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With a hectic tour schedule on the horizon and the Nov. 6 release of their latest album, Gut the Van, a live compilation of many popular Dispatch songs, Braddigon, Chetro and Repete are not looking to slow down any time soon. Armed with a growing fan base and the word-of-mouth popularity that landed them an opportunity to play the FleetBoston Pavilion last June, Dispatch are an up-and-coming phenomenon with enough pull to get students all too concerned with grades to stay out way past their bedtimes. Longtime Dispatch fan Kerry M. Houlihan...
...boys from Dispatch are no strangers to the Boston music scene. After getting their start at Vermont?...
...local venues like the Middle East and Avalon. “We started out playing in these tiny little rooms in Brookline,” said Repete, “and it’s great because the fans in places like that are so receptive.” Dispatch has gained a local following on many college campuses and regional bars, a start many liken to that of the Dave Matthews Band...
...early days, Dispatch had to do it all themselves—drive from venue to venue in their trusty used van, “Wimpy,” and set up their own audio equipment in hopes that the shows in the Wetlands or the small local bars would grow into something bigger. As is usually the case with underground talent, the local fanbase began to grow strong and devout. “Sometimes before a show people will come up to us and tell us that they drove from Pennsylvania to see us. That kind of thing first started...
...little band would have been without a leg to stand on if not for the explosion of Internet music trading that reached a feverishly high pitch only a few months ago. With all of the hullabaloo over copyright laws and getting the music into the hands of the people, Dispatch stands outside of the whole corporate fight to stop Internet trading. As an unsigned band that has yet to positively acknowledge the offers from both Epic and Dreamworks, Dispatch “can’t not be cool with that [Internet trading] because of the way Napster?...