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Boston music news: July 6, 2007

Notes on the Unseen and the Secret Stars
Does punk rock get better the more the world seems to be falling apart?

By: JIM SULLIVAN | July 03, 2007

Orchestral maneuvers

Paul Oakenfold and Hem with the Boston Pops
On stage, Paul had saluted scratching in early hip-hop culture by manipulating a 12-inch record briefly and then holding it up for the crowd to see.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 29, 2007

Tangled up in Bob

Bryan Ferry delivers a full album of Dylan tunes
“Dylanesque” isn’t what comes to mind when you think of the suave, new-romantic, once-and-future frontman of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 25, 2007

Boston music news: June 29, 2007

Notes on the Big Disappointments and a new booker at the Middle East
Call your band the Big Disappointments and you win both ways.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 25, 2007

Long Journeyman

Willie Nile, Club Passim, June 22, 2007
Willie Nile may not be a household name, even among serious musos.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 25, 2007

Good vibrations

Dinosaur Jr. play nice and loud together
J Mascis hates Lou Barlow. And the feeling is mutual. Dinosaur Jr, "Almost Read" (mp3)

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 19, 2007

Panoramic pop

Cyndi Lauper and "True Colors," Bank of America Pavilion, June, 16, 2007
The Pavilion was P-town for a night.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 19, 2007

Boston music news: June 15, 2007

Notes on Jim's Big Ego, Campaign for Real-Time, and, um, Mayor Menino
Jim Infantino of Jim's Big Ego is describing The Ego & the Oracle , a show he’s been staging Sundays at Jimmy Tingle’s Off Broadway.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 12, 2007

Erasure

Lights at the End of the World | Mute
Heck, they could have made it on Mars.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 11, 2007

McCartneymania

Celebrating Paul at the Hard Rock, May 31, 2007
Forget, for a moment, the ugliness concerning Heather Mills and her impending divorce from Paul McCartney.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 04, 2007

Rock against rock

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Middle East Downstairs, June 3, 2007
Once on stage, SGM launched into a much-ado-about-everything set — a collision of prog-rock, thrash metal, free jazz, punk, off-kilter funk, and more.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 04, 2007

Boston music news: June 8, 2007

Notes on Angeline, Girl Authority, and Shadows Fall
As Brett Milano detailed in “Cellars by Starlight”, a couple of years back Linda Viens and Emily Grogan were playing their guitars while their kids played together.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | June 04, 2007

Boston music news: August 25, 2006

The latest developments on the Lily Pad's situation
The LILY PAD , which took over its tiny Cambridge Street space from Zeitgeist Gallery (which moved around the corner to 186 Hampshire Street) last March 1, had its doors shuttered by the Cambridge Licensing Commission from August 11 to 13.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | January 28, 2010

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