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Brand New live at House of Blues Boston, November 18, 2009 BY CATHERINE LEE

Music Features

Take it to the limit

The minimal maximalism of Fuck Buttons

The end that could have been
Three missed Aerosmith break-up opportunities
Do over
The Feelies pick up their legacy
Mixed media
Ran Blake's Pawnbroker, Sofia Koutsovitis's pan-American roots

Classical

Creationists

Simon Rattle and the BPO, Fabio Luisi and the BSO, John Harbison and Emmanuel Music

Almost
BLO's Carmen, the BSO's Beethoven, Emmanuel Music's Haydn and Schoenberg
Blessings: mixed and otherwise
Boston Baroque’s Amadigi; Opera Boston’s Tancredi; the BSO’s Beethoven; the Borromeo’s Bartók; Brahms from BCMS and BSOCP
In the swim
Guerilla Opera, von Stade’s farewell, the BSO, Handel and Haydn, the BPO, and that Tosca

Live Reviews

Photos: Brand New at House of Blues

Brand New live at House of Blues Boston, November 18, 2009

Human touch
The Jesus Lizard, live at the Paradise Rock Club, November 14, 2009
Photos: The Jesus Lizard at Paradise Rock Club
The Jesus Lizard, live at the Paradise Rock Club, November 14, 2009
Photos: Ballet mécanique
Boston Modern Orchestra Project performs Ballet mécanique, live at Jordan Hall

CD Reviews

Them Crooked Vultures | Them Crooked Vultures

DGC/Interscope (2009)

Heather Woods Broderick | From the Ground
Preservation (2009)
Swollen Members | Armed to the Teeth
Battle Axe (2009)
Annie | Don't Stop
Smalltown Supersound (2009)

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[ 11/20 ] Devendra Banhart & the Grogs + Happy Birthday @ Berklee Performance Center

[ 11/20 ] Saving Abel + Pop Evil + Red @ Wolf Den @ Mohegan Sun

[ 11/20 ] "Only A Cappella" @ St. Andrew's Episcopal Church

[ 11/20 ] Felix Kubin @ Massachusetts College of Art and Design

[ 11/20 ] Jake & Taylor Armerding @ Center for Arts In Natick

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Brand New at House of Blues | November 17
On The Download | November 20, 2009 at 10:59 AM

Start your 2010 engines: Beach House's "Teen Dream" leaks, is awesome
November 19, 2009 at 10:28 AM

What are your favorite alternative albums of the 2000s?
November 19, 2009 at 7:26 AM

VIDEO OF THE WEEK: exclusive Cave In DVD preview
November 18, 2009 at 7:32 AM

UPDATED! VIDEO: Jesus Lizard "Puss" and more live at the Paradise, November 14 2009
November 15, 2009 at 10:09 PM

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Ladies' man
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Review: Planet 51
Even aliens get paranoid sometimes

We're killing the oceans
Is it too late to save the seas that sustain us?

Taxing Catholics
Should the Church lose its exemption?

City Table
Sampling the perks of a recession

Holy terror?
Cutting through the muddled thinking about Nidal Malik Hasan's faith and its role in the Fort Hood shootings

Revisiting the greatest Harvard-Yale game
Crimson Bowl Over Dept.

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