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Eat it, High School Musical!

Amanda Palmer and Lexington High take on Neutral Milk Hotel
It's a Thursday afternoon at Lexington High, and 20 or so students have congregated in a music room surrounded by racks of folding chairs and sporting a sleek black Steinway baby grand.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  May 06, 2009

Play by Play: April 24, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Theater around town
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 22, 2009
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The electric company

The Builders and the Butchers plug in, take off
We all know how in 1965, at the Newport Folk Festival, the previously all-acoustic Bob Dylan took the stage with an electric guitar, plugged in, enraged fans, and destroyed the folk-music scene forever.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  February 02, 2009
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Fun Funeral Rite

Amanda Palmer at the Paradise, November 24, 2008
Now it can be revealed: Amanda Palmer has a stage mom.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  December 02, 2008
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Local influence

WFNX is keeping it close to home
In a day when so much radio seems less and less local, WFNX remains in touch.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  December 03, 2008
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Fast-breaking music

You heard it here first
WFNX has always been a maverick radio station.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 03, 2008
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A fest for the brain

The triumphant second coming of Brainwaves
Before there was Pitchfork, Stereogum, Popmatters, or almost any other music site you can think of, there was Brainwashed.
By SUSANNA BOLLE  |  November 19, 2008
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Interview: Amanda Palmer

At home with the Dresden Doll's solo joint
So it’s the eve of the release of local sensation and Dresden Dolls vocalist/pianist Amanda Palmer’s solo debut album, and I’m sitting in her bric-a-brac-filled South End apartment drinking herbal tea.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  September 25, 2008
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New England product, 2008

Vets and newbs vie for your vote
It’s hard enough for bands to get any attention from their local public without some pesky election coming in and hogging the spotlight.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  September 11, 2008

Fight song

Letters to the Boston editor, July 25, 2008
Your total inability to recognize deserving candidates has me . . . amused?
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  July 23, 2008
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All Dolled up

Amanda Palmer and the Boston Pops, Symphony Hall, June 19, 2008
Last night, Amanda Palmer kicked off this season of the Boston Pops EdgeFest.
By RACHEL HOLLIDAY SMITH  |  June 20, 2008
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The Dresden Dolls

No, Virginia | Roadrunner
No, Virginia ranks with Elvis Costello’s Taking Liberties as a B-sides/leftovers album that turns out to be more fun and more revealing than a thought-out official release.
By BRETT MILANO  |  May 27, 2008

Hot and cold

A revved-up Bang Camaro and techno Freezepop lead the way
Bands and artists do have a way of coming and going here in Boston.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 07, 2008

Winning losers

Stand up for your write(-ins)
Every last one of you who votes in our Best Music Poll is a treasure; but blessed are those who write-in.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  May 07, 2008
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Counter culture

Record Store Day at Newbury Comics
Like an e-mail from a long-lost ex, Record Store Day was designed to remind shoppers around the world that record stores still exist.
By LUKE O’NEIL  |  April 23, 2008
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Boston music news: March 14, 2008

Notes on Black Fortress of Opium, Embrionic, and some reissued T-shirts
The psychedelic goth trio Black Fortress of Opium are moving up in the world.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  March 10, 2008
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A winning combination

Hot Stove, Cool Music at the Paradise Rock Club, January 5-6
Fans of the Sox and of local rock once had at least one thing in common: a big inferiority complex.
By MATT ASHARE  |  January 08, 2008
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Boston music news: January 11, 2008

Notes on Beat Circus and Johnny A.
BEAT CIRCUS release their new Dreamland on January 29.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  January 07, 2008
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Star teamz

Ten from Boston’s 2007 pop underground
Mark it, dude: another banner year for the Boston music scene.
By WILL SPITZ  |  December 18, 2007
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Boston, beer, and Bobby Brown

The 20th-Anniversary BMAs
Last weekend at the Orpheum, Bobby Brown was not indicted but inducted.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  December 09, 2007

Amanda Palmer + Jason Webley

Music seen at SPACE Gallery, November 24, 2007
She owned them, and she sold me. I’ve got a new old band to check out.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  November 28, 2007
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Fallout joys

When the Nirvana explosion rocked Boston
In his newly published The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock & Roll , Phoenix contributor Brett Milano explores the evolution of the local music scene.
By BRETT MILANO  |  September 18, 2007
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Rock-and-roll circus

Sxip Shirey's 'Hour of Charm'
“We’ll fuck up a lot, that’s just the way it is,” said the evening’s MC/entertainer, Sxip Shirey, adding that everyone in the crowd should “feel free to fart.”
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  September 18, 2007
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Boston music news: August 10, 2007

Notes on the Dresden Dolls-Aberdeen City connection
The Dresden Dolls played Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” tour this summer.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  August 07, 2007
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Panoramic pop

Cyndi Lauper and "True Colors," Bank of America Pavilion, June, 16, 2007
The Pavilion was P-town for a night.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  June 19, 2007
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Something for everybody

This summer, New England’s music calendar offers everything from Neil Sedaka to Lez Zeppelin
As that great philosopher Brian Wilson once observed, summer means fun.
By BRETT MILANO  |  June 11, 2007
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All dolled up

Yes, Virginia, but there’s more to the local scene than Amanda and Brian
We have seen the face of Boston rock and roll, and it’s got painted-on eyebrows.
By BRETT MILANO  |  June 06, 2007
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Working girl

Amanda Palmer reflects on the Dresden Dolls’ breakthrough year
It’s no surprise that the big local winners in our Best Music Poll tend also to be the hardest working bands and artists.
By MATT ASHARE  |  June 06, 2007
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Playlist: May 25, 2007

Amanda Palmer’s five favorite music books of all time
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991, Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Songwriters on Songwriting, and more.
By AMANDA PALMER  |  May 29, 2007
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Norton Awards go silver

Kudos
The Elliot Norton Awards turned 25 on Monday night — though that’s nothing compared with Norton himself, who lived to be 100.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 23, 2007

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