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Photos: Women of Boston hardcore -- Curmudgeon + Get Laid + Honeysuck + The Inhalers

Great Massachusetts punk rockers -- who just so happen to be women

By ALI DONOHUE | September 15, 2011

Curmudgeon, a hardcore powerviolence trio, playing an Allston basement show.

READ: "Punk and hardcore's latest heroes: Massachusetts women" by Liz Pelly

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Interview: Alice Bag of Stay at Home Bomb
Alice Bag (nee Armendariz), who shone bright in the Los Angeles punk scene of the late-1970s, will be in town Saturday to read from her book Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage and to play a few tunes at 7 pm at Rochambeau Library.
Occult Detective Club | Crimes
It's tough coming up with anything new in punk rock that isn't going to sound as if you were trying too hard to reinvent something that's as basic as it gets
Dinosaur Jr. at Port City Music Hall, June 20
Henry Rollins is the George Thorogood of punk rock. He has the appearance and credentials of someone bad to the bone, but in practice, he's pure establishment.
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Interview: Alice Bag of Stay at Home Bomb
Alice Bag (nee Armendariz), who shone bright in the Los Angeles punk scene of the late-1970s, will be in town Saturday to read from her book Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage and to play a few tunes at 7 pm at Rochambeau Library.
Occult Detective Club | Crimes
It's tough coming up with anything new in punk rock that isn't going to sound as if you were trying too hard to reinvent something that's as basic as it gets
Dinosaur Jr. at Port City Music Hall, June 20
Henry Rollins is the George Thorogood of punk rock. He has the appearance and credentials of someone bad to the bone, but in practice, he's pure establishment.
Review: Perishable's Hedwig and the Angry Inch
If Alexander Platt's take on Hedwig and the Angry Inch were packed with any more energy, the bomb squad would have to be called out every night.
75orLess Records and the Apartment's jam-packed celebration
Be sure to get to the Apartment ("where Jake's usedta be") on Saturday, where the mighty 75orLess Records will set up shop for a dual-anniversary bash.
Why there won't ever be another 'Big Four' - and why that's a good thing
In April, thrash metal's self-billed "Big Four" — Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax — played a one-off American show in the middle of the desert in Indio, California.
Punk and hardcore's latest heroes: Massachusetts women
In the boys' club world of contemporary music, gender relationships are complex even in DIY punk — the strain of rock that historically prides itself most on egalitarianism.
The Big Hurt: ICP take on magnets
Would that I could simply post the entire lyric to “Miracles” by INSANE CLOWN POSSE and call it an article.
Review: Public Image Ltd. at Royale
Terrifying, ridiculous, glorious
Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn revives a classic
At the end of 1983, I was writing for Boston Rock magazine, and in one issue, we predicted the defining releases of the year to come.
Dr. Dog is the drug
On their current trek, promoting their playful and raw seventh album, Be the Void (Anti-), Dr. Dog have reached headliner status, playing the biggest, most tightly packed rooms of their career.
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