Thank you TBP for dubbing our band Witch Baby one of the "Best New Bands of 2012"!…read more http://contests.thephoenix.com/50States/2012/Hawaii/ I especially love the fact that the writer picked up on our musical influences! I guess she is on the same page we are. We recently went into the studio to record a song for a Flux magazine compilation: Flux Hawaii Summer Mixtape 2012 (http://fluxhawaii.com/mixtape/). In the end, I guess it's one of those things where you just never know who will be listening to your music. In our case, The Boston Phoenix.

I wish this were an encomium, and if I'd written this 10 or 15 years ago it surely would've been…read more Then the Phoenix was at the top of its game, a robust alternative weekly with exceptional arts writing, vital listings for clubs and local cinemas, and essential investigative reporting nonpareil (everyone forgets that they lit the long fuse on the Catholic Church scandal in Boston that the Globe got to take all the credit for). These days its a moribund shell of its former self - actually, that might be too generous, since hardly any remaining indicators of its former self are evident aside from the name. Gone is any semblance of actual journalism, the arts sections has shriveled down to what are essentially blurbs and tweets, and the listing have all but vanished. I'm not sure if any of it is salvageable. I can tell you that, when I was exiled briefly to the suburbia in the late 90s, and wasn't able to pick up a free copy on a college campus, I would actually pay for this out at a local newsstand in the sticks. I think it was 2 dollars. Best 2 dollars I spent every week. Now that it is actually free (and has been free everywhere for some time), it's not even worth spending the time or calories to open the bin by the T stop and pull one out. Not even to use as accelerant for my charcoal chimney, which requires newspaper in the bottom to ignite it. Turns out even the ink they use to print the Phoenix these days is piss poor quality, not even fit to be burned. I'd put the Phoenix on the media death watch for 2012, but it's apparent that it's already died, and no one told it, and its animated corpse is just lurching around waiting for a headshot to put it down.

Edible Boston is the New England equivalent to Edible Wine Country (Marin/Sonoma/Napa) and Edible…read moreSan Francisco. Edible Boston, unsurprisingly, has a West Coast vibe for an East Coast publication. It's like running into a granola-munching Berkeley hippie in Braintree. Slightly bizarre, and you may think you are trippin'. Edible Boston does great profiles on local businesses, sustainable farming--I grabbed a copy at Tougas Family Farm in Northborough. How fitting, where you can pick Empire, Honeycrisp and Fuji apples, and enjoy apple cider doughnuts. Edible Boston gives a refreshingly different perspective on the urbanized East. Dig in!

Ditto..yes all reviewers!…read more Except that of course ..ahem .it's not really a magazine - it's a commercial leaflet for product and local service providers.....Ostensibly many an interesting editorial article indeed, until you look at the bylines and quickly realize that almost EVERY editorial submission is posted by: A: someone who owns an expensive restaurant B: someone who owns a food related business or service C: someone who uses the publication as a platform to buttress or support marketing for their own entreprise(s) So if the term "editorial" can be applied even loosely to the articles and general contents found therein - I must admit myself a new convert to the English language and have yet to be baptized to this new found ideal... Edible Boston appears to be fundamentally a published conduit for people to post articles and pictures exclusive to a few well placed people and/or those properly anointed who then are duly granted singular unfettered access to a correspondingly rarefied and well heeled audience that will and do in turn hire them...The publishers apparently, by the most opportune turn of happenstance, adore placing their product close to the cash registers of any Whole Foods; planted there in the most affluent of communities where customers might by chance then buy the goods magnanimously displayed therein and advertised in the back for their consideration. The pictures, although germane enough, are either unsharp, lackluster, uninspiring or a bit too cliched for most palettes. Take a careful look...and savor this with or without seasoning....There are no less than four professional photography schools in the Boston area with no doubt grads with personal enterprise, merit and real talent - but not to worry...Here in this magazine the same names almost apologetically appear again and again like a Groundhog's Day version of a Chicken noodle soup from the Greek deli that you remember -but this time without the chicken -the aftertaste permanently burnished into the menu of photo credits from month to month... Boston, the well known overpriced haven of exclusive tony schools for the spawn of privilege whose tuition price tags can typically exceed the price for a modest home - can and should expect better for that which passes as a magazine.... This magazine is simply an advertisement vehicle for a few people allowed access who submit mainly in order to promote themselves and their services.....not really a food magazine...Even if the emperor has no clothes one need not resort to joining a nudist colony...