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  • November 11, 2005
    Quintronics
    By webteam











    New Orleans dance-funk organ-and-puppet-show duo Quintron and Miss Pussycat sold out the Middle East Upstairs last night along with Netherlander Harry Merry (who on his amazing autobiography page describes his influences as "Rock'N'Roll, Rhythm & Blues, Beat, Ballads, Schlager, Latino, Chansons, Liedjes, and lately also some Slovenian Pop and Serbian Turbo-folk") and Cambridge's own white-boy-rap party freaks Big Digits

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  • November 11, 2005
    Catholic rock
    By webteam

    This is Craig Finn. He never slept with your hoodrat friend.











    Blurry photos from Cami, who had to knock over some blonde
    shitty BC girls (definitely their first time at the Middle East) to take these.

    Craig Finn went to Boston College. So did we. Even though the thirtysomething, hand-jiving Hold Steady frontman hasn’t outgrown the Tappa-Kegga-Day mentality endemic to BC undergraduate living (after their last Saturday-night set at the Middle East, Finn himself was later selling customized combination Hold Steady lighters/beer openers at the merch table), we feel a weird kinship with the dude.















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  • November 10, 2005
    The neighborhood of Make Believe
    By webteam
    If you hadn't heard of Make Believe -- the latest Kinsella Brothers family project (Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz, Owls, etc) -- you may have heard the story of that rock drummer who this past June dropped trou, exposed his junk, and wrung the sweat from his shorts all over an all-ages Christian rock crowd in Oklahoma. Didn't find pictures of the junk, but someone had their cellphone camera out for the arrest (pdf).

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  • November 10, 2005
    OTD Exclusive: Hilken Mancini & Chris Colbourn
    By webteam


    Someday, Hilken Mancini and Chris Colbourn will be the answer to a trivia question: "Name the record played on by members of Dinosaur Jr [J Mascis], Buffalo Tom [obv.], and Fuzzy [obv., also drummer Nate Darden]." In the mid-'90s, those three bands were pretty much the heart and soul of what unfortunately became known as alternative rock.

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  • November 10, 2005
    Stream the new Neil Diamond
    By webteam

    The new man in black.

    Yes, everything you heard is true: with Johnny Cash dead and headed for his definitive silver-screen enshrinement, Rick Rubin promptly grabbed another washed-up legend, locked him in a room with a guitar, and made him write a comeback album, thereby saving Neil Diamond from a sad, empty life playing "Sweet Caroline" for tens of thousands of people a night and raking in gazillions of dollars a year.


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  • November 10, 2005
    Colliparking
    By webteam


    Come next month when the year-end lists start rolling in, we expect to be hearing a lot about Mr. Collipark (a/k/a DJ Smurf, a/k/a Beat-In-Azz, a/k/a Michael Crooms), the producer behind the two biggest stage whispers of the year (or maybe make that three?). What we didn't expect was to hear Mr. Crooms shouting out Phoenix hip-hop critic Chris Nelson's blog.

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  • November 09, 2005
    Aerosmith Fails To Sell Out Garden
    By webteam

    What the hell are Aerosmith photos doing on the NASA website?

    Steven Tyler fatigue hits all time high! ClearChannel in a tizzy! Via the e-box:
    Media Alert-

    AEROSMITH TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE!!
    AT THE TD BANKNORTH GARDEN & THE DUNKIN DONUTS CENTER

    Aerosmith
    With Lenny Kravitz
    At The TD Banknorth Garden












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  • November 09, 2005
    Tuesday Ticket Alert
    By Carly Carioli
    Late again. Sigh. First and foremost:



    1. That's what's up. Cosmo Baker back on the attack, bringing that Rub to Boston.

    LISTEN: Cosmo Baker, "G-Unit On Death Row (Game/50 Cent v. Snoop & Dre)" (mp3, from It's the Motherfucking Remix Vol 2)

    2. Now back to regularly scheduled on-sale alerts . . .

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  • November 08, 2005
    Glass Set
    By webteam


    1. Former Turkish Delight and Betwixt frontwoman Leah Callahan has been exploring musical theater with a vaudeville cabaret act and her two-year-old Illegitimate Theatre Company, but she’s getting back to her post-punk roots with a new band, the GLASS SET. Although the band have existed for only two months, many of the songs are taken from a rock opera Callahan recorded earlier this year at Richard Marr’s Galaxy Park Studios with members of CODETTA and LADY OF SPAIN

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  • November 08, 2005
    The Voodoo That You Do
    By webteam





    1. Just back from the Voodoo Music Fest in New Orleans (click for VH1 footage), the newly bulked-up Trent Reznor is in town. What's up with the Danzig physique? Mebbe all the carbohydrates from the trends and styles he's been absorbing lately: over the past decade, he's curated industrial-strength dance music in the way that Bowie once did for glam rock and Madonna does for pop.

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  • November 08, 2005
    Shady
    By webteam


    Famous white dadrapper Eminem is threatening to pull a Jay-Z and retire after releasing a greatest hits album. Spine Magazine has the new song, another entry (last entry?) in his Haylie series: in this one, she finally starts talking back. As OTD is blogging on a computer next to a three year old and five year old begging to watch March of the Penguins, we got love for this stuff, but can't imagine why anyone else would.

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  • November 07, 2005
    Turpentine Bros
    By webteam




    photos by Cami.

    Last Thursday evening, the Keys to the Streets of Fear dudes lured garage-punk fans to an art opening at Stel's, the fashionista hideout on Newbury Street, with promises of a secret gig to follow. And they didn't disappoint. After blasting Thee Michelle Gun Elephant and Thee Headcoates through their slop-godz DJ contraption "The System" -- record player through guitar amp, guitar pickup, PA -- they led annhiliated patrons to a practice-space gig by everyone's new favourite band, the Turpentine Brothers, who have quickly taken the keys to the city from drummer Tara's old band Mr.





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  • November 06, 2005
    All the old bands suck.
    By webteam

    Easter Bloodhounds = your new favorite band.

    That band you formed four years ago? They suck. That band your friends formed in February? They suck. All the old bands suck. They're all so fucking boring. OTD is bored out of OTD's skull.
    It's time for some new bands. It's time for some new voices. Wipe everyone out.



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  • November 04, 2005
    Dino Jr. vinyl
    By webteam


    Around here, at least, J Mascis is just another old, weird, reclusive guitar genius who you might bump into from time to time. Like you'll see him around and think, "Ewww, fuck. What happened to J Mascis?" It's almost like you can totally forget that people who don't have awkward encounters with the guy still revere him enough to get excited about Dinosaur back catalogue

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  • November 04, 2005
    Bell epoch
    By webteam


    More proof that Montreal is the Louisville of the aughts: not only have its indie-pop bands taken over the college-rock airwaves, they also have modern-classical aspirations. The BELL ORCHESTRE began as a group of indie-rockers (including members of, ugh, the Arcade Fire) playing improvised chamber music for modern dancers, and their playful debut, Recording A Tape the Colour of the Light (Rough Trade), includes a duet for two typewriters, a credit for "stethoscope," and a song that throws Nina Sky-like handclap rhythms under what sounds like a mash-up of Chuck Mangione's French horn and the siren from Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle."

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