hen he’s not collaborating with other rap stars like Rick Ross, A$AP Ferg, and Ludacris, Mississippi’s Big K.R.I.T. is playing free shows. Or at least such was the case on Wednesday night at The Sinclair in Harvard Square, Cambridge—a free...
It’s time for our second free, downloadable mixtape featuring songs exclusively from some of our past Local Spotlight acts! We’ve been pining through hundreds of Boston artists and are excited to release a mix of their work. Think Boston’s music is too punk-heavy or songwriter-driven? With the hypnotically...
hich is it, that Boston has no hip-hop scene, or that it hasn’t been discovered yet? The answer depends on who you ask, of course. While it’s true that as a genre hip-hop is less in Boston’s spotlight than rock or...
A record shop isn’t a luxury store. It doesn’t need to be extravagant or offer much in the way of decor or amenities—all you need are stacks of records and music in the background. There is a difference, however, between...
In an increasingly interconnected world where the Internet has made physical distance an afterthought, there’s a curious dearth of ways for musicians to make meaningful connections. Musicians are often relegated to doing member or gear searches through services like Craigslist,...
Welcome back to the column! We’ll be posting weekly with a consolidated report on the need-to-know music happenings around Boston, and we’ve wrapped up the week just in time for the unwrapping of delicious leftover Halloween candy. Lake Street Dive...
here came a point when they became too much to handle, and he had to reel them in. That is, the number of stage names for Boston rapper and spoken word artist Bakari J.B. (pronounced buh-car-ee). At first, he was Enemy...
It’s a tough time to be a record store. First, cool but corporate Urban Outfitters declared itself the largest retailer of vinyl in the United States. Then Billboard discovered that Urban’s claims were fallacious, revealing even worse news: Amazon is...
ypically, you don’t want something that is eight feet tall in front of you at a concert: a post, a pillar, a clown on stilts. On Saturday night, however, you were lucky if you did. (Not a clown on stilts—don’t...
Viva La Hop band name \ˈviːvə ˈlɑ hɑːp\ 1Long live hip-hop 2Long live the hop In the era of the rap star and the DJ, Boston hip-hop 10-piece Viva La Hop kicks it old school with a dual-MC platform, a...
