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...RH 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...
...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...
...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...
...With people like Rojas and Sanneh in mind, Baron organized the first Record Hospital Fest in 2002 in part to create a greater connection with the Boston scene. (He also hoped to give RH a bigger name and “just wanted to see these bands play.”) Though Baron held the first RH Fest at Tufts, the Harvard campus has hosted it—and several other shows—since then. Thanks to Baron, influential Boston screamo band Orchid played their final show at The Harvard Advocate. So many people showed up that the band...
...Today, venues like The Advocate and The Democracy Center at 45 Mt. Auburn remain key sites for shows. But keeping Harvard involved in the scene has required a constant stream of new, enthusiastic students, which RH has been able to provide...