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The soft touch of Jessie Ware
Fashioning a personal sound is a mysterious and difficult process. In Jessie Ware's case, the end result, her glistening and stirring 2012 debut, Devotion (Universal), shows just how magical this kind of alchemy can be when done right.
By:
DANIEL BROCKMAN
| January 11, 2013
Dropkick Murphys: Talking punk, place, and parochialism with the last gang in town.
The day after the world didn't end — and a couple of weeks before the January 8 release of their new album Signed and Sealed in Blood — I met up with Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey, Matt Kelly, and James Lynch at Mul's Diner in Southie.
By:
MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD
| January 10, 2013
[sound of the city] WFNX Boston Accents' Top 75 standout jams of 2012
On the Download
It was a pretty great year of Boston music in 2012.
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MICHAEL MAROTTA
| January 02, 2013
Jonathan Toubin steers his night train into Boston
There are freak accidents, and then there's the case of Jonathan Toubin.
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MICHAEL MAROTTA
| January 02, 2013
Quicksand rises from the '90s
There are two ways to go about being a post-hardcore band from the '90s.
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MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER
| December 28, 2012
No shadow on the Soft Moon
Released the day before Halloween, the Soft Moon's Zeroes is the perfect soundtrack for anyone looking to flirt with their '80s UK-goth dark side.
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JONATHAN DONALDSON
| January 10, 2013
A spectrum of sounds warms up Boston’s winter playlist
Ultimately unfounded threats of the Mayan apocalypse are in the rearview, but this winter's new Boston music survey starts with a Cult and ends with a Flood.
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MICHAEL MAROTTA
| January 07, 2013
Seasonal forecast: A wintry mix of sounds from A$AP to Depeche Mode
I think that I speak for at least some kind of majority when I say "2012, don't let the door hit ya!"
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| December 21, 2012
Label Made: The story of Captured Tracks
The corner of West and Noble is a quiet, industrial area of Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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LIZ PELLY
| January 02, 2013
Starting the party — and ending it — with Bad Rabbits
Cellars by Starlight
In late November, Boston's self-proclaimed "post-R&B" band Bad Rabbits released a new song called "We Can Roll."
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ANNIE ZALESKI
| December 21, 2012
Guest Lists: The Phoenix writers + WFNX staff select their top tracks of 2012
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PHOENIX STAFF
| January 02, 2013
2012: A melodic year in metal
For me, this year was about the riff .
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JONAH LIVINGSTON
| December 20, 2012
Coming of age with Hoodie Allen
Hoodie Allen cannot escape James Franco.
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REYAN ALI
| December 18, 2012
Surveying the stacks at Weirdo Records
Cellars by starlight
Weirdo's Mass Ave storefront feels like a glorified walk-in closet, with neon-pink walls covered in posters and shelves of CDs and LPs ranging from '60s Pakistani folk instrumentals and long-lost 1940s pop crooners to Spanish '80s punk compilations and CDs of noise recordings captured in Jamaica Plain.
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LIZ PELLY
| December 18, 2012
Banger style: Hip-hop ringers of 2012
In recapping 2012, I embraced the chance to parade some recent unsung hip-hop ringers.
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CHRIS FARAONE
| December 18, 2012
Descending into madness: National pop of 2012
Harvests are deteriorating, polar icecaps are melting, eternal global war is a way of life, and people seem to think that Japandroids are the future of rock.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| December 18, 2012
Mass appeal: Boston pop acts of 2012
The best music from our city was cultivated within the clubs of Cambridge, Allston DIY spaces, squares of Somerville, and way across the pike in Western Mass.
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MICHAEL MAROTTA
| December 19, 2012
Ten under the radar: Music overlooked in 2012
Year-end lists are so often are based solely on the records that received the most press.
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LIZ PELLY
| December 18, 2012
Chad Stokes empowers his radio
Cellars by Starlight
To say that this is a busy time for Chad Stokes is an understatement.
By:
MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER
| December 12, 2012
What's F'n Next? | The Field Effect
By now it's cliché to write about music having a "driving" force, or describing it taking you to a certain place where mundane daily occurrences could not.
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MICHAEL MAROTTA
| December 12, 2012
Eternal Summers find trust in others
Eternal Summers started as a guitar-and-drums duo in Roanoke, Virginia, in 2009.
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LIZ PELLY
| December 12, 2012
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