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on chains backed by his baying hounds // photographer / writer / blogger at noise floor covering music & melancholy // allston forever

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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 20h
me after that game
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
my bootleg cedanne city connect arrived just in time for the postseason. go sox.
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
gotta savor this final day of the year to watch objectively meaningless major league baseball
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@jtkantor.bsky.social josh I’m following through with a request! could we hear “deacon blues” tonight?
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
wish they looked a little more inspiring the past couple weeks but the sox officially clinching a postseason spot still feels huge. the first couple months of this season really were *that* bad.
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
exited the 90-minute ecstatic-totalism-noise-rock set greeted by the phrase “trevor story go-ahead 3-run homer”…sometimes life is beautiful
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
wrote about maiden’s fiery hit-parade return to boston last night - www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/10/a...
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Iron Maiden return to Boston for a 50th anniversary victory lap - The Boston Globe
The band's current “Run For Your Lives” trek, which hit TD Garden Wednesday, constrains the setlist entirely to Maiden’s peak-performance early eras.
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
busker playing sabbath covers on a tuba outside the iron maiden show - we salute you
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
late on gig watch this month but still lots of good stuff coming up - www.yardhawk.net/everybodytal...
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Gig Watch: September 2026 - Noise Floor
Shows not to miss in and around Boston for the month of September. __________ Autumn is almost here, which means if you’re anything like me, your calendar is rapidly becoming more crowded. My picks fo...
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
lowkey very annoying that whenever I splurge on buying portra it immediately feels worth it when I start scanning. I don't need motivation to buy $17/roll film, I'm going broke enough shooting ultramax
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
someone puked a couple aisles behind me at fenway tonight which was honestly a reasonable reaction to the first couple innings of that game
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's not the only reason he fucking sucks but all my Massachusetts homies love and support trans people and rightwing Democrats can eat shit with this losing strategy.
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
excited that it's finally primary day so I can stop being confronted with seth moulton's desperate loser energy every time I look at a TV
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
allston dive bar scene truly remains unmatched. deeply weird local music bill at the sil dart room on a monday night while an adjacent TV inexplicably cycles midseason NFL stats from last year -> model will still make you a stellar bar pizza at 11pm
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
we are so back I don’t recall what happened this weekend at all
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ctice90.bsky.social @ctice90.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@jonbois.bsky.social watching baseball
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Man even the dumbest fucking piece of shit bird is so cool to watch. Some random shithead of birds. All the other birds know he sucks. But he can still fly and look at our asses down here.
Bird
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
it’s a beautiful day for the boston red sox to sweep a double-header
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
gallery + recap from the gloomiest weekend of the summer - www.yardhawk.net/everybodytal...
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Somergloom took over Deep Cuts and Crystal Ballroom - 8/6-8/7 - Noise Floor
Boston’s annual heavy festival returned for another long weekend of high volume and high drama in Medford and Somerville. __________ It’s been a dour delight to watch Somergloom evolve over the past s...
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
man I know it made sense when we traded him, but 8 shutout innings against the dodgers really makes you wish the sox still had sale
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Eric Malcolm @ericmalcolm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Others have said it previously, but I love how this promotional image from the 1990 Stephen King's IT looks like a prestige drama courtroom show, that just so also happens to involve a clown.
The cast of Tommy Lee Wallace's IT miniseries (1990)
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP to genuine real one dolly parton. being in the photo pit for her surprise golden hour newport set some years ago still an all-time surreal festival moment
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Man what a punchline lol
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
fenway walk-off possibly the best feeling in the world
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
any amount of drugs you are carrying should be completely legal if you can prove you are headed to the gathering of the juggalos, that is none of the government or general population’s business
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
eating at spanish restaurants is living this meme (complimentary)
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
sox no longer on a losing streak overlapping the entirely of my euro trip, we are so back
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
surprise mandatory x-ray checkpoint at la sagrada família. did god fry a roll of vintage provia to humble me? only time will tell
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
despite being kind of harrowing logistically it’s been wild seeing gerard way faux-disembowel a guy in the middle of the mets stadium and then watching an eclipse totality from somebody’s olive field in spain in the span of a couple days
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
this has also caused me to miss something very personally important that I was supposed to be in brooklyn for several hours ago, I take back anything good I’ve ever said about @amtrak.com
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
oh yeah don’t worry there was also no drinkable water after hour one of sitting totally still
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
TIL in the event of an amtrak power failure there is literally no contingency plan for anything, you’re just gonna vibe there in 90 degree heat with no AC/air circulation/functional bathroom for like however many hours. also you can’t leave. also the cafe car is closed. seems bad?
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
that sox game started while I was on the train to a 4-band metal show and I got to watch the walk-off in the ride back home, vibes immaculate
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
absolutely infuriating both as a longtime BV reader and contributor. start a blog and support your local cause literally everything else is gonna be burned to the ground by some corporate ghoul sooner or later.
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
if you wrote this sox season as a script it’d be too improbable, particularly the bello-the-unhittable-reliever subplot
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
man I knew I should’ve gone to the game tonight
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
it is, but I am on the edge of my seat all afternoon regardless
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
some peak boston action this afternoon watching duck boat after duck boat of confused tourists pass by the skatepark hardcore show
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
august gig watch // new fiddlehead songs rip / can’t wait to hear em at the skate park tomorrow - www.yardhawk.net/everybodytal...
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Gig Watch: August 2026 - Noise Floor
Shows not to miss in and around Boston for the month of August. __________ It’s a somewhat slower month as the summer starts to wind down, but still plenty of good stuff to catch: 8/1 – Fiddlehead @ L...
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
behind on blogging this month, summary post on a couple of recent gigs - www.yardhawk.net/everybodytal...
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An Illegally Blind appreciation post - Noise Floor
Recaps from two killer Illegally Blind-presented gigs from July. __________ I had originally planned on standalone blog posts for the Carnivorous Bells and Vorhex Angel shows I caught at O’Brien’s and...
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
this and the yankees walking in a run to walk themselves off in chicago...a beautiful baseball afternoon
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
one major takeaway from trying to be more mp3/ipod-centric and less reliant on streaming this year is that we absolutely gotta bring back including the download code with the vinyl release
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
RIP I ate 10,000 buffalo tofu burritos over the course of college and a couple years working at the state street globe office and I loved every one of them
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
(TNT's "INSIDE OLYMPUS") ZEUS: hey Poseidon. tell em where we're sending him. where did you say we're sending him POSIDEON: Laestrygonia
Shaquille O'Neal, sitting in front of Mt. Olympus, with a gold crown and a lightning boldCharles Barkley, also at Mt. Olympus, wearing a gold crown with a tridentShaquille O'Neal, still at Mt. Olympus, cracking up with his lightning bolt
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
📸 at newport for BDC this weekend
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
seeing numbers 10 and 14 in person was kind of emotional after enduring a lot of rough games this year. they are suddenly a believable team, against all odds, and it’s fun!
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
1.) shocking, end of an era, only place I could reliably buy malort, etc. 2.) much like twin donuts, I will go to war to protect that neon sign
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
the get-in price for the potential record-breaker at fenway tonight currently $200+ lol
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
man I could be quitting my job right now if I'd put money on this red sox team tying records set by ted williams in the '40s like a month and a half ago
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ben stas @benstas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
14th consecutive win on martini hat giveaway night at fenway…I felt that
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