It’s the last weekend in April, and there’s plenty of rockin’ left to do. Not only will the Rumble be crowning a new champion, but BUFU Fest at the Cambridge Elk’s Lodge will showcase two days worth of new bands from Boston and beyond. More
Archive local losers
Most bands at South By Southwest have something to prove, blitzing through three twenty-minute sets a day, in between breakfast tacos, in order to get their music into the ears of a bunch of people who’d never heard of them before. Others park the band van somewhere south of the river, get plastered on Shiner Bock and try not to wind up in a headlock from the burly ex-biker bouncer at the Parish or Swan Dive so that they can watch their former touring buddies smash their guitars to pieces. More