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April 29, 2005

Evil-sounding shit
By webteam

photo by Mikael Kennedy

That’s Nat Voghlan from Transistor Transistor posed in the Danziggy alley mugshot by buddy Mikael Kennedy. Kennedy, who used to squat in the Royal Street closet of TT's Brad Wallace, snapped all the grainy, B&W photos for TT’s recent Erase All Name and Likeness (Level-Plane), a record our OTD bretheren reports is “some frantic, electrifying, pulverizing, evil-sounding shit.

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April 28, 2005

The most punctual emcee ever
By webteam

Image from here

1. Overzealous door dudes at the Middle East last night stole some of OTD's pens, for fear the Pitchfork nerds homie-ing out under BoSox hats would blog each others' eyes out. So the details about the Dizzee Rascal show might be a little sketchy. One thing we couldn't forget, though, is that when the grimey limey says Showtime, he means showtime: Dyl was onstage right at 10:15, bouncing around with his name on his shirt.

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April 27, 2005

Dizzee: the day after
By webteam
More soon on last night's Rascality; in the meantime, photos and highlights over at Chris Lemon-Red.

You've seen Oliver Mak's stuff on the walls at Great Scott, and a few of you might've caught his Bangers N Mash night at ZuZu. This Friday night he's back at ZuZu for one-night-only crunktastica and grimeyness, now that Dizzee whet yr whistles.

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April 26, 2005

Mother Foulker
By webteam

Closing time.

1. Above graphic is for real, for real: the boys down in the Square have brought the hardcore tee heat yet again. Available in limited quantities, only in Kenmore, only on game night. Thought I was gonna get the inside scoop last night on how Keith ended up coming out to "Mother," but somehow that story didn't quite get told.

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April 26, 2005

Kings of Rock
By webteam

Tsar photo: Jim Lowney

1. Go ahead and groan, but these kids have been around for a minute, and what with outsourcing and all, we always get patriotic-like when some fashionable American band capitalizes on all the hard work (and hard rock) that our Swedish bretheren have suffered through all these years.

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April 22, 2005

Throw the Killswitch
By webteam

Killswitch Engage

1. John MacLean abducted by aliens! Made of tinfoil pie-plates! Who want to get to second base! And he's not exactly against the idea! Go here, and click on "video."

2. Killswitch on Kimmel?! Mmm-hmm. But will Mike D (no, not that Mike D) be back in time? Oddly, Kimmel site says show's airing last night, though band's peeps say tonight.

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April 20, 2005

Blue light special
By webteam

Decoded: "We're still Radiohead for pussies."

1. Drop by Nervous Acid and pick up the new Coldplay single. We liked the ringtone better.

Coldplay, "The Speed of Sound" (right-click, save-as)

2. Matzo Metal: Dee Snider's Power-Metal Passover, Or, I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Yarmulke

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April 19, 2005

Ticket alert
By webteam
This just in:

Eminem and 50 cent
With G-Unit, Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz, D-12, Obie Trice, Stat Quo
At Tweeter Center
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at 7:00 pm
Tickets are $81.00, $66.00 and $56.00
Tickets go on-sale Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 10:00 am

Alkaline Trio
At AvalonThursday, June 23, 2005 at 7:00 pm
Tickets are $16.

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April 19, 2005

Hex-a-gram
By webteam

Mary gets her Wednesday on.

The new M. Timony reminds us of that enormous crush we had on homegirl back in The Dirt of Luck days: she totally beat all these type people to the video-game indie-pop hustle with a little masterpiece called "Superball." New empeethree right here to get you stoked for her show tonight over at T.

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April 19, 2005

Hello, darkness
By webteam

Balls deep.

Hellacopter-itis: the condition that results when Scandinavian band is finally, after years of genius, in the right place at the right time, with huge American label support, and delivers the most boring album of its career. (See "Grande Rock", also "Scandinavian Leather.") Then, just when you've got done apologizing for them, they return to genius -- too late, of course, for any of your friends to believe you.

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April 18, 2005

Crash and Burn
By webteam

Guillotine a punk for rock n roll.

"This record makes our first record sound like our second record!" -- Bill Crash and Burn

True: having ditched the doom-metal/sludge-punk of Sick Again, they're back to the "Kill a Punk" days, and then some: immense, evil, brutal. The Guns N Roses album Black Flag never made?

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April 18, 2005

Decline of Western Civilization IV: The Roadsteamer Years
By webteam

In light of recent developments, we offer this recap of classic Road Steamage:

1. Dave Pino's Crank Yankers-style puppet show (all three open in Windows Media) that started it all.

2. "We don't need to practice. The Marvels . . . the Marvels need to practice."

3. When the strength of a thousand rhinos is almost, but not quite, enough . . .

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April 18, 2005

Boston beatdown: bravery edition
By webteam

Note to Rucker: if you're going to call your editor up all frantic, like, "30 dudes beat up the [insert trendy breakout band here] in front of [insert bar that everybody goes to here] last night," please let it turn out better than the bass player getting drunk and throwing a hissy.

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April 18, 2005

Boy bands cause cancer
By webteam
The Lyte Funky One deserved better than this. How come 98 Degrees ain't goin out like that?

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April 18, 2005

Converge
By webteam
"We just got back from playing 36 straight nights in Europe."
"With the exchange rate, that's like 93 straight nights."
"Right, and along with bubonic plague we also brought back a case of really bad humor."

Best Music Poll '04 metal/hardcore winners and '05 nominees killed it at Harpers Ferry on Saturday. Bannon's for-self rant ramping up to "The Saddest Day" (video link) had even us cynical rock-crit bastards feeling all posi and righteous and shit.

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