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Riot squads

On the morning that the Celtics and the Lakers readied for Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals, framing one of the most storied and intense rivalries in pro sports, the police departments of Boston and Los Angeles geared up for the worst.
While Boston chilled, LA burned. What makes fans in some cities go wild — win or lose?
By CHRIS FARAONE | June 25, 2010

Reality bites

At some point or another, the greatest artists are pegged as oddballs, weirdos, freaks. Being a great artist does mean going out on a limb.
The singular surrealism of Robyn Hitchcock
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | June 04, 2010

2009: The year in local pop

When I think back on 2009, I feel the same pleasant discomfort you get at the end of a John Hughes movie, when suddenly all the jocks and dorks and punks are good friends. This year, hardcore denizens of time-worn niches came out of hiding and acted al
The '09 mixtape
By MATT PARISH | December 25, 2009

The Big Hurt: Parse and labor

I think music-news headlines are now officially my favorite part of pop music.
The week in unhelpful headlines
By DAVID THORPE | June 19, 2009

Hot ticket

Here's a hot flash for you: dying is easy (in the theatrical sense of bombing onstage); producing a successful show is hard.
Menopause the Musical summers at Trinity
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | June 05, 2009

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

Seeing music

"The Sight of Sound" at Machines with Magnets focuses on the impetus behind much locally-made art: music.
'The Sight of Sound' at Machines With Magnets
By GREG COOK | March 17, 2009

Crossword: ''Earning all A's''

Good grades, good grief
Good grades, good grief
By MATT JONES | March 11, 2009

Review: The Bad Plus's For All I Care

On each of their previous albums, the Bad Plus let it be known they owed as much to classic rock and pop as to prog jazz.
Heads Up (2009)
By JEFF TAMARKIN | January 27, 2009

Class of the Titans

Hypothesis: If a band perform a tribute to a parody musical act, does it create a meta-textual black hole from which no form of entertainment can escape?
MUSIC SEEN
By DAN CLARK | December 23, 2008

Review: Nina Simone - To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story

Nina Simone was her own gospel, a sinuous force of uncompromising power and righteous beauty.
RCA/Legacy
By ZETH LUNDY | December 09, 2008

The Big Hurt: The YouTube anime mystery

YouTube is now so shockingly complete in its catalogue of illegally uploaded music that it's like a cheap jukebox that plays every song, ever.
What the hell is wrong with the Internet? Thorpe utterly fails to investigate . . .
By DAVID THORPE | December 01, 2008

Stayin’ alive

Once in a while, usually during slow rock weeks, some strange little “quirky news” story will get stuck in the media craw and bounce around uselessly to pretty much every outlet.
How to survive without resorting to disco
By DAVID THORPE | October 28, 2008

Bigger! Better!!

This year the festival will host 58 world premieres and 41 North American premieres.
The 12th Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | July 30, 2008

Meet Dave

Murphy gives it his best shot, but the humorless script and the overuse of funhouse FX by director Brian Robbins implode Dave on the launch pad.
A humorless ET-tale
By TOM MEEK | July 16, 2008

Boston music news: April 11, 2008

Notes on the future of the Paradise Lounge and more

By JIM SULLIVAN | April 08, 2008

Seek and Destroy

It’s an unpredictable world we live in.
As Fast As pull out their Plastique
By SAM PFEIFLE | March 05, 2008

Show and tell

After a brief late-December break from the usual boatload of good shows, the flood picks up right where it left off in early January.
A whole new year of live music
By WILL SPITZ | January 04, 2008

Mint Julep and the Masters

DJ nights aren’t all for wylin’ out, sweaty dance floors, and scandal. The Masters, "Wednesday Night Live featuring Talib Kewli" (mp3)
French pop, hip-hop, and Ryan Durkin
By DAVID DAY | July 10, 2007

Drums and wires

“You should write about my friend Nate,” says a fellow at the counter of Harvard Square clothier Proletariat. DJ Etan, "Civil Disobedience 2" (mp3)
DJ Etan reps the new sound, plus rap from Radix
By DAVID DAY | May 01, 2007

Editors' pick: Place to buy books from a cat lady

Is that a 1977 copy of George Lucas’s Star Wars ? And over there . . . a stack of those choose-your-own adventure books you used to read as a kid?

By PHOENIX STAFF | April 19, 2007

Cover bands

It’s one thing to cover a Beatles or Harry Nilsson tune, another to cover a whole album.
Meet the Smithereens! and Pussy Cats
By BRETT MILANO | February 13, 2007

Chamber music revival

Classical and rock ‘n roll music suffer the same identity crisis.
Portland should rock out with its Bach out
By BEN MEIKLEJOHN | January 03, 2007

The new year is full of promise

Local music took a few hits in 2006, with the shuttering of more venues, leaving us with a small cluster of fully functioning outlets for homegrown bands: AS220, the Ocean Mist, Cats, and the Living Room.
Things we'd like to see happen this year in local music
By BOB GULLA | January 02, 2007

Hints of Halloween

I’ve always thought of the Scissor Sisters as the best UK band to come out of the States, a sort of Frankie Goes to Hollywood with better songs and a broader musical palette that embraces everything from Pink Floydian textural excursions to Ziggy Stardus
Scissor Sisters, Orpheum Theatre, October 22
By MATT ASHARE | October 23, 2006

Those were the daze

He goes by the Mad Peck, Dr. Oldie, and a few other cheeky monikers, depending on his pursuit: making posters, writing record reviews, archiving comics, spinning discs, or selling rare recordings.
Unearthing the Mad Peck’s psychedelic artifacts
By BOB GULLA | October 17, 2006

Broken Social queens

Since rising to indie prominence with 2002’s You Forgot It in People , Canada’s Broken Social Scene have famously perfected the art of spreading themselves far too thin in all the right ways.
Feist reveals her avant side and Stars’ Amy Millan goes solo
By SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON | September 11, 2006

La-la landings

When Paula Kelley left Boston for LA two years ago, some of her fans were concerned. Would she stick to the idiosyncratic pop that had been her staple here in town or start pumping out fodder for film soundtracks?
The return of Paula Kelley, plus Merrie Amsterburg’s folk epiphany
By BRETT MILANO | June 20, 2006

La-la landings

Flashbacks: February 17, 2006

These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Chris Brook and Jessica McConnell.
The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
By EDITORIAL | February 16, 2006

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