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By PHOENIX STAFF | March 17, 2010

The young and the restless

Box Elders break out of the basement
Clayton McIntyre of Box Elders has one of the better "why nothing makes me nervous" stories I've heard.

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 17, 2010

Continental drift

Flying the friendly skies of Air
It's fitting that when I finally get Jean-Benoît Dunckel on the phone, he's just stepped off a plane.

By DANIEL BROCKMAN | March 16, 2010

The Big Hurt: Now hiring

Music news in brief
If you're a musician looking to break into the big leagues, now's your chance.

By DAVID THORPE | March 16, 2010

The Whitehaus spares its carpets with Blastfest 3
On a sleepy side street in JP sits the Whitehaus, where, on a recent Saturday evening, muffled electronic gurgles and drones pulse from the basement like the sounds of some secret sci-fi laundromat. It's an experimental electronics night anchored by Boston synth overlord Keith Fullerton Whitman, but it could be any number of scenes that the Whitehaus has welcomed into its living room over the past four years.

By MATT PARISH | March 17, 2010

Sunderland smoothies

Field Music are ready to soft-rock
"We're two brothers trying to entertain ourselves and have a laugh in the studio," says Peter Bowens. "We have to pretend to be rock musicians."

By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 17, 2010

Sunderland Rock City

Field Music's fertile home turf
Whatever it is about post-industrial English cities that lends itself to credible rock music, Sunderland's got it in spades.

By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 17, 2010

25 Hip-Hop acts to see at SXSW 2010

The best boom-bap on tap in Austin
As usual, I've got you covered.

By CHRIS FARAONE | March 12, 2010

Bands of brothers

'Hislopalooza' is a family affair
I'm living the most local life I've ever lived right now in Dorchester," says Chris Hislop, bespectacled guitarist in the long-running Boston band Piles.

By MATT PARISH | March 10, 2010

PHX @ SXSW!

The Phoenix heads from Boston to Austin
Don't be so shocked if the coming week brings with it not just a stretch of balmier weather but also a palpable decrease in the douche point. That's because the vast majority of the music industry has up and JetBlued 2000 miles south to Austin for SXSW (a/k/a South by Southwest).

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 17, 2010

Rapper Sam Adams now on tap

Licensed to Ale
Something equally remarkable and unprecedented happened this past week: a virtually unknown white Cambridge MC named Sam Adams landed in the top hip-hop spot on iTunes with his debut EP, Boston's Boy .

By CHRIS FARAONE | March 12, 2010

Pluck and determination

Joanna Newsom's masterful Have One On Me
People have always thought that Joanna Newsom was indulgent. At first, it was about her voice — the kind of nasal yelp that usually keeps a performer from getting on stage at all. Then, on her second album, it was about her vocabulary and her instrumentation.

By RICHARD BECK | March 09, 2010

The Big Hurt: Clench and release(1)

The week in awful press releases
Press-release time again!

By DAVID THORPE | March 09, 2010

Message points

Christian Scott's political science, Anita Coelho's connections
Instrumental music isn't very dependable at conveying specific non-musical subject matter.

By JON GARELICK | March 09, 2010

Sonny, Pat, and all the cats

Names you know and names you should
The primo jazz event of the spring will be SONNY ROLLINS 's concert at Symphony Hall on April 18 (bso.org). The great master saxophonist and peerless improviser often hits town in April, and this time it's to kick off his 80th-birthday tour. Whew.

By JON GARELICK | March 09, 2010

Spring clearance

Discriminatin' picks for the frugal music snob
I've seen the best music snobs of my generation destroyed by downloading — instead of savoring full albums the way one might enjoy a vintage claret, they're slamming down random shots of bands with stupid names, passing out, and blanking on what they heard the night before.

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 09, 2010

Past perfection

The radiant, repressed pop of Neon Indian
Everybody please stop calling Alan Palomo "nostalgic." When I check in with him last Friday, the dude seems far more interested in whatever is on the horizon than whatever's in the past.

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 05, 2010

The other side of heavy

Harvey Milk scramble your metal detector
Loving heavy rock is a two-step process. Step one is easy: you hear something heavier than you've ever heard before, and you realize, "This is my thing." Step two is a little trickier: you wonder, "What is 'heavy'?" If you can accept the idea that a certain set of limitations leads to ultimate heaviosity, then — kudos! — you are a metalhead.

By DANIEL BROCKMAN | March 02, 2010

Dee's so fine

The girl-group delights of the Deelinquents
Jenny Dee & the Deelinquents co-founders Jen D'Angora (the Dents, the Downbeat 5) and Ed Valauskas (Gravel Pit, the Gentlemen) won't come right out and say that they had ambitions of ever forming a '60s-style girl group — they won't even come out and say they're married.

By JONATHAN DONALDSON | March 02, 2010

The Big Hurt: Lightfoot lives!

Plus Weezy tweets and Mayer backpedals
Last week, the world was gripped in the terror of a GORDON LIGHTFOOT death scare when a realistic-looking Twitter obit was picked up by several Canadian papers.

By DAVID THORPE | March 02, 2010

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SXSW 2010 (Saturday): Vivian Girls Acoustic Set
On The Download | March 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM

Fashawn Scalps the Mohawk; Dubb Sicks is "The Trashman"
March 20, 2010 at 2:25 PM

Review: Henry Rollins at the Somerville Theatre | March 17, 2010
March 20, 2010 at 2:02 PM

SXSW Thur, Fri: Le Loup, Beach Fossils, Ty Segal, Bear In Heaven
March 20, 2010 at 6:52 AM

SXSW 2010 (Thursday) Video: Thee Oh Sees Play On a Bridge
March 20, 2010 at 3:15 AM