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August 31, 2005

your broken social scene: now fixed
By webteam

LISTEN: Hail Social, "Hands Are Tied" (mp3)

You’ve probably hit your quota for trendy indie-dance bands masquerading as blue-collar hard-rock degenerates, but HAIL SOCIAL just might make our cut, by virtue of being one of the most completely shameless bands to hit our desk since Death from Above 1979.

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August 30, 2005

Tuesday ticket alert
By Carly Carioli

Ashlee "Fuck You SNL This Time I'm Doing Oprah" Simpson
With Barefoot
At Avalon
Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 7:00 pm
Tickets are $30.00
Tickets go on-sale Friday, September 2, 2005 at 10:00 am

WATCH: Ashlee Simpson, "I Didn't Steal Your Boyfriend" (barefoot @ Cypress Gardens; crappy audience video plays in QuickTime)

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August 30, 2005

Shitbag rockers (and the girls who love them)
By webteam

Apparently the THIEVES were just too damn American-sounding to make a go of it in their home town of Oxford - the one in England, not Mississippi. So they resettled in California, hooked up with a shitkicking sleaze-rock label, and recorded a Stooged-out album - Tales from the White Line - that's due in early October.

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August 30, 2005

Best of the blogs
By webteam

1. New "Circuits" columnist David Day, whom some of you may know from his other gigs around town, just returned from hanging with the Kompakt krauts in Koln (um, speaking of which, anyone know how you get a umlaut up in this bitch?), and he brought back pictures and mp3s.

2. New Orleans, What's On Your iPod?

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August 30, 2005

On a Mission
By webteam

Mission Rockland and Rock Vegas repping that thugged-out Boston hardcore thing real big right now. Especially that dude with the Paul Wall grill and the neck-skull-tattoo-so-trill. Triple-threat label/store/skate-team game: focused.

LISTEN: Colin of Arabia, "Casual Casualty" (mp3)

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August 29, 2005

Mad Mad Mad World
By webteam

Harvard educator, dancehall scholar, blogger, and DJ Wayne Marshall, a/k/a WAYNE AND WAX, drops into the weekly "Beat Research" night at Enormous Room to spin a bit of history: his DJ set will trace a single pattern, the "Mad Mad" riddim, from its first appearance - Alton Ellis's 1967 Studio One-produced "Mad Mad Mad" - through more than three decades of reggae, dancehall, hip-hop, and reggaeton offshoots.

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August 27, 2005

The Charms: Two Timin'
By webteam

Sugar, would you like some cream?

COFFEE CHARMS I: The above picture of frontsiren Ellie Vee comes from the Charms' appearance at their pal Little Steven's garage-rock festival last year alongside the Lyres, the New Yawk Dollz, the Stooges and whatnot . . . sponsored, you may recall, by Dunkin' Donuts

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August 27, 2005

The Fresh Prince of Metalcore
By webteam

LISTEN: Bury Your Dead, "Legend" (mp3, via cnet)

We suppose now we have to give you the local angle.

Almost immediately after the Ozzfest-eggs-Iron Maiden story broke last week, dudes on message boards started fingering the Boston-via-NH hardcore band Bury Your Dead as being among the culprits who were rallied from the mess tent to do the dirty deed.

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August 26, 2005

Metal beef
By webteam

Not sure what's funnier about this: the part where Sharon calls herself the "real Iron Maiden," or the part where you realize Iron Maiden's manager's actual name is "Rod Smallwood." Holy crap: and we thought "On the Download" was a cruel thing for a momma to put on a birth certificate. In any case, this is what we miss about The Osbournes: the parts when Sharon gets all Suge Knight on motherfuckers.

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August 25, 2005

Lady K
By webteam

LISTEN: The Faux, "War, Pestilence, Famine" (mp3, via Honeypump)

A magnetic presence on Boston's art and music scene before her death last year at age 29, Kirsten Malone exuded as much energy in her visual art as she did on stage with the Faux. "Kirsten A. Malone: Retrospective," a three-day exhibit, collects her photography, video, sculpture, and performance art, including "Love Résumé Project," in which she explored on-line matchmaking and the universal search for love by posting a hysterically business-like accounting of her own dating history.

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August 25, 2005

And one more fucking thing . . .
By webteam

1. Just when you'd got really sick of dudes playing "1 Thing" and "Pull up the People" at parties, acting like they're the man who invented fire and whatnot, some asshole decides to "mash" them "up" . . . .

Oh, hell, who're we kidding: this is really fun. Plus, if you play it at the beach you don't even need fireworks: just watch hipsters' faces pop clean off.

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August 25, 2005

Cave In media player, listening party news
By webteam

If you look to the right, you'll find that exclusive track from the forthcoming Cave In album.

To hear the rest of the album, check out the brand-new Perfect Pitch Black media player. (For the record: there was no awesome-looking dedicated album page when they were on RCA. Hydraheadvicemoneysoreal!)

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August 24, 2005

Someone's gonna get his feelings hurt
By webteam

SAGE FRANCIS
October 6
The Roxy, Boston
617.931.2000

THE PERCEPTIONISTS & LYRICS BORN
October 6
The Paradise, Boston
617.562.8800

We've heard these guys hated each other to begin with. But this is just stupid booking. Somebody -- two somebodies, maybe, who don't want to lose their shirts -- need to quash this and unite the bill, even if they can't unite the parties involved. If anyone wants to set up a summit, shout at us: onthedownloadatphxdotcom.

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August 24, 2005

We buried indie rock years ago
By webteam

Dancing on indie rock's grave: Amsterdam's Zea.

LISTEN: Zea, "We Buried Indie Rock Years Ago" (mp3, via Zea).
LISTEN: Fiery Furnaces, "Single Again" (mp3, via Insound)

1. No idea how we missed these when they came out in 2003 and 2004, respectively, but we came across them again thanks to Tommie Sunshine's "Lobotomy Eyes Rock N Roll" mixtape, just serviced to press types.

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August 23, 2005

Show me your metal face
By webteam

1. The good news: the above gentlemen are playing a free show at ~~Avalon~~ Axis next month. The bad news: it's one of those contest-winner-only deals. Click for details on a bunch of Half.com's back-to-school gigs in Boston, September 9+ 10: Dashboard Confessional + Tegan & Sara, DangerDoom + RJD2, Phantom Planet + Damone, and more

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