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Epics in minutes

Sian Alice Group make a lot from a little (of everything)
Rupert Clervaux has made a game out of reading how people dissect his band's sound. As a multi-instrumentalist in the London collective Sian Alice Group (who come to the Middle East on Monday), he hears the whole spectrum of genres.
By REYAN ALI  |  October 13, 2009
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Major laser

Naked Raygun assess their legacy
Of Naked Raygun's many conquests, perhaps their greatest was impressing Steve Albini. In a 1992 Maximumrocknroll interview, Albini — the sharp-tongued musician/producer who, among other things, once dismissed Nirvana as "R.E.M. with a fuzzbox" and the Pixies as "blandly entertaining college rock" — offered a rare public endorsement.
By REYAN ALI  |  August 31, 2009
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Major laser

Naked Raygun assess their legacy
Of Naked Raygun's many conquests, perhaps their greatest was impressing Steve Albini. In a 1992 Maximumrocknroll interview, Albini — the sharp-tongued musician/producer who, among other things, once dismissed Nirvana as "R.E.M. with a fuzzbox" and the Pixies as "blandly entertaining college rock" — offered a rare public endorsement.
By REYAN ALI  |  August 31, 2009
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Major laser

Naked Raygun assess their legacy
Of Naked Raygun's many conquests, perhaps their greatest was impressing Steve Albini. In a 1992 Maximumrocknroll interview, Albini — the sharp-tongued musician/producer who, among other things, once dismissed Nirvana as "R.E.M. with a fuzzbox" and the Pixies as "blandly entertaining college rock" — offered a rare public endorsement.
By REYAN ALI  |  August 31, 2009
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Second summer

Catching up with discs missed
Summer's over, the kids are getting back to school and I'm loath to turn the seasonal page. The music's been terrific. New discs by Spencer and the School Spirit Mafia, Grand Hotel, dilly dilly, Samuel James, and Gypsy Tailwind have highlighted the depth and breadth of our local talent and the return of shows on the pier has reminded many of us just what a great summer town this can be.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  August 26, 2009
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Make it new!

A refresher course from the indies
Not to make too big a deal out of this or anything, but holy shit this spring is huge. Think about it: it's the first spring following a long, drawn-out winter made longer and more drawn-out by a grueling two-year election that overturned eight even longer years of dreary uncertainty and near-constant suckage.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  June 16, 2009
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Action Jackson

Screaming down the Highway, over the limit
Locally, Loverless, This Way, and now Highway Jackson are forging a bit of a rock renaissance in Portland.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  March 04, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Frequently asked questions

Pop's great rhetorical inquiries answered in uncomfortably erotic detail
Who wrote the book of love? Book of Love (1990) was a low-budget teen comedy that I rented once on a whim.
By DAVID THORPE  |  December 17, 2008
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Fast-breaking music

You heard it here first
WFNX has always been a maverick radio station.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 03, 2008

Flashbacks - February 24, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Chris Brook and Jessica McConnell.
By EDITORIAL  |  October 27, 2008
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The Baseball Project

Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails |  Yep Roc
The smart, funny, fanclub chants herein, each as catchy as Willie Mays in the ’54 Fall Classic, are gemlike tributes to the characters who’ve made that diamond shine.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  July 08, 2008
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What's that smell?

Musk turns three at the Midway
There are booty-dancing cuts from the ’80s, white girls hitting body-lock poses, and a sign slung on the taps that reads “$2.50 Cans of Mystery Beer.”
By MATT PARISH  |  June 17, 2008
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Robyn Hitchcock

Sex, Food, Death . . . and Insects | A+E
Robyn Hitchcock, in one of many illuminating moments of reflection during this 53-minute documentary, posits that his songs “don’t appeal to meatheads.”
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  May 20, 2008
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Going on sale: April 4, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Kate Walsh, Adam Green, R.E.M., and more.
By GOING ON SALE  |  April 02, 2008
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Here and now

R.E.M.’s ‘back-to-basics’ disguise
No band ever made a late-career statement of purpose just by quoting “Louie Louie” — but it never hurts.
By BRETT MILANO  |  March 24, 2008
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Déjà vu

Spring Arts Preview: R.E.M., B-52’s, Counting Crows, Breeders: what year is it again?
Prepare yourselves: R.E.M. have decided to become a rock band again.
By MATT ASHARE  |  March 10, 2008

Portland scene report: November 16, 2007

Sibilance starts now
We here in Portland know more about alt-country/indie pop than those poseurs in NYC.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  November 14, 2007
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R.E.M.

R.E.M. LIVE | Warner Bros.
Unless you’re a diehard fan, wait for their new album in the spring.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  November 13, 2007
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Difficult people

Tom Perrotta keeps his characters company through the bumps and bumbles of American life
As a reader of fiction, at this point in life I’m sort of in my late Imperial phase — a sensationalist, easily distracted, with a vulgar appetite for brilliance.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 03, 2007
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Fallout joys

When the Nirvana explosion rocked Boston
In his newly published The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock & Roll , Phoenix contributor Brett Milano explores the evolution of the local music scene.
By BRETT MILANO  |  September 18, 2007
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Hooks, harmony, and heartbreak

Squeeze and Crowded House reunite
Squeeze and Crowded House weren’t just two of the finer pop bands on the charts during the mid ’80s — they were virtually the only bands.
By BRETT MILANO  |  July 25, 2007
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Amerindie Echoes

Deerhunter, Institute of Contemporary Art, July 12, 2007
There were no frocks or fits of self-abuse on stage.
By MATT ASHARE  |  July 23, 2007
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Post-punk pantheon

Daydream Nation  tops our list of 10 landmark albums that made indie rock
They were, by definition, misfits.
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  July 16, 2007
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Dead reckoning

The dark side of Warren Zevon in biography
Crystal Zevon’s I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is the kind of biography you’d expect from Warren Zevon, who never had much use for cheap sentiment.
By BRETT MILANO  |  May 29, 2007
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To “Brooklyn” and back

Laurel Brauns travels (the East Coast) on Closed for the Season
Laurel Brauns shows it’s positively de rigueur to employ a harem of guest musicians in crafting an album that’s perfectly cohesive.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  April 11, 2007

Crossword: 'POW!'

That old familiar sound
That old familiar sound
By MATT JONES  |  November 08, 2006
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Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3

Ole! Tarantula | Yep Roc
The wonder of Robyn Hitchcock isn’t so much that he can write a line like “Fuck me baby, I’m a trolley bus” as that he can use it in a way that makes emotional sense.
By BRETT MILANO  |  October 30, 2006
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Remembering Randy Hien

A collection of anecdotes and heartfelt farewells
In an unfathomably cruel twist of fate, longtime Living Room owner Randy Hien was killed in a car accident on Monday, September 25.
By REMEMBERING RANDY HIEN  |  September 28, 2006
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On the racks: June 27, 2006

Dashboard Confessional, India.Irie, Shawnna, Grant Lee Phillips . . .
. . . and all sorts of guest stars.
By MATT ASHARE  |  June 27, 2006
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Local heroes

Mark Mulcahy, Alec K. Redfearn, and more  
Alongside the Feelies, R.E.M., and the Replacements, Mark Mulcahy’s Miracle Legion was one of the most promising of the indie bands of the mid-’80s.
By BOB GULLA  |  May 30, 2006

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