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Interview: Crooked X

Your New Favorite Teenage Rock N Roll High School Metal Music Machine
Before I climb onto the enormo tour bus of Oklahoma modern rockers Crooked X, I meet up with them at a Dunkin' Donuts, and witness their drummer, Boomer, ask his road manager, with a straight face, if they have Egg McMuffins here.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 07, 2009

Boston-based Beat Circus reveals southern roots

Beat Circus's Brian Carpenter returns to his roots
Multi-instrumentalist and Beat Circus patriarch Brian Carpenter has made his share of escapist music, but he's also written dozens of songs that confront real life.

By: BARRY THOMPSON | January 07, 2009

Fleecing, stealing, shilling, and sucking music

The Big Hurt: Music news in brief
Over the busy holiday season, a tremendous wealth of worthless music-news tidbits slipped through the cracks, unnoticed by a lethargic, goose-sated America.

By: DAVID THORPE | January 06, 2009

Macrotones, 11 strong

The Macrotones find strength in numbers
De La Soul believe that three is the magic number. My college girlfriend thought it was 55, not counting guys she only blew.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | January 06, 2009

Raveonettes switch it up

The Raveonettes change (for a change)
Anyone familiar with Wagner's œuvre with the Raveonettes (who come to the Paradise next Thursday) should be surprised by the idea that, having created something awesome, he's ready to move on to something different.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 06, 2009

DJ Martyn on tour

Martyn at Good Life; Infinity Window at Butcher Shoppe
Although he lives in suburban DC — a few thousand miles and an ocean away from dubstep ground zero in London — producer Martijn Deykers (a/k/a MARTYN) was one of the genre's pivotal figures of 2008.

By: SUSANNA BOLLE | January 06, 2009

2008 Listravaganza Part 2

The lighter side of music in 2008
Everything you wanted to know about the year in music, in tidy lists of 10.

By: BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 05, 2009

The year ahead in jazz

Joshua Redman, Cassandra Wilson, Lionel Loueke, and more
One of the most hotly anticipated concerts of the season will be JOSHUA REDMAN's "Double Trio" concert at Berklee on January 22.

By: JON GARELICK | January 05, 2009

The year ahead in national pop music

Diminishing returns in 2009
I've always liked the idea of there being some weight to the "nines," meaning: if you're a year, and you're going to perch yourself at the very edge of a decade, you'd better be ready to represent.

By: MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 31, 2008

Concerts coming in early 2009

Winter 2009's got plenty in store
If freezing your ass off builds character, music fans should prepare to develop way too much character over the next few months.

By: MICHAEL BRODEUR AND CHRIS FARAONE | December 30, 2008

The year ahead in local pop

Local CDs to help you make it until spring
Ah, wintertime. It's dark, it's cold, it seems like you might lose a few extremities to frostbite on the way to the club. You know what? Just go for it.

By: MATT PARISH | December 29, 2008

The Big Hurt: A look ahead

At the dawn of a new millennium, pop cries out for innovation
I'm sometimes pigeonholed as some kind of Negative Nelly: a pessimist, a cynic, a grouch , even.

By: DAVID THORPE | December 29, 2008

Interview: The Damned's Captain Sensible

The Damned carry on
"School teachers and lawyers come along to see the Damned. . .and they want to see really bad behavior."

By: JIM SULLIVAN | December 30, 2008

The year in music, in tidy lists of 10

An absolute glut of cruelly reductive Top 10 lists from our dedicated staff of tirelessly enthusiastic writers
We are not at all sick of bands with animal names yet and seem to have a soft spot for Erykah Badu that we kept very hush about all year.

By: BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 31, 2008

Year in Review: Music in Auto-tune

The year in Auto-Tune

By: RICHARD BECK | December 24, 2008

Year in Music was eeh

Maybe next year, music
In the annals of American pop history, 2008 will surely go down as a year when our nation had more-important shit to worry about than music.

By: DAVID THORPE | December 24, 2008

Year in Local Pop: Local motion

Our 2008 playlist
Bands come and go, but songs stick around.

By: MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 22, 2008

The Year in Jazz

By: JON GARELICK | December 22, 2008

Year in National Pop: New attitudes

Are we fated to pretend?

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 22, 2008

Holiday cheer in the Milky Way

Rock bands, throat singer, and a partridge in a pear tree
There's not a whole lot of Yuletide-themed activity on Boston's musical fringes this year, and that makes the holiday rock show at the Milky Way this Sunday all the more welcome.

By: SUSANNA BOLLE | December 19, 2008

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