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RH’s focus on and involvement with local bands is due in large part to the importance of community in the DIY scene, which RH attempts to foster and preserve. “We try to pay special attention to the local scene, both in what we play on air and in putting together RH Fest, just because what constitutes a DIY community is so much based on local scenes,” Humphreville says...
...While DST tours outside of both the region and the nation, the band continues to play a mix of local clubs like the Middle East and local basements, though they say they have more fun at the basement shows, where the tight-knit DIY community is really felt...
Saying that the DIY community is centered on hardcore music can be misleading, because it masks the diversity of bands within the scene. Asked to describe his band’s sound, Bogan calls it “post-hardcore art-rock jazz indie.” “I think it’s best keeping it to punk,” St. Claire interjects. “It’s punk. It’s loud...
...That diversity was on full display two weeks ago at this year’s RH Fest. Around 100 people circulated through on each of the nights, the first of which was held at The Advocate, the second at Holden Chapel in Harvard Yard. Appropriately for a DIY show, the only monetary compensation the bands received was to cover the costs of transportation...
...same breath I found out about The Clash I found out about [iconic D.C. hardcore band] Minor Threat,” he says. Augenstern threw himself into Boston’s more hard-edged hardcore scene but was eventually driven away by the violence. Finding RH and the DIY scene it supports has brought him back. “There is definitely a different sense of urgency, of passion, of spirit to it that isn’t there in this fake hardcore, this tough guy stuff,” he says...