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J the S | The Last Days

J the S has been promising The Last Days since he went by Jake the Snake.
Same Plate/Greater Good
By CHRIS FARAONE | February 10, 2012

Made for a modest budget of $17 million — and feeling like it (who needs convincing explosions in an action movie?), Dante Lam's latest still gets the job done from a run-and-gun standpoint.
Run and gun
By BRETT MICHEL | January 20, 2012

[tonight in cambridge] Little Face @ Middle East

Matthew Kane is a busy man. The bassist/drummer for noisy North Shore alt-rock dudes POWERANIMAL has a new project, LITTLE FACE, which makes their debut...
By Michael Marotta | January 18, 2012

"Last song with this lineup ever!" Radio Moscow draw blood on stage in Iowa; Cambridge gig still on, but with new dudes

This week in Anton Newcombe-esque epic onstage meltdown news: The former drummer of psychedelic marauders RADIO MOSCOW fucked singer/guitarist Parker Griggs up something gnarly immediately...
By Barry Thompson | January 12, 2012

Class of 2012

If 2012 truly represents the End Times, then it's best to go out with a sonic bang.
A dozen fresh faces on Boston's music scene
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | January 06, 2012

New music for Boston's winter of discontent

Here are 10 record-release parties from both newcomers and veterans of our city, dropping new music from now until March's thaw.
Cold brewed
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | December 30, 2011

Getting rocked with Cocked N' Loaded

Two years ago, Cocked N' Loaded opened for the rabble-rousing Upper Crust at the now-defunct Harpers Ferry in Allston.
Plus, Mellow Bravo crashes the New Year’s Eve party
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | December 16, 2011

Photos: Hot Rod Circuit at The Middle East

Hot Rod Circuit plays to a packed house at The Middle East Downstairs on November 20, 2011.
The Middle East Downstairs | November 20, 2011
By MIKE JOHNSON | December 01, 2011

Photos: Peter Murphy + She Wants Revenge at the Middle East

Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge played The Middle East Downstairs on November 17, 2011.
Middle East Downstairs | November 17, 2011
By DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | November 25, 2011

[live review] WU LYF @ the Middle East

Sustainability in indie music is a motherfucker, probably more so than any other realm of music. All it really takes in pop music is one...
By Michael C. Walsh | November 11, 2011

Shakedown, 11.10.11 to 11.19.11: November spawns a slew of new Boston records

Thursday 11.10.11 MOVERS & SHAKERS @ Middle East upstairs The textured citrine sounds of Movers & Shakers’ latest record, National Harvester, are perfect for November...
By Michael Marotta | November 10, 2011

[live review] Lil B @ the Middle East

The internet is a cold and faceless place where actions rarely have consequences. For example, if Youtube user shermrock18 wants to leave a comment to...
By Michael C. Walsh | November 08, 2011

Young London pops Boston's rock bubble

It's a sentiment as old as the faded memories of the glory days at clubs like the Rat, Bunratty's, and the Channel: Boston is a rock-and-roll town.
Dance to the underground
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | October 21, 2011

[video] Major Lazer hype man Skerrit Bwoy hosts banana-eating competition @ Throwed

Presented without commentary... No wait, hold up, one thought -- is this maybe why the always-packed weekly 18+ electro/dubstep party THROWED was snubbed by the...
By Michael Marotta | October 20, 2011

Photos: One Night Band at the Middle East

40 musicians from a cross section of area bands form eight new acts for one night only in One Night Band at the Middle East on September 24, 2011.
Hosted by Boston Band Crush | September 24, 2011
By KYLE CARRIER | September 30, 2011

Review: A Dolphin Tale

Winter the dolphin gamely plays herself in this loose re-telling of her fight for survival after a crab trap mangles her tail.
Not much of a splash
By ALICIA POTTER | September 23, 2011

Blasting away the blues with Bass Drum of Death

Bass Drum of Death, the cranium-clobbering garage duo-turned-trio chosen to rep the Hospitality State this year, will join Japandroids tonight (Thursday) to metaphorically Eiffel Tower a sold-out Middle East.
Sound the charge
By BARRY THOMPSON | September 16, 2011

What's wrong with the Palestinians' U.N. gambit

The Palestinian campaign to upgrade their diplomatic status at the United Nations is a train wreck in the making.
A dangerous charade
By EDITORIAL | September 16, 2011

A decade of awful air travel

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of overzealous TSA frisking.
Idiot Box
By MATT BORS | September 16, 2011

Review: Circumstance

Circumstance begins like an early Kiarostami film, but with schoolgirls in hijabs instead of schoolboys in sweaters.
Schoolgirls in hijabs
By ANN LEWINSON | September 09, 2011

[awesome video alert] Bring The Knife "Werewolf Fuckdown;" record release 9/10 @ Middle East

Been a while since we posted an Awesome Video Alert, but this new clip from metal dudes BRING THE KNIFE easily makes the cut because...
By Michael Marotta | September 06, 2011

In his new graphic novel, Craig Thompson wins an argument with God

This book is a gorgeous object; to make it, Thompson apparently covered himself in honey and rolled around in a thousand years of Arabic calligraphy and Islamic art, and the result is breathtaking — the amount of ink expended on one resplendent panel aft
Illuminated manuscript
By S.I. ROSENBAUM | September 02, 2011

Photos: One Night in Boston 2011

STUFF Magazine presents photos taken in Boston's streets over eight hours on the night of July 15, 2011; here are a few of our favorites.
Fifteen photographers. Eight hours.
By STUFF BOSTON | August 12, 2011

Review: The Devil's Double

Watching this litany of murder and debauchery in the gilded splendor of Saddam's Baghdad, in which Dominic Cooper plays both Saddam's psycho son Uday and the Iraqi good guy Latif, who was forced to serve as his double, I thought: this is like Scarface,
Like Scarface , but with a difference
By PETER KEOUGH | August 05, 2011

Company One takes on Jason Grote's whirling 1001

Grote uses the same framing device as the original One Thousand and One Nights , which begins with Shahriyar (Nael Nacer) discovering his wife's infidelity and deciding that the only way to prevent his future wives from cheating is to marry virgins, de
American Nights
By MADDY MYERS | July 29, 2011

Out: On a hot summer night at the Middle East, Dream Hits surf a garage-pop lullaby

Following a lively opening set of Americana-infused indie rock from South Shore five-piece War Presidents, Dream Hits breezed through their show with the infectiously simple "Bummer" and the sweet melodrama of "Meat," a song that sounded so warm and fam
Wake up the buzz meter
By PATRICK MCDERMOTT | July 29, 2011

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