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The "World Series of Boston Rock" is upon us.
The 2017 Rock And Roll Rumble kicks off four weeks from tonight at ONCE Ballroom in Somerville, and it will feature 24 bands from New England vying for a crown currently held by '16 champs Worshipper. This evening (Sunday, March 5), longtime organizer Anngelle Wood is announcing the 24 participating bands, one by one, live on 100.7 WZLX's Boston Emissions.
"It feels so good to be able to get this off my chest," says Wood at the start of her show. "It's gonna be a very very good time."
Preview all the bands, as they are announced, below. We'll update this post throughout the Boston Emissions broadcast.
In the meantime, here’s some pertinent info to get everyone in the mood: The Rumble preliminary week runs Sunday, April 2 to Saturday, April 8, the semi-finals are April 14 and 15, and the grand finale goes down on Friday, April 21. Individual nightly lineups and groupings will be unveiled next weekend. Rumble "Full Boat" passes, good for all nine nights, are priced at $75 and on sale now, and the Rumble "Six Pack," which gets you into all preliminary nights, goes on sale tomorrow morning. Other Rumble info can be found at the Rumble's new homepage via ONCE.
All bios below pulled from the Rumble page at WZLX.com. Featured photo of Weakened Friends taken by Lauren Piandes for Vanyaland during last year's Rock And Roll Rumble final at ONCE Ballroom.
Diablogato
Location: Boston, MA and Rhode Island
Bio: In the spring of 2014, five friends with long, diverse rock and roll pedigrees – pedigree to the tune of Lost City Angels, The New Alibis, The Sickabillys, The Alrighters, Medicated Kisses to name a few – and seemingly identical record collections met up to shed out song song. Having no plan or idea what would come of it, only the hope that it would nothing any of them had done before. The sound that developed was not rockabilly. It was not punk rock. It wasn’t garage, soul, gothic southern swamp darkness, or straight mid-century American rock and roll…it was all those things. It was the echo of the record collections, the artists, and the aesthetics that they loved. To Watch City Studio they went, to track the old fashioned way…on vintage analog gear, straight to the tape with moments of brilliance, inspiration, rough edges, and wonderful mistakes all given the same respect. Diablogato are hard at work writing songs for a new 7” and full-length record, continuing to hit the stage, feeling sanctified pouring it out, and wandering wherever their rock and roll love affair takes them.
