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Farm Aid crops up in Massachusetts
In the hegemony of mid-’80s mega-rock-star benefits, Farm Aid stands as the American blue-collar uncle to Live Aid’s international whiz kid.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | September 16, 2008

Lucky, beautiful, and, now, holy

Rev Run runs straight
He was the king of rock, there was no higher . The sucker MCs, they should call him sire .
By JIM SULLIVAN | August 20, 2008

Blues juniors

Back Door Slam rejuvenate a British tradition
A guitar howls through the streets of downtown Chattanooga just as the sun begins to set, pealing out an elaborately improvised solo pasted onto the end of “Red House.”
By TED DROZDOWSKI | August 19, 2008

Fans cheer; earth weeps

Radiohead at Comcast Center, August 13, 2008
It’s a bummer that the four-plus hours I spent in my car feeling guilty about barfing loads of carbon into the air is most salient in my mind, because, as always, Radiohead delivered an awe-inspiring show.
By WILL SPITZ | August 19, 2008

Photos: Radiohead in Boston

August 14, 2008 at the Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA

By CARINA MASTROCOLA | August 16, 2008

Fight club

Why Bostonians can’t get their smackdown fix
It’s Saturday night and I’m looking for a fight.
By JONATHAN SEITZ | July 23, 2008

Here we go, yo

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

The 11th Annual Muzzle Awards

Silencing free speech
Freedom of expression may be guaranteed by the Constitution. But it’s an idea we have to fight for every day.
By DAN KENNEDY | July 05, 2008

Slideshow: Iron Maiden in Boston (2008)

June 20, 2008 at the Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA
Rev. Aaron photographs Iron Maiden, live at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA, on June 20, 2008.
By REV. AARON | July 25, 2008

Rush survive 40 years on rock’s very edge

‘Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone’
“When we started out, we were just kids playing the kind of music that we liked,” says bassist/singer Geddy Lee.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | June 09, 2008

Newspapers censor Bono’s ‘fucking’ gaffe

The FCC’s ‘broadcast indecency’ rules: Still, well, bullshit
Why does our ostensibly “free” press insist on acting like prudes or cowards when reporting stories for which it’s vital that readers learn someone said “fuck” rather than an undefined “expletive”?
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | March 12, 2008

Comcast plays dirty

Seat-fillers "bused in" for net neutrality hearings
The Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School was full past capacity Monday morning.
By MIKE MILIARD | February 26, 2008

Movies from outer space

From the tsars to the stars at Harvard
Our new-found DVD-ness and cable-TV luxury notwithstanding, movies have always been a public medium, a spatial experience we share in the theater and a topical experience we share in the culture at large.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | November 30, 2006

Canadian trailer trash chug 420 IPA

Export quality
Trailer Park Boys , a cult-hit Canadian mockumentary about mobile-home living, will feature scenes about Maine in its upcoming seventh season on cable TV north of the border.
By LISA CRAIG | October 26, 2006

Good times at the U

Sports blotter: "You don't come into the OB" edition
Remember when the University of Miami was an unbeatable football team? Watch the brawl (YouTube)
By MATT TAIBBI | October 18, 2006

Why must I be a teenager in love?

Degrassi and South of Nowhere put the dirt back in teen soaps
Hysterical teenagers don’t edit their journals to make them sound less like life. Neither does Degrassi . A tribute to the couples of Degrassi (YouTube) Teen screams: five other shows that pushed the envelope. By Ryan Stewart
By SHARON STEEL | October 04, 2006

Jeff Cohen on the weird and disturbing world of CNN, Fox, and MSNBC

Cable nit
In his new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media , Jeff Cohen writes about his years with cable news channels as a pilgrim who’s returned from a strange and hostile land.
By DAN KENNEDY | September 18, 2006

Off Center

Oliver Stone’s trite take on 9/11
The result is emotional pornography not unlike that produced by cable stations when they pump up the “human” angle of catastrophe for higher ratings. Watch the trailer for World Trade Center (QuickTime) Feel-good movie of the summer: Oliver Stone: from the Hollywood crackpot of JFK to the Republican sellout of World Trade Center. By Peter Keough
By PETER KEOUGH | August 09, 2006

Global Murder

Plus, can Healey speak for herself?
Forget the Greens and Libertarians. It’s the Couch-Potato Party that will be the next alternative force in Massachusetts politics.
By JOHN CARROLL | August 03, 2006

Tuned out

A guide to surviving High School Musical
Disney’s tweenpop smash is now the fastest selling TV movie on DVD, ever. Here’s five reasons not to hate the most disgusting show on television.
By CARLY CARIOLI | June 02, 2006

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