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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, live at the Middle East Downstairs, September 5, 2009

By JEROME ENO | September 9, 2009

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Middle East Downstairs | September 5, 2009

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Solid foundation
When Big Tall Buildings guitarist Jared Mann sent in a disc of six demos earlier this year, the raw potential behind songs "Natalie" and "Something with a Semicolon" had me dropping monthly emails on him with the subject header "WHERE'S THE ALBUM?"
Best Music Poll 2009: Anything goes
The underground: saved, salvaged, or savaged?
Photos: Arctic Monkeys at Paradise
Photos of the Arctic Monkeys at their Boston stop on their new album, Humbug , tour
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Solid foundation
When Big Tall Buildings guitarist Jared Mann sent in a disc of six demos earlier this year, the raw potential behind songs "Natalie" and "Something with a Semicolon" had me dropping monthly emails on him with the subject header "WHERE'S THE ALBUM?"
Best Music Poll 2009: Anything goes
The underground: saved, salvaged, or savaged?
Photos: Arctic Monkeys at Paradise
Photos of the Arctic Monkeys at their Boston stop on their new album, Humbug , tour
Yo La Tengo | Popular Songs
Yo La Tengo are articulate, thoughtful purveyors of highbrow pop.
Glorious bastards
Few bands could serve as a better case study on the influence of Internet hype on mainstream media and popular acceptance than Deerhunter. Before the band "broke" in early 2007, to a glowing Pitchfork review of their album Cryptograms , the Atlanta four-piece were virtual unknowns nationally.
Fly by night?
For a decade, Eric Johnson's primary songwriting vehicle has been Fruit Bats, but the Portland-via-Chicago singer and multi-instrumentalist has always dipped in and out of other projects — Califone, Vetiver, Ugly Casanova among them.
Photos: Dinosaur Jr. at the Middle East downstairs
Photos of Dinosaur Jr. performing on their 2009 reunion tour
A Place To Bury Strangers | Exploding Head
When it comes to the resurgence of all things shoegaze, only one question remains: how literal do you want it?
Photos: Ra Ra Riot at Paradise Rock Club
Ra Ra Riot on tour to promote their new album, The Rhumb Line
No sleep ’til Brooklyn
There’s a lot to love about Slumberland Records, the DC-born, Oakland-based label that celebrated its 20th anniversary last weekend with sold-out shows in Washington, DC, and Brooklyn.
Photos: Backstage with Ra Ra Riot
Ra Ra Riot backstage at WFNX and the Boston Phoenix's Best Music Poll Concert at City Hall Plaza in Boston on August 1, 2009.
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