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Cover bands

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

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Pretty doesn’t mean wallpaper

Pete Sutton holds onto his Temper
Everybody knows that a bass player in a band is supposed to be the quiet one. Temper, "Wee Regret" (mp3)
By BRETT MILANO  |  January 30, 2007

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Old is new

Moving Targets and the Prime Movers carry on
In the summer of 1994, Green Day hit Boston for a now-legendary show at the Hatch Shell.
By BRETT MILANO  |  January 23, 2007

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Tie me up, tie me down

Melissa Ferrick takes stock
It’s always an inspiring moment when an artist goes independent, breaks from the major-label corporate structure, and joins the brave new world of DIY.
By BRETT MILANO  |  January 03, 2007

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The Atlantics

Atlantics | Something Hot
The song title “Pop Shivers” tells you everything you need to know about the Atlantics: unlike many of the harder-edged, early-’80s Boston bands, these guys lived for the thrill of the hook.
By BRETT MILANO  |  December 07, 2006

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The Radiators

Dreaming Out Loud | Sci Fidelity
Like the other great album to come out of post-Katrina New Orleans, Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello’s The River in Reverse , the Radiators’ latest consists mainly of songs written before the deluge.
By BRETT MILANO  |  November 20, 2006

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Decemberist daddy

Donovan’s endless ’60s
Donovan has never seemed to be quite of this world, since his best-known songs take place either in the skies (“First There Is a Mountain”), underwater (“Atlantis”), or within inner space (“Sunshine Superman”).
By BRETT MILANO  |  November 13, 2006

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Motley crews

A short history of Boston rock
The history of Boston rock and roll begins with these immortal words: “Ding! Dong! Ding ding dong! Ka-ding dong, ding dong ding!”
By BRETT MILANO  |  November 15, 2006

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Dis-Respect

Dorothy Marcic’s musical journey
Toward the end of Respect: A Musical Journey, a revue bringing together some four dozen female-associated pop oldies, comes the big moment that’s supposed to represent American womanhood shaking off its shackles and stepping bravely into the future.
By BRETT MILANO  |  November 08, 2006

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Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3

Ole! Tarantula | Yep Roc
The wonder of Robyn Hitchcock isn’t so much that he can write a line like “Fuck me baby, I’m a trolley bus” as that he can use it in a way that makes emotional sense.
By BRETT MILANO  |  October 30, 2006

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Who is that girl?

Petra Haden, Museum of Fine Arts, October 25, 2006
Petra Haden is making a career out of covering the un-coverable.
By BRETT MILANO  |  October 26, 2006

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You had to be there

Rain: The Beatles Experience,  Opera House, October 21, 2006
Anyone who grew up with the Beatles will always be tempted to say what Ringo Starr is reported to have said to a John Lennon impersonator: “I knew the real one.”
By BRETT MILANO  |  October 23, 2006

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Something for Everyone

Lindsey Buckingham, Orpheum Theatre, October 13, 2006
Lindsey Buckingham has never been much for blatantly confessional songs.
By BRETT MILANO  |  October 16, 2006

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Saint Steven

Over The Hills/The Bastich | Eclectic Discs
One of Boston’s more notorious late-’60s artifacts, this is the psychedelic album that a 19-year-old Steve Cataldo recorded a few years before forming the Nervous Eaters, and it’s making its CD debut on a prog-specialist UK label.
By BRETT MILANO  |  October 10, 2006

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Exit the King

All Shook Up is all screwed up
The Elvis Presley–themed musical All Shook Up has all the makings of an entertaining train wreck: a bunch of Elvis songs strung together with inane dialogue; silly characterization; an implausible plot.
By BRETT MILANO  |  October 03, 2006

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Mr. Crafty

Brett Rosenberg solves a few problems
When Brett Rosenberg and I meet for an interview in Porter Square, we keep getting distracted by the sight of Al Kooper walking past Bruegger’s Bagel Bakery. Brett Rosenberg, "Absolutely Not" (mp3)
By BRETT MILANO  |  September 21, 2006

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Back to the garage

Little Steven and the Mooney Suzuki
In a perfect world, it would have been Little Steven Van Zandt’s channel, rather than Howard Stern’s, that prompted hundreds of thousands to sign up for Sirius satellite radio.
By BRETT MILANO  |  September 12, 2006

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P.F. Sloan

Sailover | Hightone
P.F. Sloan sings about as well as Jimmy Webb — which explains why both are known mainly for the late-’60s hits they wrote for others.
By BRETT MILANO  |  July 05, 2006

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La-la landings

The return of Paula Kelley, plus Merrie Amsterburg’s folk epiphany
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?
By BRETT MILANO  |  June 20, 2006

The New Cars

The new real thing
On stage, the new line-up didn’t sound like a tribute act, and neither did it sound like a Cars/Utopia hybrid. It sounded like the real thing.
By BRETT MILANO  |  June 14, 2006
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