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Going on sale, April 7, 2006

The latest news from the concert-ticket trade
Tony Bennett, Tom Jones, Styx and more
By WILL SPITZ  |  April 04, 2006

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Thrash masters

The cathartic saga of Random Acts of Violence
The near-capacity crowd tried to comprehend what it was hearing and seeing: four guys playing their instruments with such ferocity and technical proficiency that it was almost too much to take.
By WILL SPITZ  |  April 04, 2006

Three-way

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

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Going on sale, March 17, 2006

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Buckcherry, Click Five, Willie Nelson, Cex, and more
By WILL SPITZ  |  March 14, 2006

Smoking Popes

Holy smokes
The recently reunited Smoking Popes absolutely, uh, smoked last Monday night downstairs at the Middle East at their first show in town in “like eight years,” according to frontman Josh Caterer.
By WILL SPITZ  |  March 14, 2006

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Going on sale, March 10, 2006

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Sigur R ós, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Miller, P.O.D., and more
By WILL SPITZ  |  March 08, 2006

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Sumi

Japanese tapas comes to Allston
No one can accuse Allston of lacking a variety of affordable ethnic foods.
By WILL SPITZ  |  March 08, 2006

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Free your ass

George Clinton’s Berklee tutorial
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.
By WILL SPITZ  |  March 08, 2006

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'Paper' chase

Hipsters and hardcore kids shake it at Harpers Ferry
I never thought I’d find myself shaking a tail feather with total abandon to ’80s dance music at a packed-to-the-gills Harpers Ferry. (Yup: that Harpers Ferry, the jam-band capital of Greater Boston.)
By WILL SPITZ  |  March 02, 2006

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Going on sale, March 3, 2006

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
The Strokes, Avenged Sevenfold, Pinback and more
By WILL SPITZ  |  March 01, 2006

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Going on sale: February 24

  Breaking news in the concert-ticket trade
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jamie Lidell, Subhumans, and more.
By WILL SPITZ  |  February 22, 2006

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Brash menagerie

Animal Collective’s plan for world domination  
“When we’re making a new record, we always think we’re going to have this backlash because it sounds different [from our last one],” says Animal Collective’s Dave Portner (a/k/a Avey Tare) when I reach him at his Brooklyn apartment.
By WILL SPITZ  |  February 15, 2006

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Dance Factory

Soul-le-lu-jah spearheads a classic R&B revival  
Sean Quinn can’t dance — ironic, given that he’s the man in charge of what might be the best little DIY soul-funk-R&B dance night in town.
By WILL SPITZ  |  February 09, 2006

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Going on sale: February 10

  Breaking news in the concert-ticket trade
Franz Ferdinand & Death Cab, Thursday, Alkaline Trio, Neko Case, and more.
By WILL SPITZ  |  February 09, 2006

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P.O.S

AUDITION | Rhymesayers
Stefon Alexander grew up a ’frohawked outsider, one of the only black kids involved in the Minneapolis punk scene in the mid to late ’90s.
By WILL SPITZ  |  February 07, 2006

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Catfish Haven

PLEASE COME BACK | Secretly Canadian
Ever wonder what it would sound like if the hypothetical lovechild of Sam Cooke and Janis Joplin wrote and sang a souped-up 21st-century version of his daddy’s “Bring It On Home to Me”?
By WILL SPITZ  |  February 07, 2006

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Going on sale: February 3

Breaking news in the concert-ticket trade
Coming soon: James Blunt, the Cult, Jenny Lewis, and more.
By WILL SPITZ  |  February 04, 2006

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Clearly Canadian

New mpfrees from a not-so-secret source
The indie label Secretly Canadian, which is secretly based in Indiana and has put out a number of stellar releases by the likes of Songs: Ohia and Scout Niblett, got a publicity boost when Antony and the Johnsons’ SC release I Am a Bird Now won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize last year.
By WILL SPITZ  |  January 25, 2006

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Frank Smith + Beat Awfuls

Lots and lots of the Lot Six
The holiday spirit was still going strong a week ago Tuesday night on Newbury Street.
By WILL SPITZ  |  January 18, 2006

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Celebration

Siren songs
Katrina Ford, Karen O-ish with bangs in her face, shimmied, shook, shuddered, and shrieked both on and off stage.
By WILL SPITZ  |  January 13, 2006
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