Posts Tagged ‘COVID-19’
Local Music Venues: Their History and Future
Boston is home to many historic and influential music venues, but these sites are struggling to keep their doors open with the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog post, I will be addressing how the surviving venues and Boston’s music scene have coped with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and what…
Read MoreJazz’s Battle With Covid-19 in Boston
Boston has a rich history of Jazz all the way back to the Jazz era in the early 1900’s. Many people have been affected by Jazz over the years as it has played a role in shaping Boston. The past year has been very hard on the Boston jazz community and all musical communities around…
Read MoreThe Mermaid’s Tavern: Song Sessions in Virtual Spaces
During the summer of 2020, I searched for a form of escapism to detach myself from my reality that currently consisted of masks, isolation, and a fear of disease. While scrolling through Spotify, I came across a playlist consisting of sea chanteys. I was no longer in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, but a pirate…
Read MoreThe Virtual World of Local Boston Hip-Hop Artists
Having grown up in Atlanta, Georgia, there were many cultural differences I became aware of when moving to Boston my freshman year of college. One that I was particularly aware of was the music culture. Although Boston is a town filled with students, many of which study music, there were some obvious contrasts in which…
Read MoreBoston’s Female and Non-Binary Singer-Songwriters During COVID-19
The moment this project was introduced, I knew I wanted to study the community of female and non-binary singer-songwriters of Boston. A community that I had come to learn was rich in history and wide in range, after only six months of personally living in Boston. I’m from Asbury Park, NJ, which will quickly ring…
Read MoreDIY and COVID-19: The Impact of the Pandemic on Boston’s Underground Music Scene
Intro Since I first started attending university in Boston, I’ve been interested in the local music scene and how I could delve into it. I initially knew nothing about the local bands and shows, and had no idea what the DIY scene was until I started talking with people in student groups, finding like-minded people…
Read MoreStraight Edge and the Internet
H2: Header In the 1970s, punk-rock music emerged in rejection of the clean-cut ideals put forth in mainstream rock and roll. Bands including The Sex Pistols, The Ramones and The Clash challenged the superficial aspects of 70s popular rock music, stripping back the overproduced, commercialized nature of mainstream rock and showcasing their raw, unpolished and…
Read MoreThe Home Studio Experience and the COVID Pandemic
Accessibility to recording equipment and spaces is probably the most vital aspect of completing recording projects. In a time where we must socially distance ourselves from one another, musicians, engineers, and producers worldwide have lost access to studio spaces, equipment such as microphones and interfaces, and software like certain digital audio workstations. Those without these…
Read MoreDeath of a (Music) Salesman
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Read MoreA Tale of Two Venues: Great Scott, ONCE Somerville, and Dealing with a Pandemic
All across the city, various shops, venues, and spaces remain closed, as if waiting for people to come back to them. They are desolate, empty, devoid of life. Across the Charles River on the once busy Highland Avenue in Somerville, ONCE Somerville is eerily quiet on this particular November evening. The overhead cover blows slightly…
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