La Parca is happy to be part of the crew bringing The Foreign Exchange tour to Cambridge! Producer Nicolay and Phonte (of Little Brother) will be performing with an 8-piece live band and our homies DJs Knife & Evaready will be spinning throughout the night. It goes on downstairs at the Middle East Tuesday June 5 at 8 pm. This is an 18 + show. Advance tickets are now available for purchase here

This is going to be a really dope show and a great start to the Summer… Come say what’s up! First 3 people to say hello to me and mention La Parca (that I don’t know) get a free shirt. Serious!

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Once again it’s going down live in effect Saturday night. Boston’s longest running hip hop night Fresh Produce is back at the Good Life. This month your resident DJs Tommee and Knife are on the 1s & 2s alongside this month’s guest DJ Vajra coming straight off a win at the 2011 DMCs. All of the usual suspects will be in the house including your truly as well as Boston legend and man about town Uncle Big Kar. Get there early there will be a line.

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Our webstore has been updated. Check out our new T-Shirts, Crewneck Sweatshirts and Snapback Hats. Fair warning… Hats are going fast. We WILL have them tonight at our launch party.

Launch party particulars:

TONIGHT at Gallery 321.
321 Washington St, Union Sq, Somerville, MA
8pm to 12am.

Live music by:
White Pages (9pm)
Immigrants (10pm)
Porn Theatre Ushers (11pm)
DJ sets by Mister Jason and Farmer Ted.

Plenty of parking behind the venue!

The 86 bus stops across the street and connects in Brighton, Allston, Cambridge (Harvard Sq/Red Line) and Charlestown (Sullivan Sq/Orange Line).

Free beer courtesy of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

LET’S DO THIS!!!

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Ever heard of Iggy Pop? Yeah, exactly, that guy that played Nona’s father on the Adventures of Pete & Pete. OK… enough with that. Iggy is well known as the godfather of punk rock but before he was “Iggy”, the front man for the Stooges, he was James Osterberg, the drummer for the blues/garage band, the Iguanas. Were talking early 60s here. This 45 is Iggy’s first appearance on record. Pretty cool.

FUN FACT: James was actually nicknamed “Iggy” by his boss at a record shop. Iggy is short for iguana. Get it?

Released 1964 via Forte Recordings

You can buy the Iguanas collection LP here:
nortonrecords.com

Adventures of Pete & Pete-style Iggy:

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I knew that Looney Tunes was supposedly moving (to Allston Village?) so I can’t say that I was shocked to see an empty/dusty shop when walking down Boylston Street. If anything, my thoughts on the matter hover between neutrality and stern disinterest.

All I know for certain is that record shops have been steadily going out of business for about a decade now. The Metro Boston record mecca of yesteryear is nothing more than a memory at this point. I never thought I’d say this but… I’m starting to feel nostalgia for the 90s.

Shops that are actually still in business (as far as I know):

Planet Records, Harvard Sq, Cambridge
Armageddon Shop, Harvard Sq, Cambridge
Cheapo Records, Central Sq, Cambridge
In Your Ear Records, BU, Boston
In Your Ear Records, Harvard Sq, Cambridge
Nuggets, Kenmore Sq, Boston
Orpheus, South End, Boston
Skippy Whites, Egleston Square, Roxbury
Somerville Grooves, Union Sq, Somerville
Stereo Jacks, North Cambridge
Underground Hip Hop, South End, Boston
Weirdo Records, Central Sq, Cambridge

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Teenage Bottlerocket bassist, Miguel Chen says:

“Friends! We are beyond excited to announce our new full length Freak Out! The record comes out in July on Fat Wreck Chords and we can’t wait for everyone to hear it! These songs are some of our favorites we’ve ever done. We recorded it at the Blasting Room with our long time friend and engineer Andrew Berlin and we’re stoked on how everything turned out. It’s been over 10 years since Teenage Bottlerocket began and a lot of amazing things have happened since then. We are so grateful to everyone who has helped make our life so awesome and we hope you enjoy the record as much as we enjoyed making it!!”

The boys are embarking upon an extensive North American tour this summer. I can only find a few dates as of right now. The important thing is, the Massachusetts show has been announced! I’m assuming the huge gap between the Albuquerque and Cambridge shows will be announced very shortly.

Tour dates as of now:

6/21/12  Baltimore, MD
7/18/12  Ft. Collins, CO
7/20/12  Edmonton, AB Canada
7/21/12  Calgary, AB Canada
7/22/12  Vancouver, BC Canada
7/23/12  Seattle, WA
7/24/12  Portland, OR
7/25/12  San Francisco, CA
7/26/12  West Hollywood, CA
7/27/12  San Diego, CA
7/28/12  Scottsdale, AZ
7/29/12   Albuquerque, NM
8/21/12  Cambridge, MA

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Jeff the Brotherhood successfully combine a blasting Ramones-style force (GREAT starting point) with a  crunchy guitar tone not unlike 90s-era Weezer. Imagine loads of 8th note hi-hats and downstroke riffage married with spaced out stoner rock guitar solos. This is Jeff the Brotherhood. OK, how about this… Imagine the first Queens of the Stone Age record but with a massive bubblegum sensibility. Get it yet?

These guys are great and they’re playing @ TT the Bear’s on June 21st. Get hip!

Released 2011 via Infinity Cat Recordings

Buy “We Are The Champions” here:
http://infinitycat.com

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ATTN: Reggae Heads and/or Cassette Nerds.

On my weekly visit to In Your Ear Records, I discovered that they’ve just acquired a MASSIVE amount of reggae on cassette. Good stuff too!!! Everything from rocksteady to dub (didn’t see any dancehall). Everything was in really good condition and priced at 3-4 bux. Spread the word.

Remember… summertime = reggae.

In Your Ear
975 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA

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