October 2006 - Posts - On The Download

October 19, 2006

Meet the midget: new Lady Sovereign contest, plus the Missy remix
By Carly Carioli

It's been a long time coming, but after a long roller coaster ride the S-O-V is finally blowing up. There was a moment, back when her NYC debut ended in a puke-stained tank, and her subsequent US minitour bombed, where it looked like it was going to kill the buzz that greeted her first two batches of UK singles.

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mp3, Rap, The Paradise

October 19, 2006

Mp3 of the Week: Diecast
By Carly Carioli

DOWNLOAD: Diecast, "Fadeaway" (mp3)

For their new Internal Revolution (Century Media), Diecast upgraded their rhythm section and came out singing -- not to mention swinging. Their latest stylistic makeover moves them several rungs up the Mass-metal depth chart, retooling standard-issue hardcore with Eurometal's sleek, precision-calibrated dueling guitars and thrash-pop sing-a-longs where frontman Paul Stoddard sounds more Jeckyl than Hyde.

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Boston, metal, OTD Mp3 Exclusive

October 19, 2006

Gallery: Return to the Pit mayhem at O'Brien's
By Carly Carioli

Abhorred

Revocation

Hekseri

Watchmaker

Alex Onslought, pictured with cash money

Return to the Pit Benefit Extravaganza
October 18 at O'Brien's
Photos courtesty of . . . who else?

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Live, metal, O'Briens

October 18, 2006

Download this: Converge, Tom Waits, DJ C, Tittsworth, Pink Skull, Malcolm Gladwell
By Carly Carioli
1. We told you we'd let you know as soon as it was here: the title track from Converge's forthcoming No Heroes, complete and uncut:
- Converge, "No Heroes" (mp3)
2. While we were digging that up, we came across a bunch of newish/unreleased Tom Waits, from the 3-disc, vault-emptrying Anti set Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards:

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mp3, Video

October 18, 2006

Returning to the Pit

By Carly Carioli

IF YOU GO:

Watchmaker, Extinction Agenda, Abhorred, Revocation, and Hekseri
to benefit returntothepit.com
O'Brien's, 9pm, $7

We ourselves have been known to make use of the services of Return to the Pit, especially when we need photos of anything metal-related. Judging by the photographic evidence, Aaron and Carina have consumed more metal than any people we know.

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Boston, metal, mp3

October 18, 2006

Tonight: Soul Estate at News Cafe

By Carly Carioli

It's been over a year since we checked in with the Soul Estate squad, but former Wiseguys/Hangmen3 disciple Man Terror has kept his game up in the studio, spitting out mixtapes every couple of months and building his movement from the Orchard Park projects outwards. Our backpacker friends are hereby warned that you will not find any emo shit on here, although you will find Chubby Chub drops, Disco D beats, and other types of events associated with non-indie rap music.

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Boston, mp3, Rap

October 18, 2006

Gallery: Social Distortion at Avalon

By Carly Carioli

Social Distortion
October 16 at Avalon
Photos by Nicole Tammaro

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Avalon, Live, Rocknroll

October 17, 2006

Tanya Donelly: This is your YouTube life

By Carly Carioli

IF YOU GO:

Tanya Donelly
performing songs from This Hungry Life (out today!)
12:30 pm at Newbury Comics/Government Center

Tanya Donelly's got dirt on OTD, so let's air it out right now: she was present for a Super Bowl party (one that eventually ended in Patriots victory) where OTD got so stressed out that we ended up puking in a certain music editor's bathroom.

We've grown accostomed to seeing Diddy "like you never seen him before" -- see: the infamous "Pee Diddy" clip -- but the world's most solipsistic rap mogul has topped even himself with DiddyTV, the custom YouTube channel that's been bringing us all-Diddy, all the time in the countdown to Press Play. A big sigh of relief, then, that the wait is over -- has been for a minute, actually; teenagers have been downloading it since last week -- and the album is in stores.

IF YOU GO:
Daniel Handler and Stephin Merritt
performing songs from The Tragic Treasury: Songs inspired by A Series of Unfortunate Events
7 pm, Natick High School [Google Map]

While you're holding your breath for those two new Magnetic Fields albums, we can not discourage you enough from picking up a copy of the second CD by the Gothic Archies -- The Tragic Treasury, comprising Stephin Merritt's contruibutions in song to the audio book versions of Lemony Snickett's A Series of Unfortunate Events -- and beating a course for Natick High School, where tonight Merritt will be joined by Daniel Handler (on accordion!) for an exceedingly rare concert of those songs.

Bad Ash

The Red Chord

Mongrel

Municipal Waste

The Acacia Strain

Gwar

Rock N Shock Day 2
With Gwar, the Red Chord, about a dozen other bands, and a shitload of horror movie geeks
October 14 At the Palladium and the DCU Center, Worcester
Photos courtesy Return to the Pit. See more here.

Bouncing Souls, Street Dogs, World Inferno Friendship Society, Whole Wheat Bread
October 14 at Avalon
Photos by Carina Mastrocola

Pet Shop Boys
October 13 at the Opera House
Photos by Rita Lombardi

Photo: Rita Lombardi.

Bonkers party snaps by Mike McKay at Brilliant Mistake.

MSTRKFT
October 12 at Paper/Bill's Bar

For those of you who thought Paper was faded permanently into early-2006, MSTRKRFT (or at least a recognizable fraction thereof) descended on Landsdowne Street to restore the night to its glory-days program of sell-out crowd and stellar atmosphere.

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