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A Red Sox aural history

Going to a ballgame for the music is like visiting a bus station for bouillabaisse. You shouldn't get your hopes up.
How I learned to face the music
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 08, 2011
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The all-seeing eye of rock and roll

The Masons of Amicable Lodge have tattoos curling out from under their button-down shirts. They wear giant rings and waist aprons that look like oversize satin envelopes. They wear ties and medals and amulets. They carry staffs. Each month, they gather
How the Boston rock scene grew up, got real jobs, and became — Freemasons?
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON  |  February 18, 2011
Teg Nugent + Val Halla at Lupo's

Teg Nugent + Val Halla at Lupo's


My 11-year-old walks around singing "Cat Scratch Fever" and I'm not sure where he heard it - Rock Band, some Garfield soundtrack, classic rock station...
By webteam  |  June 09, 2010

Wall Street's death wish

If you read the front page of the September 6 New York Times , P+J hope you are either dumbfounded, appalled, frightened, or so pissed off that you went and got the Uzi from the attic and looked for the Amtrak schedule for the Northeast Corridor train
Investing in mortality; plus, getting it right, and wireless, in West Virginia
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  September 11, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Devil music

When I was around 10 years old, I wandered into a rural flea market and found one of the greatest pieces of music journalism ever written: a forgotten crank masterpiece called Backward Masking Unmasked that had been written in 1983 by Texan minister
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By DAVID THORPE  |  May 08, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Clench and release

For your edifying consumption, another stroll through the wasteland of godawful publicity.
Smooth jazz, revenge fantasies, and . . . wangs
By DAVID THORPE  |  February 23, 2009
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Volcano Suns | The Bright Orange Years and All-Night Lotus Party

I'm one of those rare specimens who, thanks to the vagaries of time and fate, got into Volcano Suns before Mission of Burma.
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By MIKE MILIARD  |  February 03, 2009
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Interview: Crooked X

Before I climb onto the enormo tour bus of Oklahoma modern rockers Crooked X, I meet up with them at a Dunkin' Donuts, and witness their drummer, Boomer, ask his road manager, with a straight face, if they have Egg McMuffins here.
Your New Favorite Teenage Rock N Roll High School Metal Music Machine
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  January 07, 2009
Andy, Fletcher, WTF and The Nuge!

Andy, Fletcher, WTF and The Nuge!


Andy Ference phones in to talk about kicking Stars ass, Fletcher reviews music he hasn't heard, we check the WTF Line and hear The Finisher!...
By Charlie  |  November 04, 2008
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The Nuge!


 Ted "The Nuge" Nugent phoned in this morning. He is equal time. Hear the complete interview here.
By Charlie  |  November 04, 2008
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Chick schtick

Sandra Bernhard was supposed to be performing in Boston this week. But that was before she challenged whether Sarah Palin would keep the baby if she became pregnant after being violated by a group of black men in New York.
The case of Sandra Bernhard vs. Sarah Palin begs the question: is it ever okay to use “rape” in a punch line?
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 16, 2008
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Who brought the cool kid?

“For me, punk is the new idea, always the new idea, forever the new idea. That’s why punk can never die. Because as long as there are people, there will be new ideas.”

Ian MacKaye visits Tufts
By WILL SPITZ  |  April 15, 2008

Guitars are from Mars, Feist and Björk are from Venus

It’s 3 am. Do you know if you’re a man or a woman?
A musical battle of the sexes
By JAMES PARKER AND SHARON STEEL  |  March 19, 2008
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Just the facts

Phillipe + Jorge wake up frightened by a bizarre new concept in the literary world: a book by a politician that actually tells the truth.
Linc Chafee exhibits typical candor in his forthcoming book
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  January 30, 2008
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Maxed-out minimalists

One busty female drummer, one spitfire guitarist, and a deep fondness for raw Motor City rawk reduced to its grittiest garage-punk essence.
The White Stripes, Agganis Arena, July 23, 2007
By MATT ASHARE  |  July 30, 2007
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Sharpshooting

In “Sharpshooter,” former Helium frontwoman Mary Timony goes after the rock world’s most famous bow-and-arrow hunter, the Nuge. Mary Timony Band, "Sharpshooter" (mp3)
Mary Timony takes aim at the Nuge
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  May 25, 2007
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What’s the story?

‘Liam Gallagher should have stayed in England,’ opined Newsday after a show on Long Island.
Sorting through the ruins of Oasis
By JAMES PARKER  |  February 06, 2007
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The Cartoon Network goes heavy metal

Metal remains fertile ground for satire on all fronts, but what sets the Cartoon Network’s new animated series Metalocalypse apart is the reverence that precedes the ridicule. Brendon Small, "Dethklok Detheme" (mp3) Watch the trailer for Metal
Brendon Small’s Metalocalypse adventure
By LARISSA GLASSER  |  August 08, 2006
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Damnocracy

Supergroup was the bastard son of two other VH1 shows — The Surreal Life and Behind the Music — in that it offered a new and bristling hybrid of “celebreality.”
Supergroup and the state of heavy-metal nation
By JAMES PARKER  |  July 11, 2006

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