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Photos: Best of BMP Concert 2009

Photos of Ra Ra Riot, Passion Pit, Gaslight Anthem, Metric, The Airborne Toxic Event, and The Bravery

By PHOENIX STAFF | August 7, 2009

Photo: Carina Mastrocola

Ra Ra Riot | Best Music Poll Concert 2009 | August 1, 2009

For concert photos, video of Metric's BMP Concert performance, and interview audio, visit the 2009 Best Music Poll Concert Museum .

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Best Music Poll 2009 concert
Stream audio of all the bands' performances, watch video highlights, download interview podcasts, browse concert and behind-the-scenes photos, and share your own photos and videos at the Boston Phoenix Web site or WFNX's site.
Review: WFNX's Miracle on Tremont Street 2009
A quick, mildly sycophantic shout-out to the "powers that be" here in Phoenix -Land: This year's Miracle on Tremont Street was nothing short of a wicked pissah powerhouse bill. The grand old Orpheum creaked under the weight of a sold-out audience, and a pronounced feistiness prevailed .
Photos: Passion Pit at Best Music Poll 2009
Photos from Passion Pit's performance at the Boston Phoenix and WFNX's annual Best Music Poll Concert on August 1, 2009 at Boston's City Hall Plaza.
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Best Music Poll 2009 concert
Stream audio of all the bands' performances, watch video highlights, download interview podcasts, browse concert and behind-the-scenes photos, and share your own photos and videos at the Boston Phoenix Web site or WFNX's site.
Review: WFNX's Miracle on Tremont Street 2009
A quick, mildly sycophantic shout-out to the "powers that be" here in Phoenix -Land: This year's Miracle on Tremont Street was nothing short of a wicked pissah powerhouse bill. The grand old Orpheum creaked under the weight of a sold-out audience, and a pronounced feistiness prevailed .
Photos: Passion Pit at Best Music Poll 2009
Photos from Passion Pit's performance at the Boston Phoenix and WFNX's annual Best Music Poll Concert on August 1, 2009 at Boston's City Hall Plaza.
Photos: Backstage with Passion Pit
Passion Pit backstage at WFNX and the Boston Phoenix's Best Music Poll Concert at City Hall Plaza in Boston on August 1, 2009.
WFNX's top 101 songs in 2010
WFNX listeners voted online at wfnx.com for six weeks to create this list of 2010's best songs.
Photos: Passion Pit, Phoenix, and Spoon at Orpheum
Photos of Passion Pit, Phoenix, and Spoon performing at WFNX's annual Miracle on Tremont Street
Interview: Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit
In 2008, Passion Pit won Best New Artist in our Best Music Poll.
2009: The year in local pop
When I think back on 2009, I feel the same pleasant discomfort you get at the end of a John Hughes movie, when suddenly all the jocks and dorks and punks are good friends. This year, hardcore denizens of time-worn niches came out of hiding and acted all presentable and all sorts of scenes and sounds went behind the bleachers for some unlikely scores.
Passion Pit | Manners
Long have we at the Phoenix trailed the spark as it crackled down the winding wick toward the ostensible powder keg of this, Passion Pit's first full-length release. And why not?
Photos: Passion Pit at House of Blues
Photos: Passion Pit live at House of Blues Boston, January 6, 2010.
WFNX dies before it gets old
One of the greatest anti-establishment rallying cries of the 20th century was the notion that you can't trust anyone over the age of 30.
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