Do you support your local scene?

[Sirion]

Not unless it is something I know is good. The scene here is saturated with crappy pop/rock and primitive black metal bands.

[The Golden Boy]

There used to be a really kickass original rock scene in town. The "good" to "bad" band ratio was really favorable. There were all these great shows- there were just enough bars that had good shows and enough established "good" bands and new bands to make everything work. It just seemed that one day it started getting weird. The catty attitudes started appearing, and then people stopped going to the cheap import night. It was this thing were everybody from every band went to cheap import night at this bowling alley. Friendships were made and shows were set up on that Tuesday night-

There's still some cool bands, I haven't gotten out like I used to, but the "scene" in it's all inclusive sense isn't like it was "back in the day."

[Axl H]

Nope.

Its all indie, 60s rock and death metal here.

Either you are DM or Indie here, no inbetween and it sucks.

In general, the danish music scene sucks,

[ImmortalSix]

I support the Blacksburg / VT music scene like a mofo!

From being a guitar player and hanging out with music types, I've gotten to know damn near everyone in this small scene, but there are a lot of good bands, and the bands that aren't good have cool people.

hareek, now there's a guy that's good people AND has a good band

[Wattage]

Man it doesn't sound like there is a lot happening out there right now. Where are the hot local scenes these days?

It seems to me like Mass has some good things going, all the way through to Albany. We're just starting to get hooked up with some gigs there and it seems like a real good thing.

[Skarekrough]

It seems to me like Mass has some good things going, all the way through to Albany. We're just starting to get hooked up with some gigs there and it seems like a real good thing.

Boston and Massachusetts in general has a ton of bands. Along with that there are a good number of venues in the Greater Boston area to play. Some of the rooms are really quite good to great. Some of them are just kind of like the band version of tourist traps.

Inherently the problem is that there are so many bands and so few doing anything really notable. There's diversity, but it's all kind of mediocre and scattered. The influences come through really quickly and sometimes it's too easy to tell; you wished they'd taken a year to distill what they had before they'd recorded as they might have something decent.

When I was at my last job the Office Manager used to work as a writer for one of the big local Indie Music rags. She'd come in with stacks of CD's and when the boss was out she'd pop them in and give them a review. Being around the office I'd get to hear them at the same time.

We had alot of very positive discussions about bands. She was floored by my ability to hear something and name where it came from or what it was influenced by. She also claimed I was usually dead-on but rarely could she put it in her reviews. It did much for her cataloging system though.

Alot of it was decent. Rarely did I hear anything that I thought was really notable. It was mostly medicore stuff apeing modern bands with an older twist to it; The Killers meet Journey or Soul Coughing meet Yaz.

There's a slew of bands...but to me they rarely distinguished themselves past their influences and kept at it way too long for them to remain interesting.

The bands that I dug were Big Catholic Guilt and 6L6 and Clutch Grabwell. They're very different sounding bands but they had that something above and beyond their influences. I've seen more Grabwell shows than I care to admit. They should have made it a long time ago and it's a shame they haven't. BCG also had something. I'm convinced had they kept at it another five years or started five years later than they had they would of been the American version of Rammstein. But above this nothing makes me sadder than the fact that 6L6 never hit it big. This was a band that made a noise bigger than an atomic bomb, and did so night after night.

[Kac]

yup. I go see bands all the time. and promote shows on the air when I'm DJing.

Rock On ~ kac

[Wattage]

Boston and Massachusetts in general has a ton of bands. Along with that there are a good number of venues in the Greater Boston area to play. Some of the rooms are really quite good to great. Some of them are just kind of like the band version of tourist traps.

I don't know too many bands from the area yet but I am a big fan of Frank Morey and his band.

We'll be playing the Abbey in Somerville and Ralph's Diner in Worcester the end of June, I am looking forward to it, part of a string of 4 or 5 shows. Hopefully you can make a show and share a beer or 3.

[Skarekrough]

I don't know too many bands from the area yet but I am a big fan of Frank Morey and his band.

We'll be playing the Abbey in Somerville and Ralph's Diner in Worcester the end of June, I am looking forward to it, part of a string of 4 or 5 shows. Hopefully you can make a show and share a beer or 3.

What am I, an *******?

PM me the date for the Abbey gig. If I don't have anything life threatening I'm there.

[Beer$]

I have successfully killed emo and metalcore in my area...

80's all the way!!

[lpmarshall]

The music scene here has gone way down hill in recent years. Venues are closing every year, and there aren't many left. Most of the ones left have are mostly emo type bands, or super heavy metal bands.

[Beer$]

'scene' kids make me sick...

[Markk]

Not really. The musicians here suck and there's not much of a scene.

There's not really band-orientated club.

[Jonny R]

I support the local scene here in Manila...no cover charge, beer is about $0.70 a bottle...of course I do