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Song of herself

Kaki King adds her voice to the mix
"Listen, I will go on record saying I love Feist, I love Neko Case. I love that music. But that shit's easy listening for the twentysomethings. It fucking is. It's not hard to listen to any of that stuff."
By RICHARD BECK  |  August 05, 2009
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Photos: Grizzly Bear at Berklee

Grizzly Bear, live at Berklee Performance Center, June 3, 2009
Grizzly Bear, live at Berklee Performance Center, June 3, 2009
By DAVID F. NICHOLSON  |  June 08, 2009
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St. Vincent's Actor gets a run-through

St. Vincent, live at the Somerville Theatre, May 19, 2009
There were not one but two clarinets on stage at the Somerville Theatre on Tuesday night, and that gives you some idea of how intricate Annie Clark's chamber-pop compositions can be.
By RICHARD BECK  |  May 26, 2009
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Local color

Grizzly Bear try to break out of the blogosphere
It's become a commonplace to say that "indie" is too vague to mean anything useful, but that's not actually true.
By RICHARD BECK  |  May 28, 2009

Tape complex

A peek inside the Richmond County Archives
Andy Bernick set up the on-line Richmond County Archives while he was living on Long Island.
By RICHARD BECK  |  February 27, 2009
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Noise Night at Willoughby and Baltic

Circuit bending with Jimmie Rodgers
Circuit benders are people who customize electronics (frequently toys) to make them sound bad.
By RICHARD BECK  |  February 18, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Pop 3000!

At the dawn of a new millennium, pop cries out for innovation
I'm sometimes pigeonholed as some kind of Negative Nelly: a pessimist, a cynic, a grouch , even.
By DAVID THORPE  |  December 29, 2008
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Peaceful Easy Feeling

Calexico at the Somerville Theatre, November 16, 2008
The members of Calexico look like dads. They play a little like dads too.
By RICHARD BECK  |  November 18, 2008
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A meme deferred

Michael Eric Dyson changes the subject at Harvard
Nobody knows exactly what Obama means yet, but Dyson is having a great time figuring it out.
By RICHARD BECK  |  November 14, 2008
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Get around to it

Belated props to Arthur Russell
You would not guess, listening to his music, that Arthur Russell grew up in Oskaloosa, Iowa. In fact you might not guess that he came from anywhere.  
By RICHARD BECK  |  October 25, 2008
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Tricky | Knowle West Boy

Domino (2008)
Who is not glad to have Tricky around?  
By RICHARD BECK  |  October 08, 2008

Thugs on parade

Letters to the Boston editor, October 10, 2008
I would like to commend Anne Elizabeth Moore on a fantastic job of reporting from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.  
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  October 08, 2008
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Positively Phil

Roth goes back to college
We all know Philip Roth’s preoccupations.
By RICHARD BECK  |  September 16, 2008
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13 shots to the dome

The 10 hours and 29 minutes of LL Cool J’s career
What to do with LL Cool J?
By RICHARD BECK  |  September 03, 2008
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Okkervil River

The Stand Ins | Jagjaguwar
The real problem with taste here is that Sheff doesn’t have any.
By RICHARD BECK  |  September 02, 2008
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Jeff Hanson

Madam Owl | Kill Rock Stars
Hanson has augmented the sparse, acoustic folk of his previous albums with a backdrop of strings and horns, thus giving these songs greater depth and body.
By MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY  |  August 19, 2008
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Death Vessel

Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us | Sub Pop
My only criticism of Death Vessel’s second LP is their trouble with slow songs. Otherwise, it's an astonishing forward leap for this Brooklyn-based folk group.
By RICHARD BECK  |  August 19, 2008
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The play’s the thing

The audial oddities of Blevin Blectum
“I like rhythmic structure,” Bevin Kelley says on the phone from Providence, where she lives.
By RICHARD BECK  |  June 30, 2008
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Silver Jews

Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea | Drag City
Wry, witty, and weird, this not-quite-coherent set of songs is a more freewheeling tour of lead singer David Berman’s increasingly playful lyrical sensibilities.
By RICHARD BECK  |  June 24, 2008
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Diminishing returns

The Hold Steady make it hard to Stay Positive
For a while, Hold Steady lead singer Craig Finn wrote terrific stories.
By RICHARD BECK  |  July 09, 2008
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Iri-decent

Kanye West and Rihanna at Tweeter Center, May 15, 2008
Kanye’s music more than lived up to his visual and conceptual audacity.
By RICHARD BECK  |  May 29, 2008
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Bangers + Mush

Dizzee Rascal and El P at the Middle East Downstairs, May 11, 2008
About five years ago, when grime came crashing through the gates, many thought that England had finally found a homegrown answer to American hip-hop.
By RICHARD BECK  |  May 21, 2008
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The Roots | Rising Down

Def Jam
Def Jam
By RICHARD BECK  |  May 12, 2008
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Here's the beef

MIT's Steer Roast at Senior Haus at MIT, May 2-3, 2008
Standing underneath a leaky tarp, I looked across the courtyard and saw a guy pushing mud around with a stick. That was kind of a low point.
By RICHARD BECK  |  May 06, 2008
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Strings ’n’ bass

Helmut Lachenmann comes to town, plus DJ G Notorious’s Dubwise monthly
This week we’re hitting the sonic extremes.
By SUSANNA BOLLE  |  February 26, 2008
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The low end

The bassline house invasion
The British rave revolution of the late ’80s/early ’90s is accurately viewed as the source of the ever increasing number of dance genres in the UK.
By RICHARD BECK  |  February 26, 2008
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Freeway

Free at Last | Roc-a-Fella
The Philly native isn’t the popster they hoped he would be.
By RICHARD BECK  |  February 05, 2008
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

One of the year's best movies
In Andrew Dominik’s revisionist Western, Jesse James is not a character.
By RICHARD BECK  |  October 05, 2007
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War of the words

50 Cent versus Kanye West
50 Cent has a long history of initiating beefs before he releases a new album.
By RICHARD BECK  |  September 12, 2007
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Explicitly yours

R. Kelly after the sex jokes
The easiest way out with R. Kelly — as with Bill Clinton or Paris Hilton — is sex jokes.
By RICHARD BECK  |  August 07, 2007

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