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Bryce Dessner and Matthew Ritchie at MIT
A week ago Wednesday and Thursday, a curious collection of young scruffy indie kids and older scruffy MIT eggheads converged on the school's Broad Institute for two nights of free music, art, and lecture dubbed "Darkness Visible."
Fenway eateries burn down; Phoenix staffers may starve to death
Boston bids farewell to one of its brightest spots — the row of six diverse and delectable restaurants on Peterborough Street that were consumed by a four-alarm fire early Tuesday morning.
Great Scott, January 4, 2009
"There's not enough hype in the world for Glasvegas," old reliable hypemonger NME recently proclaimed. But that doesn't mean the magazine and the rest of the British music press aren't trying.
Radiohead at Comcast Center, August 13, 2008
It’s a bummer that the four-plus hours I spent in my car feeling guilty about barfing loads of carbon into the air is most salient in my mind, because, as always, Radiohead delivered an awe-inspiring show.
The grim punch lines of Clawjob
The two guys who make up Clawjob have an unnerving tendency to describe something as funny when it’s anything but.
Icy Demons at Great Scott, July 27, 2008
Unless you’re, say, George Michael, summer Sunday-night shows can be rough on a band.
Ian MacKaye visits Tufts
“For me, punk is the new idea, always the new idea, forever the new idea. That’s why punk can never die. Because as long as there are people, there will be new ideas.”
Caribou at the Paradise Rock Club, March 26, 2008
Depending on your outlook, Dan Snaith is either a genius auteur or a misguided, egomaniacal control freak.
Neo-soul torture from the sub-Winehouses
Brace yourselves: we’re doomed to at least a summer of sub-Winehouse neo-soul torture.
Stephen Malkmus gets Jicky with it
Stephen Malkmus: expert Scrabble player, The Wire enthusiast, husband, father, indie-rock demigod.
Amplive's Rainydayz Remixes, approved by Thom
“We wanted to make you aware that you need to get approval before making arrangements of other writers’ work” — oops.
The rapid rise of Pretty & Nice
There’s a lot about Pretty & Nice that’s surprising.
Sort of crap
Magnússon’s film fails to illuminate what this declaration of independence meant or how it was carried out.
Reality TV has not killed the video star
Reality TV has not killed the video star.
Blonde Redhead at Paradise Rock Club, January 20, 2008
Not many bands can say their seventh album is their best.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones at Middle East Downstairs, December 26, 2007
The air was thick with nostalgia and Boston pride, not to mention the more tangible sweat that was dripping from the pipes downstairs at the Middle East.
A whole new year of live music
After a brief late-December break from the usual boatload of good shows, the flood picks up right where it left off in early January.
Ten from Boston’s 2007 pop underground
Mark it, dude: another banner year for the Boston music scene.
"Miracle on Tremont Street," Orpheum Theatre, December 4, 2007
“Miracle on Tremont Street" offered a reminder that modern rock isn’t completely dominated by watered-down emo-pop pap and heinous post-grunge mush.
The Black and White Album | A+M/Octone
Call me crazy, but I consider Tyrannosaurus Hives to be one of the best punk-rock albums of all time
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