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Heart beats
Boston’s new electronic-music mag; plus the DFA, gay robots, and more
BY DAVID DAY
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Back during her raver days in Buffalo, ALISSA MARIELLO had a vision. "When I was in college, I sort of did my fair share of drugs," she recalls. "One time I was tripping on acid and it came to me, the thing I had to do in life. The thing I was meant to do in life was publish a magazine." Several years, an English degree, and a couple of intern- and editorships at the Weekly Dig later, Mariello started SONIC HEART, Boston’s only electronic-music magazine. Now on its fifth issue, SH has attracted top-notch contributors such as Jace "DJ/Rupture" Clayton, and Wayne "and Wax" Marshall. Its regular features include a video-arts column and a local electronic-music-history column. Both the magazine and its recently launched Web site mirror their founders’ fixation on a communal ideal. "Partnerships are really important, especially to create the unity I’m talking about. So many people have things to give," says Mariello, who started Sonic Heart with Erik Mallinson, a Museum School graduate who created SH’s elaborate Web site from scratch. "It’s a lot of DIY and a lot of lo-fi. It’s a pure sort of endeavor for Erik and I. Maybe in some small way we can be the glue that unites the community. If it grows naturally, that’s what I’m looking for." Although Mariello holds down a full-time copy-editing job, she’s still raving. "I started going to raves in high school, when I lived in Buffalo. By the time I got to Boston it was kind of over. There’s an energy missing that wasn’t always missing. There’s still a passion that is sometimes missing." Last weekend Sonic Heart had its official launch party, and the mag — available at Newbury Comics, Twisted Village, CD Spins, and Satellite Records — plans on hosting more events in the months ahead. "We really wanted to unite behind the idea that music is fun. Going to shows and watching people stand there is so incredibly boring. I’d rather dance my ass off than watch people play." For more info visit www.sonicheart.com. The DFA return to town in the form of staff DJ and producer TIM SWEENEY, who spins Saturday at Enormous Room. The spacedisco floortech master is also the host of the WNYU radio show/Podcast BEATS IN SPACE, which has some of the best mp3 mixes on the planet. Download at http://www.beatsinspace.net/. . . If you can get your records together in time, Cambridge’s MASSIVE RECORDS holds its first open-turntable event, TURNTABLE THURSDAY, tonight (October 13) from 8 to 10 pm, where anyone with an inkling and an itch can throw down. Massive recently underwent a thorough remodeling, and in addition to cleaner lines and reflective surfaces, they’ve installed a fine, three-turntable DJ setup. Call 617.576.1887 . . . Extra-sauce remixer EDDIE BAEZ makes his regular stop Sunday at Avalon in Boston. Baez, who also maintains residencies in New York and Miami, has experience with everyone from Whitney Houston to Jessica Simpson, with numerous No. 1 dance remixes to his credit. Then again, he also turned an infamous Adam Sandler routine into an authorized novelty tune called "The Gay Robot Groove." David Day spins Thursdays at Middlesex Lounge and Fridays at Enormous Room. He can be reached at circuits@squar3.com.
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