This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). A night of four girl-fronted bands that are all challenging the archetype of what it means to be a “girl-fronted band,” these ladies are artists with vision. Should be a dazzling … Read More
This article originally appears on Boston Band Crush ). Band Crusher Mike, our correspondent on the spot, is running around Austin like a madman interviewing as many Boston bands as possible. First up, Televandals!
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Have Nots!2009 Rumble Questions: Are you excited to be participating in the 31st WBCN Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble? Totally. The 31st rumble is gonna be off the hook. It’s gonna make … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Berklee is hosting a big industry conference next weekend. They have a lot of super interesting panels. As much as we think it’s counter to our “creativity” we all could use … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Sarah RabDAU and Self Employed Assassins! Are you excited to be participating in the 31st WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble? Yes, it’s very nice to be asked Are you afraid of … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Bone Gunn, an experimental folk rock group, is shooting their music video (for their song, “flies” which is on their myspace to listen to) at their next show. Get in free … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Thick as Thieves: Are you excited to be participating in the 31st WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble? The Rumble is such a fixture in the Boston music scene and there is … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Arms and Sleepers SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing?March 20th – Parish Downstairs (7PM) 2. How did you get your SXSW gig?Our booking agent submitted an application for us … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Band Crushers were at the MidEast Up last Friday the 13th for a rocking night of rock, dance punk, punk, and new wave.A much larger set of photos at: The Jeddo … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Cute indie-popsters One Happy Island answered our questions with their trademark wittiness: 1. Where/when are you playing? Brad: We’re playing some house parties and unofficial stuff. The most prominent gig is at … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Destruct-A-Thon! Are you excited to be participating in the 31st WBCN Rock ‘n’Roll Rumble? Yes.Are you afraid of the Rumble curse? No.Do you plan on doing anything special or different for … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The boys who brought anthem rock back, Bang Camaro tell us why they’re going to Austin. SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing? March 20thLovejoy’s – 8th Impression Showcase4:00 pm … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The very sweet, Static of the Gods: SXSW Interview: 1. Where/When are you playing (showcase, venue, official/unofficial, etc)? Ben & Jen will be playing an acoustic showcase at the BANDS, BURGERS, … Read More
Tomorrow morning, we head out over the horizon to rock the people of far-away lands… We hope to blog regularly and post video, pictures, and other nonsense…so please stay tuned here for the next week or so. I will also … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The Vital Might is so-far the first band I’ve talked to that is playing the SXSW sister festival, Red Gorilla. 1. Where/When are you playing? –The Vintage Lounge, Austin, TX– Our … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Gravehaven Are you excited to be participating in the 31st WBCN Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble? Of course! We’re honored to be a part of the whole thing. Are you afraid of … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Calumet-Hecla, fresh off a tour of Brazil are making the trip down to SXSW, here’s what they had to say about it: SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing? We … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The Boston Phoenix annual Reader’s Poll is up, where you can vote on your favorite venues (rock, hip hop, dance, folk, jazz) restaurants, theaters, services, and maybe most importantly favorite Rock … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). SXSW with Sarah Borges! Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing? Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Continental Club8PM1315 S CongressAustin TX Thursday, March 19th, 2009Antone’sTribute to Doug Sahm – 8pm213 W. 5thAustin TX … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Tonight, as we write, Anngelle Wood is announcing the set days for the competitors in the Rumble on Boston Emissions on WBCN 104.1. We are live blogging ’til midnight with this … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Blues-folk songstress Eilen Jewell is headed down to Austin before heading over to Europe, and took a few moments to answer our probing questions. SXSW Interview Questions:1. Where/When are you playing?On Wednesday, … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Holden and Jeremy of Pretty & Nice give me the scoop on SXSW and scary raver dudes! 1. Where/When are you playing? 03/21/2009 05:00 PM – SXSW Austin Town Hall show … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The Minus Scale talk to us about the 2009 Rumble: Are you excited to be participating in the 31st WBCN Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble? –We are very excited to be … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Graveyard BBQ are next up to answer by SXSW questions. I hope they are bringing the BBQ Girls down to Austin with ’em! SXSW Interview Questions:1. Where/When are you playing? We’re … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The venerable punk band, Street Dogs took a minute off from the road to answer our SXSW Interview Questions:1. Where/When are you playing?We’re playing an official showcase at Emos Annex at … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). GOZU will be bringing the metal to the Rumble:2009 Rumble Questions Are you excited to be participating in the 31st WBCN Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble? We were under the impression it … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The Kominas! SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing? We’re part of the Heavy Metal Islam showcase on Friday, March 20th at Club 115…It’s basically an “all-star hour” (starting at … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Mike from Junius gave us the skinny on their SXSW experience – and told us about their amazing line-up at the Radar Recordings Showcase. SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The New Alibis are playing tonight at MidEast Up with Jeddo Stars, Televandals, and The New Collisions – don’t miss it! Are you excited to be participating in the 31st WBCN … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The lovely Erin Harpe of Lovewhip kindly told us all about her SXSW experience future and past! SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing? I am playing all unofficial showcases. … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Pariah Beat are headed to Austin to bring their gypsy-punk to the people. You can catch them tonight (3/12) at The Alchemist in Jamaica Plain it’s a free show (starts at 10). … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Day one of our WBCN Rumble coverage is here. We’ll be interviewing all 24 bands participating this year, and posting one interview each day leading up to April 5th (the first … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Roadsaw answers the tough questions. SXSW Interview Questions:1. Where/When are you playing? We are playing at room 710 on red river. the day is march 20, 2009 at 12:00 am. 2. … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). KID:NAP:KIN give the answers to the questions. SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing?Official Party for Berklee March 20th at 5:30pm at Friends 208 E 6th Stand Sidehatch Entertainment Showcase … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Mean Creek have kindly taken the time to answer our SXSW questions. They’ve been busy lately finishing up a new album, check out their youtube account for some cool in-the-studio making-of … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Annie Lynch answers the tough questions: SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing ? We will be playing on March 19th at Fado at 8pm and on March 20th at … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Friday the 13th is a night of big rock at Mid East Up: New wave popsters Jeddo Stars start the night, then the stylings of electro dance punkers Televandals, followed by … Read More
This article originally appears on Boston Band Crush ). This Tuesday (10th) and the second Tuesday of every month is Rock ‘n’ Roll Social night at The Model Cafe in Allston. For the last five years, the social has provided … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The Hollow Sound are next to wrap their collective heads around our questions: SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing? We are playing the Berklee Party on March 20th at … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). As announced on WBCN Boston Emissions tonight: Destruct-a-thon Dead Cats Dead Rats Apple Betty Muy Cansado Anarchy Club Sarah Rabdau & The Self Employed Assassins Gravehaven Angeline Gozu The Motion Sick … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). All about the Rumble from Wikipedia: The WBCN Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble, begun in 1979, is a Greater Boston “battle of the bands” co-sponsored by WBCN-FM. Its predecessors were the Bicentennial … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Ma’ayan Castel is next to tell us what she expects from SXSW: SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing? I’ll be playing at the Berklee College of Music Annual Party … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Anngelle Wood recently took over the reins at WBCN as the host of Boston Emissions- their long running local radio program. Anngelle is finely tuned in with the local rock community … Read More
This article originally appears on Boston Band Crush ). You all know by now that Dead Confederate is my favorite current band. They were on WFNX yeseterday performing an acoustic version of the throttling sizzler “The Rat” Check it out … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Eksi Ekso give us a look at a band headed to SXSW for the first time. You can catch them tonight at Great Scott with Jupiter One, Fluttr Effect, and Ellis … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The Motion Sick give us their motivation for making the trip to Austin for SXSW. Give them a good send-off tonight (3.6.9) at Church of Boston – they are headlining a … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Today, we have Caspian giving us the dish on SXSW: SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing?Our official show is Sunday the 22nd at Red7 for the Radar Recordings Party … Read More
This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). I am very pleased that Melissa Ferrick has taken the time to answer our questions – SXSW Interview Questions: 1. Where/When are you playing? FRIDAY 3/20 4:35PM Berklee Party at Friends … Read More
This article originally appears on Boston Band Crush ). Here’s just a quick one as it’s all I’ve got the time for right now. We’ve already told you about two great shows happening this Friday at Church and TT’s. Well, … Read More
This article originally appears on Boston Band Crush ). Just about everyone in my age group can sing the theme song to Super Mario Bros. upon request. In fact, this particular ditty is so deeply embedded into our social consciousness … Read More