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Mission Of Burma at Pitchfork Music Fest, Union Park, Chicago, July 18, 2008
The band, as always, sounded fantastic, especially if you’d been listening to the record all week in preparation.
By DEVIN KING  |  July 22, 2008
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Remasters of the universe

The ‘definitive’ Mission of Burma
The adage “All things come to those who wait” tends not to find too many useful applications in rock and roll.
By MATT ASHARE  |  June 09, 2008
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Fusion forms

Lorraine Chapman, Kinodance, Black Grace
Modern dancers who aren’t tethered to a specific technique can forage the whole world for useful movement and effects. We saw three completely different examples recently.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  April 23, 2008
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Bouncement 3

. . . and other singular beats
Lately it’s seemed like Old Home Days for Toneburst, the influential artcore junglist collective that was a locus of Boston’s underground dance scene in the mid ’90s.
By SUSANNA BOLLE  |  April 08, 2008
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Mexico City abuzz with Beantowners

A report from the International Mexico City Festival of Contemporary Cinema
Where’s New York?  Where’s LA?
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 07, 2008
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Alloy Orchestra

The Alloy does the Underworld at the Somerville
If it weren’t for Alloy Orchestra, it’s doubtful Boston would ever get to see silents like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  March 17, 2008
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Back in print

The return of Big Dipper
In a quiet basement in suburban Concord, singers/guitarists Gary Waleik and Bill Goffrier and drummer Jeff Oliphant are about to turn back into Big Dipper.
By BRETT MILANO  |  March 05, 2008

Mission completed

The break-up of Mission of Burma
This article originally appeared in the January 18, 1983 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By DOUG SIMMONS  |  January 17, 2008
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Home for the holiday

Mission of Burma's Roger Miller does his part for Tibet
The Middle East corner is not exactly where you’d expect to find Mission of Burma guitarist Roger Miller performing on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  December 09, 2007
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Anxiety of influence

A.K.A.C.O.D. come out of Morphine’s shadow  
The sound on A.K.A.C.O.D.’s new Happiness CD is going to make many Boston listeners think one word: Morphine.
By JON GARELICK  |  November 27, 2007
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Boston music news, November 9, 2007

Notes on the 20th anniversary of the Middle East
"If you don’t have the flowers, the bees won’t come for the nectar.”
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  November 05, 2007
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In with the new

Mission of Burma, Institute of Contemporary Art, September 23, 2007
Mission of Burma left the building last Sunday without playing the “hits.”
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  September 24, 2007

Boston music news: March 30, 2007

Notes on the Everyday Visuals and Brett Rosenberg
Drummer Billy Beard saw a young band called the Everyday Visuals at the Lizard Lounge last year and was knocked out.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  March 27, 2007
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Porn in the USA

Boston Underground Film Festival, Brattle Theatre, March 22, 2007
What’s the last time you went to a theater to see a porn movie?
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  March 26, 2007
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Damned good

Levine’s Berlioz and Wuorinen, Garrick Ohlsson’s Beethoven, the Borromeo’s Shostakovich, the Alloy’s Eagle
James Levine returned from his winter break with one of the most thrilling BSO concerts of his tenure: Berlioz’s “dramatic legend,” La damnation de Faust.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  February 20, 2007
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Survivor: Portland

Jake Roche returns with a solo debut
When Jeremiah Freed decided in early 2005 to depart Portland for the sunny climes and cutthroat industry of Los Angeles, guitarist Jake Roche didn’t make the trip.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  January 31, 2007
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Mission Of Burma

Not A Photograph — The Mission Of Burma Story| MVD
This well-done documentary traces the beatific arc of Mission of Burma’s evolution from a clutch of scrappy punk outfits to one highly creative scrappy art-punk outfit to ashes to current resurrection.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 28, 2006

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 13

Mission of Burma | the Bradford Ballroom | March 12, 1983

By PHOENIX STAFF  |  October 25, 2006
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Legendary restarts

Mission of Burma drop the second CD of their second career
If back in 2001 you’d told me or just about any other right-minded music fan that the legendary Mission of Burma would have two new studio albums to their name within five years, the polite response would have been, “Yeah, right.”
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  May 26, 2006
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Mission statements

Brazilian funk, Missy Elliott, and other things you wouldn’t expect to find in Mission of Burma’s record crates
You can tell a lot by a man’s record collection, and even more by his DJ set. And if not? Well, you still got to hear the new Burma record The Obliterati at the Enormous Room.
By CARLY CARIOLI  |  May 24, 2006

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