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Julian Casablancas | Phrazes for the Young

RCA (2009)
Someday, a great rock film will be made. The opening shot is of a wasted rock star, bejeweled and clad in the finest leather, with white panthers circling the living room of his Parthenon-esque manse as he hits PLAY on a comically large reel-to-reel.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  November 03, 2009
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Review: Michael Jackson's This Is It

Is this it?
The Star Wars –style titles that begin Kenny Ortega’s hastily assembled Michael Jackson tribute documentary explain that the film has been whittled down from 100 hours of behind-the-scenes video shot between last April and June during rehearsals for the King of Pop’s planned 50-date “This Is It” London concert series.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  November 04, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Liam alone

Can an Oasis spinoff help but suck?
Everyone figured that Noel Gallagher would go solo — it’s been hinted at for years — but the break-up of Oasis has made it a grim inevitability.
By DAVID THORPE  |  November 04, 2009
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Photos: Snoop Dogg with Method Man and Redman

Snoop Dogg with Method Man and Redman, live at Lupo's, Providence, October 31, 2009
Photos from the Providence stop of Snoop Dogg's Wonderland High School Tour
By RICHARD MCCAFFREY  |  November 02, 2009
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Halloween Weekend Overdose

34 Sugar-Fueled Hours of Halloween
Halloween is in six days and you still have no idea what party you're going to. You simultaneously feel as though you have everything to do and nothing to do. You haven't even got a costume anymore, because your lazy stoner friend stole your zombie  Billy Mays schtick .
By MADDY MYERS AND ASHLEY RIGAZIO  |  October 28, 2009
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Interview: Warren G

Smooth hustler
Humble and nonchalant as ever, Warren G is cooler than Miles Davis smoking an Alaskan cucumber.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 28, 2009
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David Bowie | Space Oddity: 40th Anniversary Edition

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David Bowie’s 1969 album Man of Music/Man of Words was retitled a few years after its debut, most likely because it was quickly becoming known as Space Oddity and Those Other Eight Songs We Could Care Less About .
By ZETH LUNDY  |  October 30, 2009

Kill The Karaoke, featuring Trainwreck

At Empire Dine & Dance, Wednesdays @ 9 pm
Since its invention in Japan in the early ’70s, karaoke has become an international pastime.
By DAN CLARK  |  October 28, 2009
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The Big Hurt: ''Losing'' news in brief

Aerosmith lose Joe; A-Ha lose everybody; Diddy loses bling; Corgan just loses it
AEROSMITH ’s disastrous summer of canceled tours and geriatric folly has taken its toll on guitarist Joe Perry, who recently told MTV that the band were on “indefinite hiatus” — which is music-industry slang for “I hate Steven Tyler.”
By DAVID THORPE  |  October 27, 2009
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Jaysaun and DJ Revolution | Game of Breath

 Brain on Drugz (2009)
Jaysaun is my best proof that Jay-Z is mediocre, as well as the first MC I play for hoodlum friends who accuse me of favoring white-boy art rap.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 21, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Release yo’ delf

The week in horrendous press releases
Every slow pop week has a silver lining: it’s a great chance to catch up on the thrilling world of useless press releases.
By DAVID THORPE  |  October 22, 2009
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Carnal knowledge

Nick Cave’s bad Bunny
When I interviewed Nick Cave for the Phoenix three years ago and he told me — drolly, languidly, literarily — that his next writing project was about “a sexually incontinent hand-cream salesman” on the south coast of England, I assumed he was taking the piss.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 06, 2009
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Soul training

Suddenly, Mayer Hawthorne is running retro-pop
Mayer Hawthorne rose to instant retro-pop acclaim the same way that everyone from Al Green to Michael Jackson moved on up — work and luck.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  September 22, 2009
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The Bigmouth strikes again

Kanye acts like himself; nation loses shit
Given all the conflicting emotions, it was tough to form an opinion on Kanye West's VMA bum rush against Taylor Swift.
By DAVID THORPE  |  September 22, 2009
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Review: Various artists | Tru Thoughts Covers

Tru Thoughts (2009)
Brighton-based label Tru Thoughts emerged at the dawn of the millennium with hit down-tempo/IDM acts like Bonobo.
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  September 15, 2009
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Hop to!

What was the Eclectic Collective is now Bad Rabbits
Somewhere in Allston, there’s an over-caffeinated barista/drummer bitching about Bad Rabbits.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  September 16, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Attention whoring and headline parsing

Music news in brief
Slow news week.
By DAVID THORPE  |  September 15, 2009
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Review: The Stone Roses | The Stone Roses (Legacy Edition)

Silvertone/Legacy (2009)
The Stone Roses' 1989 debut LP has been deified by such dubious tastemakers as the NME and Oasis's Noel Gallagher — and the rest of us really like it too.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  September 15, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Don't look back in anger

The best of times with the worst of bands
"You don't know what you've got till it's gone," Janet Jackson once famously sampled, and how true it is. Only now that Noel Gallagher has left in a firestorm of brotherly acrimony can I truly take stock of my feelings toward Oasis.
By DAVID THORPE  |  September 08, 2009

Review: Whitney Houston | I Look to You

Arista (2009)
It's tempting to wonder whether super-producer Clive Davis, in another of his music-biz machinations, arranged for Whitney Houston to whiff last week on Good Morning America , which is reported to have altered Houston's vocals for broadcast after she sounded hoarse during her Central Park mini-concert.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  September 09, 2009
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Photos: Britney Spears at TD Garden

Britney Spears, live at TD Garden on August 29, 2009
Photos of Britney Spears' Circus tour at TD Garden
By KELLY DAVIDSON  |  September 04, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Checking the Billboard Hot 100

Who charted?
As usual, I won't be able to make it through the full 100, but seven is just as good, right?
By DAVID THORPE  |  August 25, 2009
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Owing muses

Brian King sings his life in Venus As a Boy
A few days after I graduated from high school, the Internet showed up. "Well," I thought to myself. "That's just fucking great."
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  August 25, 2009
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Give peace a chance

Yoko Ono on why John Lennon's art remains relevant
This year marks the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In, which found the newlywed couple pontificating about peace from their Amsterdam honeymoon bed for a week. Decades later, the couple is still working together to promote social justice, with Ono publicizing exhibits of Lennon's playful, sometimes colorful, often childlike, works of art.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  August 26, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Broken bones and stripper poles

The Big Hurt: Music news in brief
Only a few weeks ago, I was making fun of Aerosmith for their inability to present Aerosmith in their Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Presents Aerosmith tour.
By DAVID THORPE  |  August 18, 2009
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From Sir, with love

Paul McCartney, live at Fenway, on August 5, 2009
However people go about justifying an expensive rock experience — whether laundering it through nostalgia, taking it as a sound investment in one’s pop-culture equity, or writing it off as a de facto co-pay toward rock’s fast-failing status quo — a Paul McCartney show just seems . . . different, excusable, maybe even compulsory.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  August 10, 2009
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Interview: Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx on acting, singing, comedy, and controversy
"Until you get a chance to define another side of your career, people will always say, 'You're doing it as a hobby.' "
By BEN WESTHOFF  |  August 11, 2009
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Photos: Paul McCartney at Fenway

Paul McCartney, live at Fenway Park on August 5, 2009
Photos of the former Beatle performing at Fenway Park 
By DAVID F. NICHOLSON  |  August 11, 2009
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Photos: Mayhem Fest 2009

Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Killswitch Engage and more live at Comcast Center, August 4, 2009
Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Killswitch Engage, Black Dahlia Murder, All That Remains, Cannibal Corpse, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium and Behemoth live.
By REVEREND AARON PEPELIS AND JOE HARRINGTON  |  August 11, 2009
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VIDEO: Watch Paul McCartney at Fenway

Paul McCartney, live at Fenway Park on August 5, 2009
Watch Paul McCartney in concert at Fenway Park
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  August 11, 2009

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