Buffalo Tom (photo: Patric Carver) What is it about Massachusetts? That state cranks out some awesomely ugly-seeming bands with a gorgeous sound. Chaotic and grimy but sometimes paralyzingly beautiful, there’s no stoppage to the parade of the seductively strange, including the likes of Dinosaur Jr., the Lemonheads, the Pixies, Mission of Burma, and the Breeders. They all have this chapped-hands-and-dirty-work-boot quality that is constantly at odds with a delightfully pretentious, informed world view. There’s something timeless to the music, too. It’s college rock that’s actually worth listening to when you’ve long passed your term-paper-deadline anxiety and moved on to the [...]