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Devil Music Ensemble heads to China
"Red Heroine" chic
When Boston's Devil Music Ensemble began their quest to write a live soundtrack to the 1929 Chinese silent film Red Heroine , they never would have guessed that they would end up in Beijing.
By:
JONATHAN DONALDSON
| March 07, 2012
Still an angry mob, Kaiser Chiefs get creative
Rock rebellion
Last summer, British pop veterans Kaiser Chiefs came up with a novel way to self-release their fourth full-length, The Future Is Medieval .
By:
ANNIE ZALESKI
| February 28, 2012
Deflecting feedback with the Dirty Dishes
Structurally sound
As we're all well aware by now, the window of musical-temporal referencing has sped up at an alarming rate.
By:
LUKE O'NEIL
| February 28, 2012
The Black Keys rise to the arenas
Key bumps
When it was announced that the Black Keys were headlining the TD Garden, it looked like a mistake.
By:
MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER
| February 28, 2012
Getting glitchy with Mindless Self Indulgence
Horror business
I once thought all music that wasn't performed by three-to-five angry dudes with guitars and a drum kit was stupid.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| February 28, 2012
8 new records that will give Boston rock a charge
High voltage
Boston's going through an identity crisis; never has the city's music scene been so diverse, its sonic landscape so eclectic.
By:
MICHAEL MAROTTA
| March 07, 2012
A Far Cry rocks harder than your favorite band. But can they save classical music from itself?
A young person's guide to the orchestra
Night falls in Jamaica Plain. The drunks are flicking cigarettes on the sidewalk outside the Jeanie Johnston pub; on the corner, Santería devotees are buying candles at the Botanica San Miguel. And in between, in a leased storefront, 17 classical musicians are losing their fucking minds to Haydn.
By:
S.I. ROSENBAUM
| February 23, 2012
George Clinton takes a victory lap through Boston
Dr. Funkenstein, PhD
We are all George Clinton's babies.
By:
CHRIS FARAONE
| February 23, 2012
Deciphering beauty in the Life and Times
Into the vast beyond
You're standing at the edge of a vast canyon.
By:
LUKE O'NEIL
| February 21, 2012
Exploring staged improvisation with Javelin
Ping-pong sounds
In the spicy euphoria following a Valentine's Day dinner date last week (real-deal bibimbap), Javelin's Tom Van Buskirk and his date tried to hold their own in a Los Angeles Korean table-tennis club.
By:
JONATHAN DONALDSON
| February 21, 2012
Boston experiences an indie-label resurgence
DIY or die
Jonah Livingston was a student at Northeastern's Music Industry program when his next-door neighbor told him that his band, Raise the Curtain, had a record but didn't know what to do with it.
By:
NINA MASHUROVA
| February 21, 2012
Moving on with Stephie Coplan & the Pedestrians
Turning the page
When Stephie Coplan was 14 years old, the empty pages in her first songwriting book were as much an escape as they were a creative outlet.
By:
MICHAEL MAROTTA
| February 15, 2012
Identifying with the sonic haze of Crocodiles
Psychic reaction
There are loads of bands out there that defy, don't want, and often downright despise categorization.
By:
MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER
| February 15, 2012
In Flames craft an evolving breed of metal
Still spreading
Face it: metal bands are just brands, and to the headbanging hordes, you are only as good as your last breakdown — unless you can concoct a memorable musical identity to stand above the competition.
By:
DANIEL BROCKMAN
| February 15, 2012
The Overdub Tampering Committee
How a group of Boston musicians exacted their weird price from the world of online music sharing — without actually doing a thing
Armed with an idea, a hastily written manifesto, a press release, and some software to disguise my computer's IP address, I was able to raise the question, "How do you know that what you're illegally downloading is the actual music it claims to be?" This is a story about how my pop-music infatuation led me to fabricating a web of lies I called the Overdub Tampering Committee.
By:
RYAN WALSH
| February 15, 2012
At home with Sharon Van Etten
Lady and her Tramp
Sharon Van Etten is peeling an orange in her South Brooklyn apartment.
By:
LIZ PELLY
| February 15, 2012
[in memoriam] Whitney Houston, 1963-2012
"The biggest devil is me," is how Houston famously summed up her life's dilemma
Whitney Houston, who passed away this weekend of still-to-be-determined causes at the too-young age of 48, made an art out of depicting heroic triumph over adversity in her music
By:
DANIEL BROCKMAN
| February 13, 2012
The Top 100 Emo Songs of All Time
A bummer ... but in an awesome way
Emo is a lot like pornography ...
By:
PHOENIX STAFF
| February 09, 2012
A punk phenomenon grows up
Punk is dead, right?
It's time we faced it: the vanguards of rock have gotten really old.
By:
DANIEL BROCKMAN
| February 08, 2012
All emo is local
Five scenes that grew organically
Remember the years before blog-rock, when scenes and sounds developed geographically?
By:
LIZ PELLY
| February 08, 2012
Emo: it might as well be a four-letter word
De-evolution
Back in 2001, when Bleed American was exploding all over modern-rock radio, I sat down with Jimmy Eat World guitarist Tom Linton and frontman Jim Adkins and asked about the emo label with which their group had been saddled.
By:
MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER
| February 08, 2012
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