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Millenium thug

Rough, rugged, raw reality rap essentials from a redefining year
Forgive me for listing only New York classics here.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  November 11, 2008
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Tackling the issues

Brutally funny
When Sarah Palin’s interviews with Katie Couric first aired, people rushed to defend or condemn her. But one man opted for the blitz package instead.
By JONATHAN SEITZ  |  October 29, 2008
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Hot summer nights

The pulsating spirit of Sound Session ’08
The annual Sound Session festival is a weeklong sonic soiree that is expected to draw upwards of 65,000 partygoers from July 6 through 12.
By CHRIS CONTI  |  June 26, 2008
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Feign and fortune

The US Air Guitar Championships
McNallica shredded upon nothingness like an unholy hybrid of Mick Mars and a feral burlesque dancer.
By BARRY THOMPSON  |  June 10, 2008
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Bo Diddley was a gunslinger

1928-2008
Grab a stack of albums at random and scan the liner notes. Ten bucks says you’ll find the name “E. McDaniel” listed among the song credits on at least one of them.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  June 04, 2008
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Too legit to quit

Wu-Tang Clan and Ghostface Killah
The early word on Wu-Tang Clan’s new 8 Diagrams   is that it will rip the group apart at the seams.
By BEN WESTHOFF  |  December 31, 2007
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Schools of rock

There’s a whole lot of moving, shaking, and band-building going on in the world of local music instruction
“You walk in here, and you feel as though you’re visiting your favorite aunt or uncle’s house ... it’s a place where you want to visit and you’re willing to take risks.”
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  November 28, 2007
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Selling points

Jay-Z ties his fortunes to American Gangster
Jay-Z’s new album shares its title with the new Ridley Scott film about Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas.
By BEN WESTHOFF  |  November 14, 2007
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Show fetish

The MFA’s new ‘Walk This Way’ exhibit traces the history of footwear fashion, from sandals to stilettos
Ever since Salvatore Ferragamo designed the first stiletto heel in 1955, podiatrists have faced a steady stream of female patients seeking physical relief from their devotion to fashion over function.
By SHARON STEEL  |  September 26, 2007
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Rock-star moves

Air Guitar Nation at SPACE Gallery
Hey, you American Idol drudges, exit your cave for a contest just as colossally dumb but a gazillion times zanier.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 25, 2007
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Rock-star moves

Air Guitar Nation at the Brattle
Hey, you American Idol drudges, exit your cave for a contest just as colossally dumb but a gazillion times zanier: Alexandra Lipsitz’s documentary Air Guitar Nation.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 17, 2007
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Matter of characters

In the age of the sound bite, Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster are reviving the lost art of long-form radio comedy
Two men are on the phone.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  April 04, 2007
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Dead, or immortal?

Nas’s album title challenges a generation
When Chuck D challenges the status quo, a bunch of fortysomethings nod their heads, but Nas can put the young rappers on the defensive.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER  |  January 24, 2007
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Moving in stereo

Music-video gurus Lumen Eclipse, plus hip-hop news
Boston is home to too few public art spaces, and precious few get any national attention. DJ Rugged One, "Interlude" (mp3 via MySpace)
By DAVID DAY  |  November 20, 2006
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Fashionistas, rejoice!

Haute couture storms the MFA
I feared for my life when I walked into the Downtown Crossing H&M one morning last November. Slideshow: "Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006” at Museum Of Fine Arts  
By SHARON STEEL  |  November 09, 2006

Keeping it surreal

The Beastie Boys at the Centrum, August 25, 1998
This article originally appeared in the September 4, 1998 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By MATT ASHARE  |  October 25, 2006
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On the racks: October 17, 2006

Diddy, Danzig, and Badly Drawn Boy
Plus the Slits, Sarah McLachlan, and holiday fare.
By MATT ASHARE  |  October 17, 2006
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Boston music news: October 20, 2006

Notes on Clinton Sparks, Middlesex, and Jake La Botz
DJ CLINTON SPARKS’s tag line is “Get Familiar,” and America may do just that when he joins the artist still called Diddy (we think) and the Press Play Band on an international promo tour that kicks off this week with a variety of TV appearances.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  October 17, 2006
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Livin' large

DJ Ricky Fatts six nights a week; Claude Von Stroke
Boston club king DJ Ricky Fatts is a busy man. Termanology, "Watch How It Go Down" (mp3)
By DAVID DAY  |  September 26, 2006
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Forward into the past!

Oldies and more in the season’s CD releases
Could it be just a coincidence that as I sit here writing this, a grizzled Bob Seger is gearing up for the release of Face the Promise , the Detroit rocker’s first proper studio album in, oh, forever and a day? The Lemonheads, "No Backbone" (mp3)
By MATT ASHARE  |  September 14, 2006

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