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REPORTING LIVE: SXSW 2013 VIA @DJAHSWELTA: INTRODUCTION
I leave for Southby Southwest today – for a guy like me, the ultimate Summer Camp for artists of all persuasions. I haven’t even gotten to Austin yet, but the delirium and sensory overload feels like...
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REPORTING LIVE: SXSW 2013 VIA @BILKWON: DAY IV
I’m counting the minutes waiting for the party master Andrew W.K. He finally takes the stage, wearing his signature white shirt and jeans. The crowd erupts and everyone is chanting, “Party! Party!...
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REPORTING LIVE: SXSW 2013 VIA @BILKWON DAY V
“…I find myself in front of a parade of people, armed with boomboxes tuned into the same FM station. A man with a glowing trident leads the charge as they make their way down the spiral ramp off the...
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REPORTING LIVE: SXSW 2013 VIA @BILKWON: EPILOGUE
I also wonder how many years of my life this trip has taken. I’m not worried or anxious or concerned about that last wonder, whatever the answer may be. It was worth it. . . . East 6th Street...
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REPORTING LIVE: NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FESTIVAL: PRE-PARTY
Photo: Abiotic Amongst all this chaos and anger, somehow I’ve found peace and I see harmony, something that most of the outside world can’t see or hear in this kind of music. The adrenaline is already...
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REPORTING LIVE: NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FESTIVAL: DAY 1
Already I’m off to a rough start. I’ve been up all morning with my eyes glued to the TV in my Allston apartment watching reports that there is a 19-year-old terrorist on the loose somewhere in the...
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REPORTING LIVE: NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FESTIVAL: DAY 2
The Dillinger Escape Plan (pictured) threw down on one of the liveliest, rowdiest, and most intense live shows I’ve ever seen. That night, I made an uncompromising decision to come out of crowd surfing...
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REPORTING LIVE: NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FESTIVAL: DAY 3
Yes little one, you too can get rocked in the pit. “Sausage or bacon?” “Sausage … wait no.” What did I say? “You’re lyin’ to me..” I’m not awake yet and having an awfully hard time ordering breakfast...
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DEAR READER: TOGETHER 2013: MORE THAN JUST A MUSIC FESTIVAL
Together Festival is more than just a music fest to me. I have been to my share of music festivals, but every year, this festival changes my life. Thinking about how one week from today I’ll be in the...
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REPORTING LIVE: CANNIBAL CORPSE + NAPALM DEATH @ ROYALE
The pit is an unforgiving master and you must come prepared to respect its unmerciful laws. It’s 9 a.m. when I wake up at the New Eastern Inn motel off some highway in strip mall-infested, corporate...
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DEAR READER: C+ KIDS FOREVER
Photo of Kris Jenson by this week’s cover artist, the lovely and talented Rachel Tine. If we were to assign letter grades to our film reviews (though as a proud C+ success story, I’ll never allow it),...
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DEAR READER: @HAVEYOUMETTER’S GOODBYE
The rumors are true: I’m leaving the Dig to start my own social media company. The hardest part will be cleaning out my desk … I say “will be” because I’m going to wait till the last possible second to...
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