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Rock relaunched

Orbit resume their aborted mission
Jeff Robbins is something of a rock star — just not the kind who plays Super Bowl halftime shows or collects Grammys.
By MATT ASHARE  |  June 02, 2008
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He loves the ’80s

M83 recaptures your youth
“My relationship to the music of the ’80s is very genuine. There’s no irony to it.”
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  May 28, 2008
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The Big Hurt: Pied-pipers lead innocent teens to emo cult Valhalla!

Music news in brief
As a connoisseur and frequent purveyor of shitty journalism, I have to applaud the Mail for its tremendous gusto.
By DAVID THORPE  |  June 02, 2008
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A Peapod grows in Portland

A young label sports sonic wisdom
Harrity’s albums sound like the work of an invisible hand, and it’s apparent that he likes it that way.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  May 07, 2008

Other peas in the pod

In addition to the Brown Bird and Dead End Armory albums here are two recent Peapod releases

By SAM PFEIFLE  |  May 07, 2008

Oddballs and noisemakers

Looking back 20 years to the Pixies' Surfer Rosa and the beginning of the Best Music Poll
Twenty years ago, the American Top 40 was nothing like Boston’s live music scene.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  May 07, 2008
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Funny business

As the AltCom Festival arrives at the Somerville Theatre, we look at the roots of the indie comedy boom.
“Ashlee Simpson’s new album sold so poorly,” snorted the headline on Yahoo! this past week, that “it was beaten by a comedy album.”
By MIKE MILIARD  |  May 08, 2008

Hot and cold

A revved-up Bang Camaro and techno Freezepop lead the way
Bands and artists do have a way of coming and going here in Boston.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 07, 2008

Scoring points

Tiger Saw show some animation
A tap-dancer, a magician, and an eight-piece horn section. According to a recent Web-site missive from Tiger Saw, the latest incarnation of the Newburyport-based indie collective includes all three.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 09, 2008

David Dondero

Music seen at SPACE Gallery, April 12, 2008
David Dondero might be one of indie-rock’s unsung heroes.
By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN  |  April 16, 2008

Portland scene report: April 11, 2008

Sibilance starts now
There’s a new supergroup in town and they’re wasting zero time in releasing their debut disc.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  April 09, 2008
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Further + Further

Roy Davis pushes forward with the Dregs
Roy Davis has made a number of good choices since the release of his promising debut disc, Grey Town , in early 2007.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  April 09, 2008

Cult Maze

Music seen at Geno’s + SPACE Gallery, April 4 + April 6, 2008
Early on in Cult Maze’s all-too-brief tenure as Portland’s best indie-rock band — probably when they were still called The Funeral — I offered to buy Joshua Loring a beer before his set.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  April 09, 2008
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Bonus rounds

Elvis Costello, the Lemonheads, and Whiskeytown get the deluxe treatment
How long before this year’s This Year’s Model becomes last year’s This Year’s Model ?
By MATT ASHARE  |  April 08, 2008
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Spring cleaning

A grab bag of discs buried by winter snow
Some find it remarkable, but it is nevertheless true that far more local CDs are released than there are weeks in a year.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  March 26, 2008
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Always a bridesmaid

But Kathleen Edwards steps forward on her third album
Asking for Flowers is the slickest album yet from Kathleen Edwards — the Canadian alt-country songwriter frequently heralded as the next Lucinda Williams — and her most raw.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  March 19, 2008

Wilderness + Micah Blue Smaldone

Music seen at SPACE Gallery, March 12, 2008
Wilderness returned to SPACE Gallery on Wednesday, after two years of skipping town on us.
By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN  |  March 19, 2008
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Rock-and-roll heart

Stephen Malkmus gets Jicky with it
Stephen Malkmus: expert Scrabble player, The Wire enthusiast, husband, father, indie-rock demigod.
By WILL SPITZ  |  March 18, 2008
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Coverings

Jeffrey Lewis’s Crass, and Dirty Projectors’ Black Flag
If the title teen of Juno can dismiss Sonic Youth as “just noise,” what would a representative of a generation for whom quiet is the new loud make of the even harsher sonic barrages of first-wave punk?
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  March 10, 2008

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