Eric Rohmer says adieu with Astrea and Celadon
Now 88 years old, Eric Rohmer, a leading light of the French New Wave and a former film critic at Cahiers du cinéma, says Romance of Astrea and Celadon is his last film.
By A. S. HAMRAH | September 02, 2008

Interview: Shane West

Too late to stop
The actor discusses the Germs . . . and ER.
By JIM SULLIVAN | August 19, 2008

Variety pack

A compendium of Wolf Parade side projects

By BEN WESTHOFF | July 28, 2008

The Individuals

Fields/Aquamarine | Bar/None
It won't rock the worlds of less-than-obsessive fans of American post-punk, but it’s something we need more of: enterprising indie rock sprung from minds that are smart enough to keep it simple.
By SAM UBL | July 15, 2008

For olde times’ sake

The return of the Squirrel Nut Zippers
Squirrel Nut Zippers aren’t just a cult band — they’re practically a cult.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | July 15, 2008

Old souls

The Bouncing Souls stay relevant
“The very first Bouncing Souls show was a battle of the bands in high school. We took third place out of four bands. We sucked, though — we were terrible. Horrible ."
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG | July 15, 2008

Intimacy issues

Perennials et al. at P.A.'s, July 10, 2008
Singer John Flax’s stage presence could have worked an audience 10 times as big; it was a shame to think their wick has only three weeks to burn.
By MEGAN V. BELL | July 15, 2008

Geography lessons

Street Dogs remain Boston to the core
"You could put us in Anchorage or Alaska or Antarctica or even somewhere in the Himalayas, and at heart we’d still be from Boston.”
By MATT ASHARE | June 24, 2008

Rachid Taha

Rock El Casbah: The Best Of . . . | Wrasse
On this first career-spanning collection, which skitters around chronologically, the consistency of Rachid Taha's work is more evident than ever before.
By JEFF TAMARKIN | June 17, 2008

We've got a bigger problem now

Letters to the Boston Editor: June 13, 2008
I got my first Dead Kennedys T-shirt in 1985 and have been a Michael Savage listener for years.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | June 11, 2008

Mike Edison walks alone

Funhouse
On his death bed, Mike Edison probably won’t lament that he didn’t do this or he didn’t go there.
By AMY FINCH | June 10, 2008

Springtime for Darwin

The wars of evolution are louder than ever. What Ben Stein, Bad Religion, and a physics professor from Quincy can tell you about where you came from.
There are two stories, and two stories only.
By JAMES PARKER | May 07, 2008

Oddballs and noisemakers

Looking back 20 years to the Pixies' Surfer Rosa and the beginning of the Best Music Poll
Twenty years ago, the American Top 40 was nothing like Boston’s live music scene.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | May 07, 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

Not fade away

Ain't no party like a Wormtown party
Wormtown. It's a state of being, an alternative reality, a club-music subculture centered in Worcester, Massachusetts.
By CLIF GARBODEN | April 30, 2008

Indie gets the blues

The Gossip, the Black Keys, and the Kills
White rockers generally come by the blues one of two ways.
By MATT ASHARE | April 23, 2008

Muck and the Mires

Dorren EP | Dirty Water
If Phil Spector could produce the Ramones, then Kim Fowley can produce Muck and the Mires, local faves whose sound has always been two parts Ramones to five parts British Invasion.
By BRETT MILANO | April 15, 2008

Czech, please

The Valerie Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, April 5, 2008
Faced with the task of supplying a live score for a film, an ensemble can proceed one of two ways.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | April 08, 2008

Canon ball

Carbon/Silicon at T.T. the Bear's Place, April 5, 2008
Britpunk enthusiasts got a taste of what might have been Saturday night as two legends of ’77 — Mick Jones and Tony James — brought their new band Carbon/Silicon to a packed T.T.
By MATT ASHARE | April 08, 2008

Portland hopes to bridge cultural divides

Open-door policy
This February marked the six-year anniversary of journalist Daniel Pearl’s horrifying death at the hands of Islamist extremists.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | April 02, 2008

Cuban rocker released

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