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MATT ASHARE

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On the Racks: June 6

From Strummin' with the Devil to a revived Live
David Lee Roth, AFI, Cheap Trick, Camera Obscura, Elvis Costello, and Live
By MATT ASHARE  |  June 06, 2006

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The Buzzcocks

Flat-Pack Philosophy | Cooking Vinyl
A pop band at heart, with a wry, occasionally abrasive world view and the big guitars to back it up, they had a big hand in inventing the clean, crisp blueprint for pop punk.
By MATT ASHARE  |  June 06, 2006

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On the Racks: May 30, 2006

Sophie Barker, Les Claypool, and Peeping Tom  
Plus, Jamie Lidell and Herbert get in the mix.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 31, 2006

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War stories

Revisiting Vietnam on film
Every chapter in Stanley Karnow’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam: A History begins not with an epigraph, but with a series of photographs.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 31, 2006

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Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Session Band

The Boss kicks off his tour with a Mighty Wind-y night at the Tweeter Center
He sung each clenched syllable as if it might be his last, strumming his guitar like he was working an old, rusted waterpump, and smiling so hard it looked like it hurt.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 30, 2006

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Pearl Jam at the Garden

Less is still more
After a dozen or more years of taking crap from friends for insisting that Pearl Jam are always great live, I was ready to call bullshit on Wednesday, at the first of two shows at the Whoever’s-Sponsoring-It-Now Garden.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 26, 2006

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Most Def

The hip-hop label opens their online store
In a move that’s sure to be copied by other indie labels, the underground hip-hop imprint Definitive Jux recently created what it’s calling “The Pharmacy” or “DJRx,” an on-line store that mimics the amazon.com/iTunes model.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 22, 2006

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On the Racks: May 23, 2006

Def Leppard, Dixie Chicks, Damone
Plus new releases by Osaka Popstar, PJ Harvey, and the American Idol kids.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 23, 2006

Gorillaz in the midst

Damon Albarn joins Beck in the pan-cultural playground
Remember the great electronica gold rush of ’97, the year Madonna’s Maverick label won a massive bidding war over long-ignored rave mystic Liam Howlett, a/k/a Prodigy, and we all grooved to the electropunk clash of “Smack My Bitch Up”?
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 17, 2006

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Growing pains

The Dresden Dolls try to balance life and art
So much has happened for the Dresden Dolls over the past year that it’s no surprise the duo fared so well in this year’s Best Music Poll.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 17, 2006

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On the racks: May 16, 2006

T Bone and the Raconteurs show their roots
Plus new records by Radio 4, Rock Kills Kid, and Ben Folds.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 16, 2006

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Secret Machines

Ten Silver Drops | Reprise
The swirling psychedelia and deep, darkly textured arrangements perfected by Secret Machines give this New-York-by-way-of-Texas band something of a British accent.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 15, 2006

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Rallying cries

Pearl Jam and Neil Young respond to Bush’s war
An increasingly unpopular war, a body count that grows daily even as our commander-in-chief touts our military triumphs, and an increasing sense of uneasiness as it becomes all too apparent that our leaders have been less than candid.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 15, 2006

Giant Drag and Pretty Girls Make Graves

Less is more meets more is more
Are bass players that hard to come by?
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 15, 2006

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On the Racks: May 9, 2006

Art Brut’s Bang Bang and Matmos’s brutish art
Plus new albums by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Grandaddy, and Snow Patrol.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 09, 2006

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The New Cars

When old bands play new tunes
With some kind of Killer(s) neo-new wave tide now undeniably lapping at the shores of mainstream pop and its underground analogue, the return of the Cars — one of Boston’s best-known new-wave breakouts — is a no brainer.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 09, 2006

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Pretty Girls Make Graves

Elan Vital | Matador
Is it even possible that this is the same Seattle band who so nicely put a little twist on the Lookout! Records’ pop-punk formula when they debuted way back in ’02 with a woman up front?
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 08, 2006

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St. Anger

On the racks: Neil Young's Living with War ; Pearl Jam's comeback album
Plus new albums by Jewel, the BellRays, and Rebel Meets Rebel.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 02, 2006

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What's up, Matador?

The indie giant gears up for a big May
Mission of Burma’s new disc isn’t due for a couple of weeks, but Matador has been kind enough to provide an MP3 preview.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 01, 2006

Rumble final

Wild-card strike
This year, the WBCN Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble, which moved from the Paradise to the Middle East back in the ’90s, waited until the final to move from the upstairs where the preliminaries were held to the larger downstairs room.
By MATT ASHARE  |  April 27, 2006
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