Sound Museum Rehearsal Complex

When my band first moved into this building six months ago it wasn’t THAT bad, definitely an improvement over the old Denby Road practice complex. The power works in our room more often then not (but by all means definitely shuts off at random from time to time), the front doors locked properly (except for when the one nearest our room was jammed shut for an entire week, hello fire hazard!) and there was soap in the bathroom (once a month)…
.actually what am I talking about, this place is horrible. Last week I showed up for practice and there was a pile of dried vomit outside my room, and Sunday night I went to use the bathroom and a literal piece of shit was floating on the flooded tile floor. I used to tolerate the The Sound Museum, but it’s gotten so bad lately that we’re moving out. There are facilities that actually get cleaned and taken care of in the Boston area that aren’t owned by half retards. If your band wants to give it a shot be my guest, have fun with the roach infestation and dirty hallways that seem to get worse and worse by the week.

need a dirty room to play metal in? they got em.
people here are cool and respect one another. the building has seen better days, but its close enough for rock and roll. the air conditioning in this joint is surprisingly efficient. pretty darn special place all in all. new in town? bring a twelve pack and a guitar and stand around until you are in a band.

After having spent time in their old building on Denby Road in Allston, this place feels like the palace at Versailles.
Gone is the rampant stench of poop, cigarette smoke, and stale sweat. Gone is the bathroom that triggers the gag reflex. (It’s still not the cleanest, but at least I don’t feel soiled after walking in) Instead we have clean hallways, doors that actually lock and stay that way, a decent amount of parking on the street outside, as well as a lot, and plenty of power. It’s reasonably priced, and as long as you’ve got a way to get to the fairly isolated location (not really near the T) then you’ve got a place to make all the noise you want.

Lady Gaga, Kanye, and all the others can keep their fancy studio spaces. My studio mates and I keep it real and raw up here at the at the sound museum rehearsal complex. With access to your own space ²⁴⁄₇ and no limits on how loud you can be it doesn’t get much better. Well maybe if there was a concierge and a gym/​spa. Yeah right… But most days we’re just glad the bathrooms work and aren’t covered in some drunken bass players left over chinese.

The Sound Museum in Brighton on North Beacon is something special. It’s a giant industrial-​type building sectioned off into practice spaces for local bands. The rooms aren’t especially clean or sound proof, but I think that’s part of the charm. Who wants to make raging walls of sound and sweet feedback in a sparkling clean professional facility? You need ambiance for that! And at $ 500 a space, if you share with another band, it’s pretty affordable.
Yeah, you have to compete with bands who share your walls to hear each other sometimes… and yeah, it smells like boiler room/​bowling alley/​Freddy Krueger/weed…but I like the Sound Museum just the way it is, thank you. It is a perfect place to bring the rock.