Phoenix /WFNX Best Music Poll; Shakira; Xiu Xiu
By WILL SPITZ | April 26, 2006
 Matisyahu |
Explosion | June 8 upstairs at the Middle East, Cambridge | $10 | on sale Thursday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | “The Phoenix/WFNX Best Music Poll” with Matisyahu + Atmosphere | May 25 at Bank of America Pavilion, Boston | $32 | on sale Friday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | AFI | June 20 at Avalon, Boston | $23 | on sale Friday at 3 pm | 617.931.2000 | Taking Back Sunday + Angels and Airwaves + Head Automatica | June 24 at the Tweeter Center, Mansfield | $27.50 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | Shakira + Wyclef Jean | September 5 at the TD Banknorth Garden, Boston | $19.50-$85 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | Roger Waters | September 8 at the Tweeter Center, Mansfield | $37-$132 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | Xiu Xiu | October 14 downstairs at the Middle East, Cambridge | $10 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.2000
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- How Jewish is it?
In addition to the usual fare of Messiah and Nutcracker performances and bands dressed up in Santa suits this past holiday season, Boston got an unusually large dose of Jewish culture — far more than the electric menorah in Kenmore Square or the klezmer rendition of “Chanukah Oh Chanukah” on the Holiday Pops program.
- I'm a believer
It was one of those nights: Apollo Sunshine brought basketballs, Atmosphere brought an emo band, and Matisyahu played “King Without a Crown” twice .
- Pop fundamentalism
I keep waiting for Madonna to have her James Frey moment.
- Matisyahu at Harvard
The blizzard was dying down outside Harvard’s Chabad House a week ago Sunday as about 40 students converged for a glatt kosher Chinese dinner and some wise words from the rabbi.
- Gorillaz in the midst
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”?
- Holy nights
The Maccabees, the Holy Temple, the menorah that burned for eight days straight — all of these went unmentioned during JDub Records’ Chanukah celebration at the Paradise on Tuesday night.
- Unorthodox Jews
You won't hear feel-good Chanukah ditties in the style of the Leevees nor any pages out of Matisyahu's prayer book. This is a foul-mouthed, shtick-heavy act inspired by the borscht-belt comics and the seventies-era.
- Hi Octone
Like Paranoid Social Club’s debut before it, As Fast As’ first record for Octone Records will be pretty familiar for the band’s local fans
- Police profile
One of these days, in a British crime movie, there will appear a gangland boss with a fetish for the Police.
- Stop the world
To say Apollo Sunshine have skyrocketed to success would be stretching the temptation to equate the Berklee-bred band’s hard-earned accolades with some sort of stratospheric journey.
- Wicked games
There was a time, not that long ago, when the two-or-three-day rock-festival experience was reserved for the Brits.
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