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Photos: 2011 Best Music Poll awards party

June 15, 2011 | Brighton Music Hall, Allston

By PHOENIX STAFF | June 20, 2011

Peter Wolf performs at the Best Music Poll Awards party - Joe Difazio

In wrapping up a legendary night at the first-ever Best Music Poll awards party, Peter Wolf, Duke Levine and Billy Beard hit the stage and joined Bodega Girls and Nikki Dessignue of Stereo Telescope for a blazing rendition of J. Geils Band's 1971 hit "Looking For A Love."

BMP VIDEO: Peter Wolf + Duke Levine + Bodega Girls "Looking For A Love"

READ: "The morning after -- life after BMP 2011" by Michael Marotta

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Out: Good times a’Bruin
It was the first time the Boston Phoenix hosted an awards party for its 23-year-old Best Music Poll, but what erupted June 15 at Brighton Music Hall was a drunken shitshow that honored decades of Boston rock and roll, and was capped off by the Bruins' first Stanley Cup championship since 1972.
As he is
For all the defiant, anguished fists we shake in the general direction of New York and Los Angeles whenever a musician becomes way more famous after they leave Boston, perhaps this city's gypsy-attracting disposition has advantages.
Photos: Girls Rock Boston Showcase at Brighton Music Hall
Girls Rock Boston presents a showcase at Brighton Music Hall on August 13, 2011.
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Out: Good times a’Bruin
It was the first time the Boston Phoenix hosted an awards party for its 23-year-old Best Music Poll, but what erupted June 15 at Brighton Music Hall was a drunken shitshow that honored decades of Boston rock and roll, and was capped off by the Bruins' first Stanley Cup championship since 1972.
As he is
For all the defiant, anguished fists we shake in the general direction of New York and Los Angeles whenever a musician becomes way more famous after they leave Boston, perhaps this city's gypsy-attracting disposition has advantages.
Photos: Girls Rock Boston Showcase at Brighton Music Hall
Girls Rock Boston presents a showcase at Brighton Music Hall on August 13, 2011.
The Scud Mountain Boys are back for one more round
It only took 15 years, but Joe Pernice is finally on the road to making amends with the friendships he left behind when he quit — and effectively dismantled — the Scud Mountain Boys in 1997 to focus on the Pernice Brothers with a rotating cast of musicians, including his brother, Bob.
Cloud Nothings | Attack on Memory
With Attack on Memory , the third full-length from Cleveland-based Cloud Nothings, 20-year-old frontman Dylan Baldi approaches new, drastically darker material with the same empty-bottle angst that made his previous releases so appealing.
The Big Hurt: Aussie asses sued off
MEN AT WORK — best known for their 1983 hit "Down Under" — have just had their pants sued off by a dead schoolmarm and her 78-year-old Girl Scout song.
Amanda Palmer bares all
I knew Amanda Palmer would show me her breasts. It was just a question of when.
Photos: Neon Indian's South End ''secret show''
Neon Indian perform at the power station on Harrison Ave in Boston as part of the "Secret Generator Series" on October 3, 2010
Fitz and the Tantrums blow up the soul party
On a recent performance on Daryl's House , a monthly webcast starring Daryl Hall and his featured musical friends, new Los Angeles soul combo Fitz and the Tantrums got to kick it old school with the '80s master of rock and soul.
Kurt Vile | Smoke Ring For My Halo
It's weird to write about a guy who operates this close to the classic singer-songwriter template and not even consider the lyrics.
Buffalo Tom celebrate 25 years of rock
"If you'd told me 10 years ago I'd be here playing with Buffalo Tom, I wouldn't have believed you," Mean Creek's Aurore Ounjian sheepishly offered up last week at ZuZu, moments before her band closed out a stripped-down, five-song set with a cover of Buffalo Tom's "Would Not Be Denied."
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