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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...
...that dedication to local punk music—most of Rojas’s friends, he says, came from Boston, not Harvard—had begun to fade by the time Zachary I. Baron ’04-’05 arrived at RH, which he says was then in “a wussier phase.” “It was kind of a nerdy, stand-offish, hostile group that kind of looked down at other people,” says Baron, now an editor at the Village Voice. For him, that group represented...
...Though students like Damon and Ercal got involved in local scenes in high school, many RH compers arrive with a more general interest in indie rock and punk. For them, the comp process is an invaluable learning tool. “If you don’t really have a context for it, you might find it abrasive or you might not understand where it’s coming from, why it might be important in the genre,” Humphreville says. “But I think the way the comp process works, you build up to that...
...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...
...notorious DVD “Boston Beatdown,” which focused on a different hardcore scene that many on RH deride as “bro-core.” RH comper Jacob N. Augenstern ’10 spent the set moshing with and leaping on a local punk rocker, but afterwards, the two patted each other on the back and introduced themselves. “It’s not necessarily overtly violent in nature, even though it’s this really aggressive music,” Augenstern says...