Word: diy
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...Closed just a few years ago after some particularly rowdy hardcore punk shows, the Elks Lodge was open again on this night for a different assortment of DIY (do-it-yourself) music, including the frenzied punk rock of Foreign Objects and Libyans—whose singers pinballed back and forth among the assembled audience—and the heavy sludge of California’s In Disgust, who set the entire building vibrating and part of the crowd slam dancing...
...Boston is kind of unapologetically hardcore,” says John Bogan of the band Daniel Striped Tiger. And though Boston hardcore is sometimes associated with violence and insularity, there is also a more diverse and welcoming community of DIY punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore bands like Bogan’s that has long been open to a small group of Harvard students like Humphreville. These punk rockers, despite occupying a peripheral position on campus, have been central players in the scene...
...Harvard than as a Harvard student who goes to Boston,” says Christa M. Hartsock ’10, the president of WHRB and host of “Dischord and Dynne,” a Friday night radio show that features live performances by local DIY bands and provides a free recording for them. Since the inception of Record Hospital—WHRB’s underground rock department—many of its other DJs have felt the same...
...Along with New Yorker staff writer Kelefa T. Sanneh ’97, Rojas self-consciously pulled RH in a DIY direction. “We wouldn’t play anything from a major label,” he says. “We wouldn’t play anything with a barcode with...
...comp plays a large role in nurturing and maintaining Harvard’s small group of DIY devotees. Largely based around punk and hardcore music, the intensive comp process involves weekly lectures about different genres as well as a weekly listening assignment of about 10 albums. “You learn about this from a very historical perspective,” former RH director Baris C. Ercal ’10 says. “It’s all contextualized. Everything is just put together in a way that’s very interesting, and I feel like...