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Pretty & Nice: A Tour Diary

On the road from Oregon to Boston with New England's newest Sub Pop signees
By JEREMY MENDICINO | September 04, 2008

Local rock plows ahead

Not every local rocker is hibernating or joining Bang Camaro this winter.
Winter offerings you won’t have to shovel
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 26, 2007

Live and kicking

Yes, we suffer from an embarrassment of riches when it come to live music here in the Boston area.
Live reviews: 2007 in review
By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 17, 2007

Stage worthies

The roar of the greasepaint precedes that of the autumn wind this year.
Fall on the Boston boards
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 12, 2007

Trane, Joyce Dee Dee, Sco, and more

The official kickoff to the season begins with the week of activities celebrating the 30th anniversary of the John Coltrane Memorial Concert.
A jam-packed season of jazz
By JON GARELICK | September 12, 2007

World music

There’s more to Boston’s classical music scene than the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The BSO goes traveling, and Berlin comes to Boston
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | September 12, 2007

Bounty

It’s payback time for Boston’s blues and roots music scene.
The best of the season’s roots, world, folk, and blues
By TED DROZDOWSKI | September 12, 2007

Basstown nights

If 2006 was the year Boston germinated, 2007 is the year it grows up.
The new scene emerges; Halloween preparations
By DAVID DAY | September 12, 2007

BBC America?

The British are coming! And they have American accents!
The networks put some English on the fall TV season
By JOYCE MILLMAN | September 12, 2007

Busy busy

“If you pulled the cord and the chute didn’t open, how would you dance on the way down?”
Something for everyone
By DEBRA CASH | September 12, 2007

Turn on the bright lights

Art this fall grapples with issues like gender and journalism, personal space and human survival, and what to have for lunch.
Art, women, politics, and food
By RANDI HOPKINS | September 12, 2007

Locked and loaded

Okay, this is getting ridiculous. It’s already been a strong year for games, with four — four ! — game-of-the-year contenders before Labor Day.
The fall promises a double-barreled blast of gaming greatness
By MITCH KRPATA | September 12, 2007

War, peace, and Robert Pinsky

Every few years, a fall publishing season emerges that should remind us that Boston could be the literary epicenter of America.
The season's fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
By JOHN FREEMAN | September 12, 2007

Happy endings

The end is nigh! And I’m not talking about the mortgage market.
Bad news begets good tunes
By MATT ASHARE | September 12, 2007

War zones

The party’s over. Time for the lessons to begin.
Fall films face terror at home and abroad
By PETER KEOUGH | September 12, 2007

Christians and Lions, 'Gimme Diction'

From More Songs for Dreamsleepers & the Very Awake
By BOSTON PHOENIX VIDEO | March 09, 2007

The late show

Boston lives after 2 am. It’s just a different city, more of a landscape than a community. Audio Slideshow: Allston, 2 to 6 am Audio Slideshow: Cambridge, 2 to 6 am Audio Slideshow: Downtown Boston, 2 to 6 am
Boston, from 2 am to 6 am
By CAMILLE DODERO, MIKE MILIARD, AND WILL SPITZ | January 31, 2007

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

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history

The Phoenix picks the shows that have defined the scene
By PHOENIX STAFF | October 30, 2006

T-totaled

Our mission: get off work, hop on the T and ride from BC to Harvard, stopping along the way to enjoy as many local drinking holes as possible before the dreaded 2 am shutdown. What follows is a detailed account of our odyssey.
How to drink your way from BC to Harvard using public transportation
By WILL SPITZ | September 06, 2006

Three-way

Did we piss off the hipster-show gods?
José González, Arctic Monkeys, and Annie
By WILL SPITZ | April 07, 2006

Free your ass

Legendary Parliament-Funkadelic mastermind George Clinton was asleep sitting up in a small lounge at Berklee College of Music last Thursday morning, his trademark multi-colored dreads concealed by a hooded sweatshirt.
George Clinton’s Berklee tutorial
By WILL SPITZ | March 08, 2006

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