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Final Gasp Ready For Release Show, Outings With Acid Bath And Napalm Death As Multi-Faceted Sophomore Metal Aural Assault New Day Symptoms Arrives

New Day Symptoms, the newest effort from Boston’s Final Gasp is a clusterfuck of awesome. If you’ve heard singles “The Apparition”, “No Hand To Lead” or “Burials Of Birth” already then you know where we’re coming from on the “awesome” front, right? As for the “clusterfuck”, FG somehow have a [...]

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Singles! American Ocelot, “Dropped” & “Invisible Lines”

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The intro you’re about to read was started ahead of the 2.13 release. Life got in the way and that deadline for us passed but we liked it so much we decided to stick it in here to start regardless so bear with us and this slight blast [...]

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No Rest For The Wicked: Converge Celebrates 35 Years And Fiercest Record Yet With Love Is Not Enough

You may not know this about us but we don’t review anything we don’t dig in these pages. We tried that before and found we simply don’t enjoy dedicating an inordinate amount of time to slamming something we most likely won’t listen to beyond preparing a post. We also tend [...]

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Pulp Rawk: Fenway Punk-How a Boston Indie Label Scored Big on Baseball’s Greatest Rivalry by Chris Wrenn

Fenway Punk-How a Boston Indie Label Scored Big on Baseball’s Greatest Rivalry by Bridge Nine Records/Sully’s Brand founder Chris Wrenn has a little bit of everything. Chronicling the rise of Bridge Nine Records (And later, Sully’s Brand), which was intrinsically intertwined with one of the greatest rivalries ever in professional [...]

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Adam Sherman Band Fuse Elements Of Blues, Soul, Alternative And More On Solid Sorrows and Smiles

Anyone sick of the “We’ve said this before but we’re saying it again…” kind of intro? Well, it’s happening again so if it’s not your bag then kindly skip to the next blurb and we’ll meet you there in a sec? Some of you still here? Great! Anywho, we love [...]

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bad//verb Get Especially Rambunctious, A Little Experimental On Violent Year

Violent Year, the latest release from bad//verb, just might be our favorite release from the Boston Gen X Cringe trio yet! And here’s why…

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