crushcrushcrush" (Live in Boston, 11/24/2007)

Paramore, "Pressure" (Live in Boston, 11/24/2007)

Paramore, "Misery Business" (Live in Boston, 11/24/2007)

We were way late to the Paramore bandwagon, and only picked up on them a few weeks before Riot! hit stores this year, but for shit's sake, you knew we were gonna love this band: shamelessly pop, adorable teenage girl singer, and a hit song that bounds onto Top 40 radio despite being a) complicated, b) sung by a girl in a rock band who's not Avril Lavigne, and c) a song that casually smashes to smithereens a host of stereotypes about what nice girls are supposed to sing about.

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All-ages, mp3, OTD Mp3 Exclusive

November 28, 2007

Staff reactions to the news of Zac Hanson's first child
By Caitlin E. Curran

We still remember the innocent, pre-children days of 1997.

As we reported earlier, news from the best press release ever in our inbox this morning: Zac Hanson's having a baby! Zac (who's 22, the way) was the last childless member of the MMMBopping trio. Issac and Taylor have been popping them out since ye olden days of 2002.

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All-ages, boy band daddies, music news

November 15, 2007

Remembering the Rathskeller: 10 years after
By Carly Carioli

The Rat's Last Stand: November 15, 1997

Any good scenester can tell you that November 15, 1997 was the date of the final gig ever played at Boston's legendary, notorious punk club, the Rat. The final band onstage was, appropriately enough, Gang Green, who probably drank (and sold!) more beers at that joint than anyone.

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All-ages, Boston, local

February 01, 2007

Mp3 of the Week: UV Protection
By Carly Carioli
UV Pro: Astro Teen Burqa Force

IF YOU GO:
- DJ Rndom & VJ Robotkid, UV Protection, Longknives, and Awesome Brothers
- Saturday, February 3
- Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr., Cambridge
- 8 pm, $10, all-ages
Yes, it's a bad day to be a 'droid in Boston. But while the BPD sweeps up after a Mooninite invasion, our favorite home-grown robot-rock outfit are gearing up for a takeover.

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All-ages, Cambridge, Gimme indie rock

June 27, 2006

Gallery: Cute Is What We Aim For at the ICC Church

By Carly Carioli

All photos (c) Byron Smith

Speaking of how Fueled By Ramen rules the universe, the kids were dying to let us let them shoot Cute Is What We Aim For, who we'll all be talking about in a few months as the next Panic! at the Disco. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. First, they had to play the obligatory packed-solid, buzzed-to-death church show up in Allston, just so all our fave scenesters could say they Saw Them Way Back When.

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All-ages, ICC Church, Live

March 08, 2006

Live: Smoking Popes at the Middle East

By webteam

The recently reunited Smoking Popes absolutely, uh, smoked last night downstairs at the Middle East at their first show in town in “like eight years,” according to frontman Josh Caterer. As one of the best and most under-appreciated power pop bands of the ’90s, Caterer, his brothers — guitarist Eli and bassist Matt — and drummer Mike Felumlee deftly married big power chords and big hooks with Josh’s distinctive Kermit-the-Frog-meets-Morrissey croon.

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All-ages, Live, Middle East

January 27, 2006

OTD Exclusive: Devil Music

By webteam

"I'm not that good at pictures," protested lil' man Alex Whalen-Brown
right before our cameraman took this photo.

Photos by Matt Teuten.

We’ve seen the three-man musical-amoeba that is Devil Music headline the Milky Way as an electric-violin-led rock trio. We’ve seem ‘em perform contemporary-classical works with a 20-piece orchestra at the sold-out Mills Gallery -- and one of those works was a balding dude mouth-farting for like ten minutes, seriously.

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All-ages, OTD Mp3 Exclusive

January 27, 2006

OTD mp3 exclusive: Verbana Darvell

By Carly Carioli

Look, before you start, you're preaching to the choir, OK? Dudes come up from Rhode Island talking "punk rock band with a violinist," we're not just gonna yellowcard the fuckers, we're gonna red-card 'em and they're out for the rest of the game. We hear you, brah. But give us a second on this here band VERBANA DARVELL (yep, not only are they punks-with-violin, they've also got a name that sounds like a cheap hooker trying to make it in a Broadway chorus line).

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All-ages, ICC Church, OTD Mp3 Exclusive

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Boston Phoenix
Berklee to open all-ages concert venue
Published 3/6/2008 by Caitlin E. Curran
Good news for the under-21 crowd (or anyone tiring of the Middle East - if that's even possible). Be...

Boston Phoenix
Paramore: Boston fans-only live show (video & mp3s)
Published 11/29/2007 by webteam
Paramore, "Crushcrushcrush" (Live in Boston, 11/24/2007) Paramore, "Pressure" (Live in Boston, 11/2...