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Vital overtones

Five essential Byrne-Eno collaborations
By MICHAEL ATCHISON | November 25, 2008

David Byrne on working with Brian Eno, the new music industry, and his time in Providence
Thirty-four years after forming the legendary band Talking Heads with fellow Rhode Island School of Design students Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, David Byrne returns to the area to perform “The Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno.”
By MICHAEL ATCHISON | November 26, 2008

Severed Heads

David Byrne at the Wang Theatre, October 31, 2008
“This ain’t no CBGB,” David Byrne sang during his late-set dive bomb into “Life During Wartime,” and a glance around the immensely classy premises of the Wang Theatre verified it.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | November 10, 2008

David Byrne and Brian Eno

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today | Self-Released
Everything That Happens is a brilliant addition to a creative partnership that has yielded so much and shouldn’t have taken 27 years to rekindle.
By MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY | August 26, 2008

Remembering a Rhode Island icon

Jefferson Thomas was in the vanguard of the Providence underground
There was never anyone remotely like Jeff Thomas.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | July 30, 2008

Sharp accents

Forro in the Dark and Marta Topferova talk the talk
Boston has its own vital scene of pan-American jazz and folk (hey, Mili Bermejo, Alex Alvear, Sergio Brandão, and everyone at Ryles on Wednesday nights!).
By JON GARELICK | June 30, 2008

For real change, the chattering classes need to take a fall

Phillipe and Jorge
The key word of the moment in America is “change.”
By PHILLIPE + JORGE | January 09, 2008

Chairmen of the boards

Our critics pick the 14 producers with the fattest, meanest beats
Not unlike Swedish, Tagalog, and Esperanto, music is a language, with its own conjugations and (lewdly) dangling participles.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | October 18, 2007

Take it to the streets

Mexican street graphics at MassArt
“¡Sensacional! Mexican Street Graphics" is a funhouse of brilliantly clunky handmade Mexican street art.
By GREG COOK | October 02, 2007

The wit and wonder of Rhode Islandese

Not for nothin’, but you can tahk like a Vo Dilunduh
Just a few weekends ago, I overheard someone describe the Rhode Island accent as “between Boston and New York.”
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | September 05, 2007

Silver lining

Island Moving Co. celebraates its 25th year
“It’s truly a celebration of IMC — the feats and defeats that they’ve gone through,” Bolger reiterated.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | July 10, 2007

Burn, baby, burn

Jason Spooner’s smoldering Flame You Follow
Jason Spooner’s a real easy guy to like.
By SAM PFEIFLE | June 27, 2007

Against interpretation

Hallelujah the Hills get litr’y with it
To file Hallelujah the Hills under “literary rock” would be, according to frontman Ryan Walsh, an insult to literature and an insult to rock. Hallelujah the Hills, "Wave Backwards to Massachusetts" (mp3)
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 12, 2007

Spring steps

Island Moving Co.’s Four Off the Floor
Connor walked around the rehearsal, encouraging the dancers to “think of yourself as a hawk.”
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | May 08, 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

Four chords and frustration

The Thermals, T.T. the Bear's, March 3, 2007
Testament to how commanding the Thermals are live is how they managed to get a crowd at T.T. the Bear’s moving to the point of stage dives.
By JOE BERNARDI | March 05, 2007

Truth and consequences

Al Gore’s graphic disaster movie
For a film consisting mostly of a middle-aged guy pointing to charts and lecturing about complex, controversial, and world-challenging ideas, An Inconvenient Truth makes for a more entertaining thriller than The Da Vinci Code .
By PETER KEOUGH | February 20, 2007

Nu Rave extravaganza

If you're into light sticks
So the New York Times told me the other day that British kids are learning to dance and love again, and I couldn’t be happier.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER | February 13, 2007

Absolute Wilson

Absolutely bewildered
Back in 1991, in the American Repertory Theatre production of When We Dead Awaken , Robert Wilson’s musical based on the dour Henrik Ibsen play, there was a moment when the cast, led by Honey Cole, started a cakewalk line while chanting the play’s title over and over again. Watch the trailer for Absolute Wilson (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | November 29, 2006

Brazil nuts

The return of Os Mutantes
Last winter, word got out that the original members of the notorious and influential Brazilian psych-pop group Os Mutantes were preparing to perform together for the first time in more than 30 years.
By SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON | November 20, 2006

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