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Local Mix: Boston’s Best Electronic Music

Thanasi Kastritis
hile certainly no Miami or New York, Boston’s electronic music scene should not be dismissed as nonexistent, unimportant, or weak. Boasting a myriad of talented producers, Boston deserves recognition as a hot spot for electronic music on the East coast. Below is...
Rapper Big KRIT

Interview: Big K.R.I.T.

Jon Simmons
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...

Free Download: Local Spotlight Mixtape Vol. 2

Nitesh Gupta
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...

Boston’s Best Hip-Hop Songs: An Introduction

Jon Simmons
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...

The Record Hunter: Nuggets Records

Noah Habeeb
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...

Weekly Wrap-up: 11/1/2014

Samantha Fleishman
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...
Rapper Bakari JB

Local Spotlight: Bakari J.B.

Jon Simmons
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...

The Record Hunter: Weirdo Records

Noah Habeeb
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...
Eight Feet Tall

Follow-the-Leader Funk: Eight Feet Tall

Jon Simmons
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...