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By CARLY CARIOLI  |  October 08, 2008
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Vicious squircles

The Big Hurt: grave errors and virtual disappointments
Someone has made off with Ian Curtis's gravestone.
By DAVID THORPE  |  July 15, 2008
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War of independents

The Independent Film Festival of Boston fights for freedom of the screens
The IFFB is determined to wrest cinematic freedom from the imperial power of the Hollywood studios.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  April 22, 2008

Cult Maze

Music seen at Geno’s + SPACE Gallery, April 4 + April 6, 2008
Early on in Cult Maze’s all-too-brief tenure as Portland’s best indie-rock band — probably when they were still called The Funeral — I offered to buy Joshua Loring a beer before his set.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  April 09, 2008
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Three of a kind

Editors, Louis XIV, and Hot Hot Heat at Orpheum Theatre, January 19, 2008
Even with two good support acts, the British foursome weren’t quite able to fill the Orpheum.
By VICTORIA WELCH  |  January 22, 2008

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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Pleasures still unknown

Conventions take Control of Ian Curtis
Ian Curtis (Sam Riley) of the Manchester band Joy Division wrote songs that evoke, with incantatory inevitability, terror, delight, and ecstasy.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 24, 2007

Disc by disc

The new Joy Division catalogue
The new Joy Division catalogue
By MATT ASHARE  |  October 24, 2007
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War zones

Fall films face terror at home and abroad
The party’s over. Time for the lessons to begin.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  September 12, 2007
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Post-punk pantheon

Daydream Nation  tops our list of 10 landmark albums that made indie rock
They were, by definition, misfits.
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  July 16, 2007
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Rock therapy

Aberdeen City prepare for a national breakthrough
'Some people have songs about ex-girlfriends. We don’t have songs like that.’ Aberdeen City, "God is Going to Get Sick of Me" (mp3)
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  September 12, 2006
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The nostalgia game

Covers too bitchin’ for a ghetto blaster
Like, gag us with a spoon already!
By SHARON STEEL  |  August 22, 2006
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Hard target

The impenetrable pop of Scott Walker
Critic Langdon Winner once wrote that anyone who attempts to listen to Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica has two obstacles to overcome: the music and the lyrics. Scott Walker, "Jesse" (RealPlayer)
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 09, 2006
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Designer imitation

Editors at the Paradise, July 30, 2006
No doubt their mimeographed postpunk is about as fresh as a tray of Shaw’s sushi. And yet Editors are well aware that they can be past expiration date and still come through with the upper hand. Slideshow: Editors at the Paradise, July 30, 2006
By SHARON STEEL  |  July 31, 2006

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