Breaking news from the concert-ticket trade
By WILL SPITZ | May 31, 2006
STRING CHEESE INCIDENT + BOB WEIR & RAT DOG | July 15 at the Tweeter Center, Mansfield | $35 + $45 | on sale Friday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | MARIAH CAREY + SEAN PAUL | August 21 at the TD Banknorth Garden, Boston | $19.50-$129.50 | on sale Friday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | DANIEL POWTER | July 22 at the Roxy, Boston | $20 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | DIXIE CHICKS | July 29 at TD Banknorth Garden, Boston | $49.50 + $77.50 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND | August 26 at the Tweeter Center, Mansfield | $25-$50 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | PRETENDERS | August 4 at Avalon, Boston | $45 | on sale Saturday at noon | 617.931.2000
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- Crossword: ''Encyclopedic knowledge''
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- Fleecing, stealing, shilling, and sucking with impunity
Over the busy holiday season, a tremendous wealth of worthless music-news tidbits slipped through the cracks, unnoticed by a lethargic, goose-sated America.
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Photos of Mariah Carey on her 2010 world tour
- On the Racks: May 23, 2006
Plus new releases by Osaka Popstar, PJ Harvey, and the American Idol kids.
- Rebel Belles
No other performer has been as vilified as the Dixie Chicks were for speaking out — and they wouldn’t have been if they hadn’t made their name in the conservative space of mainstream country music.
- Shut Up and Sing
“Who are the Dixie Chicks, anyway? They should shut the fuck up.” Watch the trailer for Shut Up & Sing (QuickTime)
- Reggae revival
The climate is tropical, sweet skunk fills the air, and reggae jams are hitting such lofty decibels that I can't even feel my phone vibrate.
- Pedro, Borat, and a castrato
As usual, dedicated film critics were too occupied seeing four or five movies a day to note the swarm of A-list celebrities at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival.
- Review: Precious
If you thought Celie in Alice Walker's The Color Purple had a tough time of it, wait till you get a load of Precious.
- Present laughter
Director Brian McEleney returns to Trinity Repertory Company for a raucous Twelfth Night that hums with energy, drollery, and a makeshift score that meshes Shakespearean ditty with such seasonal fripperies as "Auld Lang Syne" and the Mariah Carey hit "All I Want for Christmas Is You."
- Hip-pop redux
Nelly Furtado’s not the first pop diva to embark on a lucrative hip-hop detour.
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