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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...
...began in the late 70s as Plastic Passions, playing a mix of music that included reggae and new wave, though its focus soon shifted to indie rock. In the early 90s, as bands like Nirvana and record labels like Matador garnered mainstream attention for college rock, RH, which had been loosely linked to the local Boston scene in the past, began to emphasize...
...kind of reacted against that, that the music had gotten too commercial and lost its punk roots,” says Peter F. Rojas ’97, now an internet entrepreneur who helped create both Engadget and the independent-minded RCRD LBL. “We were more interested in bands that weren’t trying to cross over from college rock...
...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...
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...