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House heads

The lounge at 33 Restaurant & Lounge on Stanhope Street in the Back Bay may just have Boston’s tiniest dance floor. The upstairs restaurant isn’t much bigger.
Valentine's Day at 33 Lounge
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  February 19, 2008
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Flower power

As I write this, I’m listening to the newest Jeanne Mas CD, The Missing Flowers .
The return of Jeanne Mas
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  January 14, 2008
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Suburban house

At Rise the Saturday before Christmas, DJ Deka played a four-and-a-half-hour set.
DJ Deka’s sweet ride
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  January 07, 2008
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House at home

If you’re a producer of house music and you’re looking for a label, you might well submit your tracks to Escuro Records.
Jon Viera’s local Escuro label
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  August 21, 2007
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Ultra Naté

On the cover of her fifth CD, Naté looks to-die-for in midnight-blue opera gloves and strapless gown .
Grime, Silk and Thunder | Tommy Boy
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  June 05, 2007
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House girls

The last time I saw Maria DiIulis, the owner of BonTon Productions, was at Rumor, the popular Theater District dance club on Warrenton Street.
BonTon Productions keeps Boston’s dance clubs moving
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  April 03, 2007
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The rumor mill

“Church on Sunday” is one of the newer house-music events in the city.
A new home for house music
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  March 06, 2007
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After hours

House music — that surprise descendant of disco and of so many other, older rhythm styles — is big in Boston and becoming bigger very fast. So let’s cut right to the chase and take you into a couple of house’s power stations to see what’s going on.
The rising pulse of Boston’s house-music beat
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  January 17, 2007
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House in the House

Belgium’s Kobbe, a tall towhead, and Miami’s Austin Leeds, a stubby brunette, have become one of house music’s most prolific and eloquent and best-liked production teams.
Kobbe and Austin Leeds, Rise, December 29, 2007
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  January 10, 2007
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Guest lists

What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
 What 30 of the Phoenix 's music critics liked this year
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  January 02, 2007
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Club man

Already established as one of the world’s most respected house DJs, Roger Sanchez is now shaping his work for radio.
Sanchez has geared his new disc to radio, but he’s still a DJ.
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  November 28, 2006
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Defected In The House: Eivissa 06

“The Balearic Sound of Ibiza,” say the intro notes to the latest three-CD compilation from the prolific and inspired Defected production team.
In the House
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  September 18, 2006
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Everywoman blues

America’s R&B queen brings the pain.
Mary J. Blige at Bank of America Pavilion
By MICHAEL FREEDBERG  |  August 04, 2006

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