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Say it ain't so, Joe

Breaking: Biden resigns the vice-presidency amid Wentzgate scandal
Breaking: Biden resigns the vice-presidency amid Wentzgate scandal
By DAVID THORPE | November 14, 2008

John Mellencamp | Life Death Love and Freedom

Hear Music
The arrangements are sparse compared with those of Mellencamp’s pop hits — many don’t even allow drums — but they’re rich with textural detail.
By MIKAEL WOOD | July 15, 2008

Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog

Party Intellectuals | Pi
Humor, melody, and weirdness rule in this NYC avant guitarist’s sonic universe.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | June 25, 2008

Tooth of Crime (Second Dance) | Nonesuch
The follow-up to Burnett’s 2006 masterpiece The True False Identity (Sony) is a dark, cynical, vaguely futuristic song cycle triggered by a Sam Shepard play.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | May 27, 2008

Throwing dice, taking names

The Sword is +20 awesome
Let’s say your band are named the Sword, your albums have titles like Age of Winters and Gods of the Earth , and your latest single is “Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians.” Would these count as hazardous levels of irony?
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | May 12, 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

Crescent City health report

The New Orleans Jazz + Heritage Festival buoys a wounded community
“Is much better! The tourists is coming back !” That was our cab driver from Louis Armstrong Airport into New Orleans — a transplanted Haitian from Jefferson Parish.
By JON GARELICK | May 06, 2008

Duke Levine

Beneath the Blues | Loud, Loud Music
It’s an essay in tension and restraint.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | February 05, 2008

Portland scene report: December 28, 2007

Sibilance starts now
Our favorite SoPo troubalords, Fire on Fire , continue to rack up praise on the Web and beyond.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 26, 2007

Guest lists 2007

Phoenix and WFNX staffers submit their ten best albums of the year

By PHOENIX STAFF | December 21, 2007

Cinematic blunders

Getting through The Song Remains the Same
Led Zeppelin have rarely missed a promotional opportunity, and the occasion of their current reunion is no exception
By MATT ASHARE | December 04, 2007

Marc Ribot

Asmodeus: Book of Angels Volume 7 — Marc Ribot Plays Masada Book Two | Tzadik
If you know Ribot only through his brilliant sidemanning with Burnett and Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, you don’t really know Ribot.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | November 27, 2007

Bettye’s business

The battles of a blues belter

By TED DROZDOWSKI | October 30, 2007

Beyond the White Stripes

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant lead an Americana resurgence
There’s a blues and old-school R&B resurgence rumbling in the indie-music underground, and it goes well beyond the icky thump of the White Stripes.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | October 30, 2007

Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino

Vanguard
This packed two-disc set gathers all the usual suspects and more for a Tipitina’s Foundation project to rebuild Domino’s Ninth Ward neighborhood in New Orleans.
By CLEA SIMON | October 22, 2007

Endless rhapsody

How Queen trumped the punks
If Queen had not existed, it would by no means have been necessary to invent them.
By JAMES PARKER | August 07, 2007

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

Tinariwen

Aman Iman | Word Village
With their third CD, Tinariwen prove themselves the standard bearers of desert folk rock.
By TINARIWEN, AMAN IMAN | April 23, 2007

Neo-new-what?

A year in national pop
The real album of the year is a disc that probably didn’t cross many people’s paths in 2006, a Rhino comp titled Future Retro that pairs various DJs/electronicists (Richard X, Tiga, the Crystal Method) with classic new-wave tracks by the Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, Depeche Mode, and New Order.
By MATT ASHARE | December 28, 2006

The Stones

An essay on the older
This article originally appeared in the August 26, 1994 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By CAMILLE PAGLIA | November 16, 2006

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