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Say it ain't so, Joe

Breaking: Biden resigns the vice-presidency amid Wentzgate scandal
Breaking: Biden resigns the vice-presidency amid Wentzgate scandal
By DAVID THORPE | November 14, 2008

The (other) British invasion

Five great bands from UK blues’ back pages

By TED DROZDOWSKI | August 19, 2008

Sailing the brooding waters of the Baltic Sea
Those of us desperate to escape the singles-saturation our MP3 existence has thrust upon the modern musical landscape and return to album rock now have a band we can get behind — the Baltic Sea.
By SAM PFEIFLE | July 30, 2008

The call of the wild

Wolf Parade get instinctual
It’s not easy being in a band whose two primary songwriters have quite different ideas about how to write an indie-rock song.
By BEN WESTHOFF | July 28, 2008

Bred in the bone

Joe Perry’s kids get their rocks off in TAB the Band
Sometimes the apples don’t fall far from the tree.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 18, 2008

Goings and comings

Copper Pocket, L-Ski, Sick Electric, and the Bob Enos bash
At the Living Room last week, a healthy gaggle turned out to bid their goodbyes to Copper Pocket, a power-pop trio out of URI that is headed to Austin, Texas.
By BOB GULLA | March 05, 2008

Pretty cheesy

Any way you prepare it

By MATT JONES | February 27, 2008

Sound Czech

Tom Stoppard fuses the history and the music in Rock ’n’ Roll
Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll begins in 1968 in an English garden, where a piper perched atop an ivied wall is serenading a stretched-out blonde flower child.
By CAROLYN CLAY | November 13, 2007

We're all the Hold Steady

Fans’ notes on the band that’s sharing joy and changing lives, one gig at a time
When’s the last time you fell so hard for a band you drove 339 miles — alone — to see them?
By LOU PAPINEAU | October 17, 2007

Portland scene report: July 20, 2007

Silbilance starts now
The Rattlesnakes are a great new three-piece indie outfit.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | July 18, 2007

June tunes

From Beastie Boys to the White Stripes and more
Mark Twain once observed that it’s “better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.”
By MATT ASHARE | June 25, 2007

Mary Weiss

Dangerous Game | Norton
“I don’t write hits,” sings Mary Weiss on her first — at 58 — solo album.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | May 18, 2007

Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Live at the Fillmore East 1970 | Reprise
Neil Young was starting his transition from pop melodist to free-ranging noisemaker when he played these songs at New York City’s most famous rock hall on a bill with the Steve Miller Band and Miles Davis.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | December 11, 2006

Long live rock

The Who, TD Banknorth Garden, December 2, 2006
Pete Townshend — slightly hunched and dripping sweat, the words “teenage wasteland” projected on a screen behind him — hit the last guitar chord of the Who’s anthem of unrepentant youthful rebellion and pride, “Baba O’Riley,” and stepped to the microphone. Slideshow: The Who at TD Banknorth Garden, December 2, 2006
By TED DROZDOWSKI | December 04, 2006