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Review: Bad Boy Made Good

The revival of George Anthiel's 1924 Ballet méchanique
If Igor Stravinsky’s Sacre du printemps paved the way for modern rock, then George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique made possible every genre of contemporary music with “noise” or “metal” in its name.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  November 03, 2009
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Supersonic youth

Nothing’s gonna stop Deastro now
It’s been a rough couple of months for Randolph Chabot, a/k/a Deastro.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  November 04, 2009
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Monsters of rock

Heavenly hardness from Chinese Stars and Six Finger Satellite
Full-lengths from local rock icons Six Finger Satellite and the Chinese Stars provide a decimating double-dose of kinetic madness.
By CHRIS CONTI  |  November 04, 2009
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Julian Casablancas | Phrazes for the Young

RCA (2009)
Someday, a great rock film will be made. The opening shot is of a wasted rock star, bejeweled and clad in the finest leather, with white panthers circling the living room of his Parthenon-esque manse as he hits PLAY on a comically large reel-to-reel.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  November 03, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Liam alone

Can an Oasis spinoff help but suck?
Everyone figured that Noel Gallagher would go solo — it’s been hinted at for years — but the break-up of Oasis has made it a grim inevitability.
By DAVID THORPE  |  November 04, 2009
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Interview: Ray Davies

On singing in the choir, his American experience, and who’ll play Dave  
In 1964, the scorching five-chord chorus of “You Really Got Me” changed rock music forever.
By ELIZABETH GEHRMAN  |  November 06, 2009
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Nirvana | Live at Reading and Bleach

DGC/Sub Pop (2009)
Here in the Internet Age, we tend to think that we made possible the overnight transformation from blog-buzz baby to arena-rock idol.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  November 04, 2009

Ye + Haru Bangs + Batshelter

Music Seen
Who was the least idiosyncratic band at Bubba’s last Thursday? Maybe the (not breaking up, but going on academic hiatus) duo Haru Bangs, who were the only act in plainclothes, but who also unfurled dynamic, punishingly loud fits of drum and effects-mauled guitar which will either strike you as utterly alienating or as novel, dizzying bits of well-composed chaos?
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  November 04, 2009

Ghoulish grooves

Off the Couch
Misfits and Sasquatch rock Day of the Dead
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  October 27, 2009
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Hip-hop is dead

. . . or undead, rather — just ask Zombie Death Squad
Depraved hip-hop is the biggest thing to hit trailer-trash America since sliced meds — and not just in redneck pockets, where rap music hardly reached before, but in suburban enclaves where acts like Twiztid and Tech N9ne sell out shows with ease.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 30, 2009
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Hip-hop from Hell

Horrorcore salutes Ice Cube and Alice Cooper
Depraved hip-hop is the biggest thing to hit trailer-trash America since sliced meds.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 29, 2009

Kill The Karaoke, featuring Trainwreck

At Empire Dine & Dance, Wednesdays @ 9 pm
Since its invention in Japan in the early ’70s, karaoke has become an international pastime.
By DAN CLARK  |  October 28, 2009
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The Big Hurt: ''Losing'' news in brief

Aerosmith lose Joe; A-Ha lose everybody; Diddy loses bling; Corgan just loses it
AEROSMITH ’s disastrous summer of canceled tours and geriatric folly has taken its toll on guitarist Joe Perry, who recently told MTV that the band were on “indefinite hiatus” — which is music-industry slang for “I hate Steven Tyler.”
By DAVID THORPE  |  October 27, 2009
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Photos: Paramore, Paper Route at House of Blues

Paramore and Paper Route, live at the House of Blues, October 19, 2009
Photos of Paramore and Paper Route at the HoB
By MARY OUELLETTE  |  October 20, 2009
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Life in Ruin

The crushing metal of Human Moral Deception
Recently, Bull Moose wondered "aloud" (via Facebook) about the future of metal.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  October 21, 2009
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Brute forces

Mastodon, High on Fire, and Dethklok lead metal’s latest charge
When you get down to it, most music is an attempt to create auditory allegories for our life experiences, whether they’re joyous Maypole dervishes or nightmarish St. Vitus’ dances of doom.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  October 21, 2009
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Newport’s rock royalty

The diePods — straight outta the City by the Sea
If 75orLess Records CEO (and Six Star General bassist) Mark MacDougall decided to host an East Bay Desert Sessions, the diePods would be the 3 am headliner.
By CHRIS CONTI  |  October 21, 2009
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Re-taking a leak

Atlas Sound shines through on Logos
When last we left Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, it was November of 2008, and he was ready to put that year to bed. A couple of months earlier, an eager fan downloading one of Cox's many "virtual seven-inches" had sleuthed out a whole Mediafire folder full of goodies that Cox had posted but not protected.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  October 15, 2009
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Epics in minutes

Sian Alice Group make a lot from a little (of everything)
Rupert Clervaux has made a game out of reading how people dissect his band's sound. As a multi-instrumentalist in the London collective Sian Alice Group (who come to the Middle East on Monday), he hears the whole spectrum of genres.
By REYAN ALI  |  October 13, 2009
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He, himself, and Hi

Eric Elbogen's Say Hi comes into its own
“I was always the kid who hated to do group projects at school because I always thought I could work better on my own.”
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  October 19, 2009
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Paramore | Brand New Eyes

Fueled By Ramen (2009)
 If you haven’t spent time in a rock-and-roll band, you’ll probably never understand how every outfit, no matter how united in appearance, is made up of supremely self-conscious individuals continually teetering on the brink of a meltdown.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  October 14, 2009
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Review: Brütal Legend

Brutal is one way to put it
The cover of Brütal Legend sports an interesting detail.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  October 16, 2009
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Baroness | Blue Record

Relapse (2009)
For a band of ultra-prosaic album titlers, Baroness are big thinkers when it comes to their music.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  October 14, 2009

Music Seen: Sufjan Stevens + Marie Stella

Port City Music Hall, October 2 | SPACE Gallery, September 29
The ironic thing about Sufjan Stevens's belated debut in Portland was that a big show for this town is an intimate event for him.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  October 07, 2009
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A Place To Bury Strangers | Exploding Head

Mute (2009)
When it comes to the resurgence of all things shoegaze, only one question remains: how literal do you want it?
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  October 06, 2009
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Darrell Nulisch | Just For You

Severn (2009)
This Boston-based blues and soul singer’s seventh album might seem an update of the elegantly funky Stax sound, with its deep grooves and smartly harmonized horns.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 22, 2009
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He is a real composer

And don't you try to tell Joshua Newton otherwise
Joshua Newton wants you to know he doesn't write classical music.
By EMILY PARKHURST  |  October 07, 2009
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Photos: Dinosaur Jr. at the Middle East downstairs

Dinosaur Jr., live at the Middle East downstairs, October 2, 2009
Photos of Dinosaur Jr. performing on their 2009 reunion tour
By NELLIE SWEET  |  October 05, 2009
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The Flaming Lips | Embryonic

Warner Bros. (2009)
If new albums by Super Furry Animals, 50 Foot Wave, and the Flaming Lips are any indication, 2009 is smack in the middle of a new psychedelic age.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  October 19, 2009
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Carnal knowledge

Nick Cave’s bad Bunny
When I interviewed Nick Cave for the Phoenix three years ago and he told me — drolly, languidly, literarily — that his next writing project was about “a sexually incontinent hand-cream salesman” on the south coast of England, I assumed he was taking the piss.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 06, 2009

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