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Don't waste your energy

Draft Dodgers
If 2009 is shaping up to be anything, it's the year that everything and its aunt are "going green" — or at least that's the meme that's being driven into our skulls for doing whatever we'd do anyway, but with green-colored packaging.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 14, 2009

RIP: Ron Asheton (1948-2009)

Death trip
Ron Asheton's off-and-on relationship with James "Iggy Pop" Osterberg Jr. was both a blessing and a curse.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 19, 2009

Interview: Crooked X

Your New Favorite Teenage Rock N Roll High School Metal Music Machine
Before I climb onto the enormo tour bus of Oklahoma modern rockers Crooked X, I meet up with them at a Dunkin' Donuts, and witness their drummer, Boomer, ask his road manager, with a straight face, if they have Egg McMuffins here.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 09, 2009

Factory Records: Communications 1978-92

Rhino (2009)
The whole Factory Records stereotype of thin, earnest men in long raincoats complaining about the cold and the damp to absolutely no chicks whatsoever over frenetic machine-made beats is with us for a reason.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 06, 2009

Kicking the habits

The Raveonettes change (for a change)
Anyone familiar with Wagner's œuvre with the Raveonettes (who come to the Paradise next Thursday) should be surprised by the idea that, having created something awesome, he's ready to move on to something different.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 09, 2009

Year in National Pop: New attitudes

Are we fated to pretend?
Are we fated to pretend?

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 22, 2008

Voice of regeneration

Richie Havens rages on 40 years after Woodstock
Havens, who comes to the MFA this Sunday, has been following his muse since he was a child.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 16, 2008

Made in the dark

Beach House, live at the Museum of Fine Arts, December 10, 2008
A few songs into their set at the MFA's Remis Auditorium Friday, Beach House's Victoria Legrand gave a second, graver plea for less light.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 19, 2008

Review: RTX - JJ Got Live RaTX

Drag City
Drag City

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 09, 2008

Review: Letters to Cleo live

Paradise Rock Club, December 8, 2008
Was everything still the same? And were we?

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 12, 2008

Feel the music

We may be the last generation to give tangible tunes for Christmas
I personally find it comforting that the current number-one single in the country has a chorus that goes "I'll gas up the jet for you tonight, and baby we can go wherever you like."

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 11, 2008

Fun Funeral Rite

Amanda Palmer at the Paradise, November 24, 2008
Now it can be revealed: Amanda Palmer has a stage mom.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 02, 2008

Beyoncé | I Am . . . Sasha Fierce

Columbia (2008)
What I love about the chorus to B's current smash single, "Single Ladies" ("If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it"), are its blurry pronouns — quick, what does "it" refer to?

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 02, 2008

A different Empire

The many sounds of upstate
I grew up in central New York, and I can confirm that anyone who grows up in upstate who wants to do something interesting or awesome usually winds up doing it somewhere else

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 02, 2008

Upstate of mind

Mercury Rev dig out of Buffalo
Mercury Rev dig out of Buffalo

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 03, 2008

Guitar heroine

The shreducation of Marnie Stern
The shreducation of Marnie Stern

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | November 28, 2008

About that style . . .

Great moments in two-handed finger tapping
Marnie Stern's guitar style is notable for the two ways she breaks from the indie-rock-guitar rulebook.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | November 24, 2008

Billy, Don't Be a Hero

Smashing Pumpkins at the Wang Theatre, November 15, 2008
The second of a two-night stand in Boston, with no overlap from the previous night, the Saturday show started off with a few of Corgan's better-known tunes only to drift off into la-la land at around the halfway point.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | November 19, 2008