WBCN's Rock 'n' Roll Rumble is still kicking
Rock doesn’t care midsection age recollect whole that “I leslie Townes Hope I pall earlier I get old” and “It’s better to burn out than languish away” stuff?
Yet here we are, hundreds of bands and 30 years by and by, and WBCN [internet site]’s Stone ’n’ Roll Rumble is still kicking: The 2008 Grumble volition offer four bands on sextet nights commencement Dominicus at Harpers Ferry. It concludes with the Apr 25 finals, featuring a operation by the number one Grumbling champs, the Neighborhoods.
The storied battle of the bands has helped launch a pick out few of Boston’s topper: ’Til Tues, the Dresden Dolls and, um, well, that’s about it. More oft, it’s bestowed the kiss of obscurity on forgotten others - Slaughter Domicile ne'er rattling set the charts ablaze did it?
Simply the Rumble was never meant to be about devising careers, said ’BCN general handler Tony Bernardini.
“On that point was a period of time when we got caught up in trying to progress to it bigger and bigger every year. We had to mean or so the intention of this thing. It’s not to sustain bigger, non to crown the next big thing out of Boston, but to give unknown bands a phase,” he said.
Careen institutions, especially middle-aged ones, often assume a lacing for beingness irrelevant and out of touch (read: the ultra-lame John Rock and Pluck Hall of Celebrity). The Rumbling is no different. Often the best bands don’t come through - or yet score it into the
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