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WILL SPITZ

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Revival Meeting

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Middle East Downstairs, November 9, 2007
You can bet Amy Winehouse didn’t sweat like this.
By WILL SPITZ  |  November 13, 2007

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Are we still calling these ''podcasts''?

Fair Game music segment selections
Each show features a music segment — usually a live in-the-studio performance and interview.
By WILL SPITZ  |  November 06, 2007

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Desert session

Josh Homme’s lullabies of love
For nearly two decades, Josh Homme has had countless irons in the rock-and-roll fire.
By WILL SPITZ  |  December 16, 2008

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Britt pop

The spare magic of Spoon
It’s like the Anti–Wall of Sound.
By WILL SPITZ  |  October 09, 2007

The benefits of stage fright

Tulsa find their inner noise
Like Tanton’s opposing halves, Tulsa’s music is marked by a sort of push-pull between melody and dissonance, concision and unhinged sonic exploration.
By WILL SPITZ  |  September 18, 2007

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Singles scene

Local bands dig in with digital
It’s old news: this series of tubes they call the Internet has revolutionized the way music is distributed.
By WILL SPITZ  |  September 12, 2007

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Download festival?

How about the Tweeter Center line-up instead
It’s a pretty cool line-up of “indie” stars, indie almost-stars, college-rock faves, and local heroes.
By WILL SPITZ  |  August 14, 2007

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Up-and-coming Warped-types

Previewing the "Lucky 13th"
I almost fell asleep looking at the lineup (Bad Religion and New Found Glory again? Really?).
By WILL SPITZ  |  August 07, 2007

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Gear heads

Battles, Paradise, July 18, 2007
In May 2005 I went to the Paradise to see Prefuse 73.
By WILL SPITZ  |  July 24, 2007

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Okay Computer

We salute you
To honor the tenth anniversary of the Greatest Band in the World’s landmark third album, Stereogum gives us OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer .
By WILL SPITZ  |  July 17, 2007

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Present tensions

Battles look to the future, not the past
If it weren’t for the Middle East — the Cambridge club, not the region — NYC’s latest musical cause célèbre might not exist.
By WILL SPITZ  |  July 10, 2007

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Packin' 'em in on Lansdowne Street

Best Music Poll Party, Lansdowne Street, June 6, 2007
Whoever told you that the post-punk revival is on the wane was wrong.
By WILL SPITZ  |  June 12, 2007

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E-hanging out

Curious about: the White Stripes, Ryan Adams, Spoon, and Interpol
Uh, we definitely didn’t download any of the albums illegally and therefore can’t tell you that Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is Spoon’s finest work and a contender for album of the year.
By WILL SPITZ  |  June 11, 2007

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She really likes them!

Juliana Hatfield records with Frank Smith
Juliana Hatfield just compared herself with Bob Dylan. Juliana Hatfield and Frank Smith, "Beer and a Shot" (mp3)
By WILL SPITZ  |  June 04, 2007

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Hallelejuh!

Arcade Fire, Orpheum Theatre, May 10, 2007
One would be hard pressed to find a review of an Arcade Fire show that doesn’t include the word “big.”
By WILL SPITZ  |  May 18, 2007

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Power-surge pop

Peter Bjorn and John, Paradise Rock Club, May 4, 2007
I was expecting a restrained, polite set from the super-hyped Swedish band Peter Bjorn and John.
By WILL SPITZ  |  May 07, 2007

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The hunt for Tim Armstrong

One track at a time
Last fall, Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong posted a letter on the Epitaph Records Web site announcing his plan to give away his solo debut for free on the Internet.
By WILL SPITZ  |  April 30, 2007

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Big-theater blues

Modest Mouse, the Orpheum, April 27, 2007
It was an intense, chaotic moment, one that probably would’ve felt sublime at, say, the Middle East downstairs.
By WILL SPITZ  |  April 30, 2007

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It's Township

The Rumble, Harpers Ferry, April 20, 2007
Ah, the WBCN Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble, the battle of the bands that stokes the local music scene into a conflagration of puerile mudslinging, blind favoritism, and ill-informed conspiracy theory.
By WILL SPITZ  |  April 23, 2007

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Under the influence

In defense of Dr. Dog
Like Ann Coulter or pistachio ice cream, the music of Philadelphia five-piece Dr. Dog seems to be one of those love-it-or-hate-it things.
By WILL SPITZ  |  April 18, 2007
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