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Play by play: November 6, 2009

Boston theater listings, November 6, 2009
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  November 04, 2009

Play by play: October 30, 2009

Plays around town
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  October 28, 2009
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Hip-hop from Hell

Horrorcore salutes Ice Cube and Alice Cooper
Depraved hip-hop is the biggest thing to hit trailer-trash America since sliced meds.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 29, 2009
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Hip-hop is dead

. . . or undead, rather — just ask Zombie Death Squad
Depraved hip-hop is the biggest thing to hit trailer-trash America since sliced meds — and not just in redneck pockets, where rap music hardly reached before, but in suburban enclaves where acts like Twiztid and Tech N9ne sell out shows with ease.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 30, 2009
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Awake! Awake!

Sleep No More brings Macbeth to Brookline
Sleep No More , the second entry in the American Repertory Theater’s mini-season of revisionist Shakespeare, is the least orthodox production of Macbeth you’re likely to see. In fact, it’s linked to Macbeth as much by poetic allusion as by narrative — which is to say that it’s a little of both.
By STEVE VINEBERG  |  October 21, 2009
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Brute forces

Mastodon, High on Fire, and Dethklok lead metal’s latest charge
When you get down to it, most music is an attempt to create auditory allegories for our life experiences, whether they’re joyous Maypole dervishes or nightmarish St. Vitus’ dances of doom.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  October 21, 2009
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Baroness | Blue Record

Relapse (2009)
For a band of ultra-prosaic album titlers, Baroness are big thinkers when it comes to their music.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  October 14, 2009
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Weather reports

Landscape nostalgia, plus climate, the nature of community, and drawing show #21
One of the great themes in America is nostalgia for the "good old days," which flame into being and then fade into the distance.
By GREG COOK  |  October 09, 2009
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Chaos theory

Health rescue rock from its riffage
Health are a rock band composed of four earnest and ambitious Los Angelinos.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  September 16, 2009
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Send in the clowns

The wacky worlds of Michael Jackson and Ozzy Osbourne
The New York Post got to resurrect its priceless "Wacko Jacko" headline. Barbara Walters scored Super Bowl-level ratings without having to lift a pretty little finger. And Michael Jackson, well, no matter how you slice it, he got screwed royally.
By MATT ASHARE  |  July 02, 2009
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Ship, ahoy!

Pigboat proves metal can Float
Pigboat are not nu metal, or speed metal, or death metal, or glam metal, or any of the other metals, really.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  April 15, 2009
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Interview: Witch

Less weed, more speed
SONGS FOR THE DEAF AT AS220, COURTESY OF WITCH
By CHRIS CONTI  |  February 18, 2009
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Review: The Bad Plus's For All I Care

Heads Up (2009)
On each of their previous albums, the Bad Plus let it be known they owed as much to classic rock and pop as to prog jazz.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  January 27, 2009
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Rockers moonlighting with non-rock producers

. . . or are we dancey?
The Killers first worked with Stuart Price on a dance remix of their hit “Mr. Brightside” — and so far, this blend of rock-band brawn and electro-dance bliss has worked smashingly.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  January 20, 2009
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The Killers go through some new motions

Action steps
When you get down to it, the world of rock and pop is really about fantasy and illusion.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  January 20, 2009
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Get around to it

Belated props to Arthur Russell
You would not guess, listening to his music, that Arthur Russell grew up in Oskaloosa, Iowa. In fact you might not guess that he came from anywhere.  
By RICHARD BECK  |  October 25, 2008
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Good fellows

Brian Blade and company help blaze jazz’s newest path
The jazz tide is shifting once again.  
By JON GARELICK  |  October 20, 2008
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It takes a pillage

Amon Amarth lead the Viking death-metal pack
When I finally get Amon Amarth vocalist Johan Hegg on the phone, I feel as if I’d woken a giant.  
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  October 15, 2008
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Baby fights the blues

Juliana Hatfield is still standing. How a hometown guitar hero dodged the bullet, and then wrote a book about it
Evening slants in over the spires of Harvard, and Juliana Hatfield is watching me across the table.
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 17, 2008
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Nine-step program

The best pedals ever to happen to rock music
The history of rock, as a technical story, is a mix of skilled craftsmen and total doofuses sticking their fingers in wall sockets over and over.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  September 08, 2008

Murder Weapon, Werewolves on Wheels, Lead Stiletto

Music seen, Geno's, August 28, 2008
Despite a thin crowd, each band was in fine form.
By DAN CLARK  |  September 05, 2008
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Eyes for others

Dr. Lovemonkey
If your husband denies checking out other women, it might be time for you to blatantly check out other men while in his presence.
By DR. LOVEMONKEY  |  August 13, 2008
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The numbers of the beast

Iron Maiden at Comcast Center, June 20, 2008
As a million fingers air-guitared frantically, Maiden put on a fireballing motherfucker of a show.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  June 26, 2008
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Throwing dice, taking names

The Sword is +20 awesome
Let’s say your band are named the Sword, your albums have titles like Age of Winters and Gods of the Earth , and your latest single is “Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians.” Would these count as hazardous levels of irony?
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  May 12, 2008
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Dead Child

Attack | Quarterstick/Touch and Go
From the first monster-metal riff and warlock scream, it’s pleasantly obvious where Dead Child are headed on their full-length debut.
By MATT ASHARE  |  April 29, 2008

Lord of the thighs

Aerosmith should throw in the towel
This article originally appeared in the March 15, 1983 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By DOUG SIMMONS  |  March 11, 2008
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Reverence without pity

Black Mountain spin the past into vital modern rock
Unless you actually think Ozzy Osbourne still has some fire in his belly, you can’t help but argue that Black Mountain will be the most exciting rock show to come to Portland in some time.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  February 20, 2008

Portland scene report: November 16, 2007

Sibilance starts now
We here in Portland know more about alt-country/indie pop than those poseurs in NYC.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  November 14, 2007

Chronicle of a death foretold

Joy Division were rooted in grim finality. Now, through a series of new books, CDs, and films, the band has found new life.
What a difference a death makes.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 24, 2007
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Difficult people

Tom Perrotta keeps his characters company through the bumps and bumbles of American life
As a reader of fiction, at this point in life I’m sort of in my late Imperial phase — a sensationalist, easily distracted, with a vulgar appetite for brilliance.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 03, 2007

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