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You heard it here first
WFNX has always been a maverick radio station.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | December 01, 2008

Oasis | Dig Out Your Soul

Reprise (2008)
No movement did more to dilute the majesty and power of rock’s first few golden ages than first-wave early-’90s Britpop.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | November 17, 2008

The Big Hurt: Hagar the horrible

Plus award-winning awards and buggering Beatles
I was reading a fascinating article about Sammy’s new record deal, and an epiphany struck: every year, Sammy looks more and more like the Dude.
By DAVID THORPE | September 24, 2008

The Big Hurt: Winners and losers

A hip-hop scorecard
Jay-Z's headlining slot at the Glastonbury Festival June 28 has been the stuff of much controversy, with various artists weighing in on his suitability to the event.
By DAVID THORPE | July 07, 2008

The Big Hurt: Pied-pipers lead innocent teens to emo cult Valhalla!

Music news in brief
As a connoisseur and frequent purveyor of shitty journalism, I have to applaud the Mail for its tremendous gusto.
By DAVID THORPE | June 02, 2008

Quirk-pop?

The Aliens and Mystery Jets
The Beta Band never really made an album you could listen to from beginning to end.
By MIKAEL WOOD | September 19, 2007

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

Serious simians

A day spent with Arctic Monkeys reveals the band to be, well, regular guys
It’s a rock star’s prerogative to get up every morning in the afternoon.
By MATT ASHARE | May 18, 2007

London falling

Damon Albarn’s The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Damon Albarn — Blur frontman, Gorillaz supremo, and now millennial minstrel to the drowning city of London — is that eerie modern specimen, the pop star who talks like a critic. The Good, The Bad, and the Queen, "Kingdom of Doom" (streaming video)
By JAMES PARKER | February 21, 2007

What’s the story?

Sorting through the ruins of Oasis
‘Liam Gallagher should have stayed in England,’ opined Newsday after a show on Long Island.
By JAMES PARKER | February 06, 2007

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 30

Oasis | Local 186 | October 21, 1994

By PHOENIX STAFF | October 25, 2006

Combat pop

Hard-Fi fight for the right to, uh, party
The new British sound is marked by riot vans, rage-engorged faces in taxi queues, the mute vigilance of the cameras, and everywhere the sense of some remote flogging going on.
By JAMES PARKER | April 12, 2006

Ballot crunching

Don’t be an uneducated BMP voter
For the sake of whetting your whistles, here is a brief primer to the Portland Best Music Poll ballot’s major categories.
By SAM PFEIFLE | April 05, 2006

Surprisingly good

Arctic Monkeys beat the hype
Leonard Cohen once said that living in England was like living inside a cabbage, a simile I can improve only by adding: an electrified cabbage.
By JAMES PARKER | March 13, 2006

Rock of ages

Supergrass's Road to Rouen ; plus music video at the MFA
“It’s just a tacky play on words — a typically stupid Supergrass thing to do,” says Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes when I mention the title of the band’s new album.
By MATT ASHARE | February 09, 2006

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