Rock the Bells: Q-Tip reunites A Tribe Called Quest one last time
No Rock the Bells tour would be official without a godlike headliner at the helm.
By CHRIS FARAONE | July 22, 2008

North Shore's snazzy revival of contact

Plus, Gurnet’s Essential Self-Defense
For a Broadway show, contact is closer to Twyla Tharp than George M. Cohan.
By CAROLYN CLAY | June 17, 2008

Portland scene report: May 9, 2008

Sibilance starts now
Portland’s little music scene continues to make strange bedfellows.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 07, 2008

The New Orleans Jazz + Heritage Festival buoys a wounded community
“Is much better! The tourists is coming back !” That was our cab driver from Louis Armstrong Airport into New Orleans — a transplanted Haitian from Jefferson Parish.
By JON GARELICK | May 06, 2008

Cover girls

Cat Power and Shelby Lynne
On Cat Power’s second album of covers, she might be traveling the same territory Elvis did in “Kentucky Rain” — a country road with low clouds on a chill, gray afternoon.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | February 04, 2008

Sideshow and tell

The strange and wonderful world of Baby Dee
She goes by the name Baby Dee, even though she was born in Cleveland in 1953.
By WERNER TRIESCHMANN | January 28, 2008

Couples

Kiki & Herb; Lucia’s Chapters; Our Son’s Wedding
The Eternal Feminine gets a workout this week.
By CAROLYN CLAY | June 19, 2007

Subtle stars

Separating Maxïmo Park from the pack
In the gaps between words are the things that really intrigue me,” sings Maxïmo Park frontman Paul Smith on “Girls Who Play Guitars.”
By NICK SYLVESTER | May 21, 2007

Converging streams

Ailey does Ailey and Tharp, plus Caitlin Corbett
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater offered two milestones in the development of contemporary dance during its annual Celebrity Series visit to the Wang Theatre last week.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 01, 2007

The 100 unsexiest men 2007: 10-1

These guys couldn't turn on a radio

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Elixir of youth

Fountains of Wayne push their expiration date
After 11 seesaw years in the pop music marketplace, Fountains of Wayne return on a fourth studio album as an unparalleled American pop-rock phenomenon.
By FRANKLIN SOULTS | March 27, 2007

L’Allegro, fuss and feathers, and the ICA blues

A year in dance
This year we were looking forward to dance performances at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater in the new ICA.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 20, 2006

Jumpin’ Joel

Movin’ Out is more than just a hit parade
To say that Movin’ Out is more than a jukebox musical only begins to describe its ambitions.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | November 29, 2006

Stepping right up

Twyla’s Dylan in New York; Rhythm at the Regent
Bob Dylan’s music isn’t the first thing you’d think of as the basis for a dance show.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | November 01, 2006

Under the Covers battle

Albums of the year
Rock-and-roll beefs are never quite as delicious as the heat-packing rivalries of their hip-hop brethren. Watch: Battle of the Album Covers
By CAMILLE DODERO | October 19, 2006

Kids who rock

The children of rock stars
The kids are at it again. We’ve got a new one to add to the list of the children of rock stars who want to be rock stars: Alexa Ray Joel, the 20-year-old daughter of Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel.
By MATT ASHARE | October 17, 2006

Hunting the wild Klosterman

Things about the pop-culture writer that are true, things that might be true, and something that isn’t true at all
He is Charles John “Chuck” Klosterman: pop-culture critic, four-time author, celebrity profiler, Esquire columnist, ESPN Page 2 sportswriter, former Spin senior editor, unrepentant Billy Joel fan. And he makes girls spit. Chuck Klosterman reads from Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (mp3)
By CAMILLE DODERO | October 05, 2006

Portland scene report: September 1, 2006

Sibilance
Dominic and the Lucid have finished tracking on the follow up to 2004’s Vinyl Human .
By SIBILANCE | August 30, 2006

Rise up singing

All is not sunshine and daisies for Dead Season, Maine’s best-selling band
When the “Sibilance” column last week reported that Dead Season played to 300 fans in winning its third straight WTOS Battle of the Bands, it’s possible it was simply a matter of reading that number 3000 wrong.
By SAM PFEIFLE | August 30, 2006

Bye-Bye Ric

Rundgren joins Hawkes and Easton in the New Cars
How do you revive a legendary band when the frontman isn’t interested?
By BRETT MILANO | May 31, 2006

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