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Slideshow: Vintage photos inspire Pattern Is Movement

Pattern Is Movement's latest album inspired by these photos

By PHOENIX WEB STAFF | May 12, 2009

These vintage photos inspired Pattern Is Movement's latest album All Together

Moving pictures: Pattern Is Movement reanimate the past. By Devin King

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The moving pictures
If one way that bands tie themselves to the past is through sonic reference — Fleet Foxes calling forth Crosby, Stills and Nash, or Animal Collective channeling the Grateful Dead — then there's been a number of bands who tie themselves to the past through cultural reference.
Local color
It's become a commonplace to say that "indie" is too vague to mean anything useful, but that's not actually true.
PJ Harvey wants your fucking ass
PJ Harvey's two albums with John Parish are not her best work. (Go ahead and argue it, if you like.) The first, Dance Hall At Louse Point , was a surprise departure from her game-changing To Bring You My Love , an album that sold far less than Madonna records but packed as much cultural impact -- back when rock albums and cultural impact were still on speaking terms.
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The moving pictures
If one way that bands tie themselves to the past is through sonic reference — Fleet Foxes calling forth Crosby, Stills and Nash, or Animal Collective channeling the Grateful Dead — then there's been a number of bands who tie themselves to the past through cultural reference.
Local color
It's become a commonplace to say that "indie" is too vague to mean anything useful, but that's not actually true.
PJ Harvey wants your fucking ass
PJ Harvey's two albums with John Parish are not her best work. (Go ahead and argue it, if you like.) The first, Dance Hall At Louse Point , was a surprise departure from her game-changing To Bring You My Love , an album that sold far less than Madonna records but packed as much cultural impact -- back when rock albums and cultural impact were still on speaking terms.
Best Music Poll 2009 concert
Stream audio of all the bands' performances, watch video highlights, download interview podcasts, browse concert and behind-the-scenes photos, and share your own photos and videos at the Boston Phoenix Web site or WFNX's site.
Photos: Tegan and Sara at the Ames Hotel
Photos from Tegan and Sara's special live acoustic set at the Ames Hotel.
Not teens, not dreams
“The abstract has been very good to us.” I am communicating via e-mail with the two members of Baltimore’s dreamy pop choir Beach House, and to be honest, I don’t know which one of them made that statement.
Photos: The xx at the Paradise
Photos from the xx's Boston stop on their 2010 world tour.
Freelance Whales | Weathervanes
Puritanical indie types unsettled by how well Owl City’s “Fireflies” fits on the new Radio Disney Jams 12 should comfort themselves with the debut from this suitably fringe-dwelling New York combo.
Confidence men (and women)
For a slice of Portland and scattered folks throughout New England and beyond, Spouse are downright seminal indie rockers.
Photos: Mumford and Sons at the Ames Hotel
WFNX presents Mumford and Sons, live session at the Ames Hotel
Iron & Wine | We Kiss Each Other Clean
Sam Beam, the bearded craftsman otherwise known as Iron & Wine, is the very personification of musical consistency.
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