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Kay Hanley's new band, new video, new midlife crisis? Watch Palmdale's "Here Comes the Summer"

Don't get us wrong: PALMDALE is the funnest thing KAY HANLEY has done since LETTERS TO CLEO. We think of her, first and foremost, as...
By Carly Carioli | April 09, 2010

Photos: Hot Stove Cool Music at the House of Blues

Hot Stove Cool Music benefit show featuring Tinted Windows, State Radio, The Low Anthem, Kay Hanley, and more, live at the Paradise Rock Club
Tinted Windows, Low Anthem, Kay Hanley, and more, live at the Paradise Rock Club, January 9, 2010
By MARY OUELLETTE | January 15, 2010

Together at last: Amanda Palmer and Kay Hanley duet at Lizard Lounge [video]

We should've known, last week when KAY HANLEY tweeted her New Year's resolution to become AMANDA PALMER's new BFF, that this would happen sooner rather...
By Carly Carioli | January 08, 2010

Kay Hanley + The Grownup Noise + Ingenue

Two weeks ago, former Letters to Cleo frontwoman Kay Hanley waxed splenetic on the health-care debate for the Huffington Post. (If you can get over...
By Shaula Clark | August 26, 2009

Jeanne Connolly, 1957-2009

Jeanne Connolly, who died Monday after a 16-month battle with colon cancer, was the ebullient presence behind the bar at T.T. the Bear's Place for more than two decades.
Beloved, Bar None
By JIM SULLIVAN | February 19, 2009

Review: Letters to Cleo live

Was everything still the same? And were we?
Paradise Rock Club, December 8, 2008
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 09, 2008

Slideshow: Letters To Cloe

LTC at the Paradise
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 09, 2008

PODCAST: New Letters to Cleo interview. Plus: From 1995, Cleos at Fort Apache

Letters To Cleo: "Here and Now" [Live in Los Angeles, 2008] Probably no secret that we've still got ...
By Carly Carioli | December 08, 2008

Local influence

In a day when so much radio seems less and less local, WFNX remains in touch.
WFNX is keeping it close to home
By JIM SULLIVAN | December 01, 2008

Rock relaunched

Jeff Robbins is something of a rock star — just not the kind who plays Super Bowl halftime shows or collects Grammys.
Orbit resume their aborted mission
By MATT ASHARE | June 02, 2008

A winning combination

Fans of the Sox and of local rock once had at least one thing in common: a big inferiority complex.
Hot Stove, Cool Music at the Paradise Rock Club, January 5-6
By MATT ASHARE | January 08, 2008

Going on sale: December 14, 2007

Holy Fuck, Mika, Liars, and more.
Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
By GOING ON SALE | December 12, 2007

The Legends of Summer

Never mind that no one in Legend’s band wore a Sox cap and that Legend himself may, gasp, be a Yankee fan for all anyone knows.
Hot Stove, Cool Music, Fenway Park, August 24, 2007
By MATT ASHARE | August 27, 2007

Boston music news: August 24, 2007

Last summer, it poured on the "Hot Stove, Cool Music: Fenway Park Sessions" fundraiser, putting a damper on an event that was already a bit down.
Notes on the 2007 edition of Hot Stove, Cool Music
By JIM SULLIVAN | August 20, 2007

’S no joke

A roomful of local nominees and friends made it to the Paradise last Wednesday.
A Best Music Poll pre-party, Paradise, April 4, 2007
By BRETT MILANO | April 09, 2007

Peter Gammons's doubleheader

There’s no question that a close relationship has developed between Boston’s music scene and its baseball team .
Hot Stove, Cool Music, the Paradise Rock Club, January 6 and 7, 2007
By JIM SULLIVAN | January 10, 2007

Top 20 of 2006

Unsexy men, terrible lyrics, season finales, SuicideGirls, sex, MySpace, and sneakers. The stories you clicked on most in '06.
ThePhoenix.com's 20 most popular stories of the year
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 29, 2006

The Huffington express

We were on our way to San Francisco as part of a Huffington book tour, a surreal world in which hitching a ride on Norman Lear’s jet is no big deal. Jill Sobule, Kay Hanley, and Michelle Lewis featuring Arianna Huffington, "Fearless" (mp3)
Norman Lear’s jet? Arianna rapping? What the hell am I doing here?
By KAY HANLEY | October 04, 2006

Gritty in Pink

Why does she inspire in me the occasional death wish? Slideshow: Pink at Avalon
Pink at Avalon, July 18, 2006
By IAN SANDS | July 20, 2006

Not your mom, she’s an effing A-bomb

How a smallish, 30-something-year-old mother of two brings the party. Slideshow: Kay Hanley at T.T. the Bear's Place .
Kay Hanley at T.T. the Bear’s Place
By JESS MCCONNELL | July 19, 2006

Some girls

Some Girls thrive on the tension between Hatfield’s introspection and the outgoing personalities of Love and Gluck. Juliana's Web: a look back at Hatfield's career . By Matt Ashare
Is it last call for Freda Love and Juliana Hatfield?
By MATT ASHARE | July 18, 2006

Hot Stove Cool Music

It would be as unfair to call the second annual Hot Stove Cool Music benefit concert at Fenway Park a week ago last Wednesday a disaster as it would be to confirm that it was an unqualified success. Slideshow: Hot Stove Cool Music, July 12, 2006
Rock and rain at Fenway
By MATT ASHARE | July 14, 2006

More than words

It’s difficult to believe, but more than a decade and a half has passed since Extreme had a #1 hit with their metal ballad “More Than Words.” Kay Hanley interviews Gary Cherone (mp3) Gary Cherone, "Yeah" (mp3) Gary Cherone, "Need I Say More" (
Gary Cherone’s Extreme viewpoint
By KAY HANLEY | June 30, 2006

Kay Hanley gets personal with Gary Cherone

Another excerpt from Hanley's interview with Extreme's Cherone
By KAY HANLEY | June 29, 2006

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things - side

By | March 22, 2006

J.T. & me

Once upon a time in Harvard Square there was a short-lived venue called the Market Theatre. The space truly altered the face of performance art in Boston by taking on avant-garde projects and obscure playwrights, and turning them loose on mainstream audi
How I fell for the second-best literary hoax of the year
By KAY HANLEY | February 23, 2006

Kay Hanley

Kay Hanley may have relocated to LA, but when she returned to T.T. the Bear’s Place, she was greeted by a packed crowd who hadn’t forgotten past triumphs.
Homecoming queen
By SARAH TOMLINSON | January 13, 2006

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