Sean Slade

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Mix nuts

An interview with breakout roots-music production stars the Tremolo Twins
Pop music has a history of great production teams.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | September 23, 2008

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

A Jersey junket

Joe Harvard's rock-and-roll birthday
Joe Harvard, East Boston native, made his bones in these parts, primarily as a producer and founding co-owner of Fort Apache studio.
By JIM SULLIVAN | January 08, 2008

Chairmen of the boards

Our critics pick the 14 producers with the fattest, meanest beats
Not unlike Swedish, Tagalog, and Esperanto, music is a language, with its own conjugations and (lewdly) dangling participles.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | October 18, 2007

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 11

Radiohead + Teenage Fanclub + Dandy Warhols | Harborlights Pavilion | August 23, 1997

By PHOENIX STAFF | October 25, 2006

Saturday-night special

Radiohead at Harborlights Pavilion
This article originally appeared in the August 28, 1997 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By MATT ASHARE | October 25, 2006

Sex, clubs and rock ’n’ roll

The Dresden Dolls shift into harder-rockin’ mode
The first thing you’d have noticed about the Dresden Dolls’ CD-release show at the Orpheum April 21 was how different it felt to be seated in a theater while the duo played.
By BRETT MILANO | May 02, 2006

Bands to watch out for

Promising local releases in ’06
Winter in Boston is like being grounded. Too many housebound nights, and we’re bored, stir-crazy, and filled with the overwhelming sense of injustice at being stuck in here while the whole world goes on out there.
By SARAH TOMLINSON | December 29, 2005

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