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Creating 'living monuments' to young lives lost

Stop the violence
Fliers adorning folding chairs at the Fourth Wall Project displayed the evening's mantra in their first sentence: This is not a party.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  November 23, 2011
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Sepalcure | Sepalcure

Hotflush Recordings (2011) 
Taste-making electronic music Web site Resident Advisor recently declared 2011 as Sepalcure's year, citing early buzz from this release, their debut LP, and solo releases by members Travis Stewart (a/k/a Machinedrum) and Praveen Sharma (a/k/a Braille).
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  November 16, 2011
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Powder Kegs: The Best Apres-Ski in New England

Our top slopeside draft picks
Give us a bucket of booze and a dance floor to replace post-mountain hangover with a more literal type of hangover.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  November 10, 2011
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Korallreven | An Album By Korallreven

Acephale (2011) 
Think of the happiest sound you've heard in your life. Maybe it's waves crashing on a serene shoreline, or the delicate rattle of wind chimes.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  November 09, 2011
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Interview: Lil B speaks

The face of based
A word to describe Lil B? Enigmatic comes close, but doesn't really suffice.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  November 03, 2011
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Our reporter discovers the freakshow within

One of us, one of us
I scare people. At an imposing 6-4, 220 pounds, first impressions typically aren't my thing.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  October 26, 2011
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Out: Fort Point channels the ambience of Oneohtrix Point Never

Boston beat party
When I left my house for work last Wednesday morning, September 28, the temperature hovered at a balmy 70 degrees.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  October 05, 2011
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Review: Jimmy Tingle's American Dream

 A comedian's life ain't nothin' but hustle and rejection
This documentary from Boston comedian Jimmy Tingle and director Vincent Straggas excels in depicting the plight of the stand-up comedian.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  October 05, 2011
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Das Racist | Relax

Greedhead (2011)
They still have jokes for days, but lyrical dexterity has taken precedence on their debut LP.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  September 20, 2011
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Review: Manhattan Short Film Festival

Running the gamut
This selection of 10 short films from around the world runs the gamut of genres, from a brisk actioner to a political documentary to playful horror.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  September 20, 2011
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Review: Rapt

Defying genre expectations
A jet-setting industrialist with a lavish gambling problem and a petty extra-marital affair.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  September 13, 2011
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Thundercat | The Golden Age of Apocalypse

Brainfeeder (2011)
"For Love I Come," a transcendent take on George Duke's 1975 fusion burner, serves as the album's centerpiece and an entry point for fans of Flying Lotus to tap into the influences he has been preaching for years — Herbie Hancock and Roy Ayers serve as the other major mid-'70s jazz-funk reference points.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  August 31, 2011
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Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

S trictly for the kiddies
Director Robert Rodriguez has made no bones about this one being strictly for the kiddies.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  August 23, 2011
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Jay-Z + Kanye West | Watch the Throne

Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella/Roc Nation (2011)
Kanye West has recently espoused the virtues of an album of raps suitable for home listening, as opposed to say club, or car listening.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  August 17, 2011
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Machinedrum | Room(s)

Planet Mu (2011)
For the uninitiated, footwork is a relatively fresh-faced distant relative of Chicago house.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  August 10, 2011
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Review: Big Shoes: Walking and Talking the Blues

 Review: Big Shoes: Walking and Talking the Blues
"Playing the blues is not for sissies." This line, muttered by guitarist and former Phoenix associate arts editor Ted Drozdowski, sets the tone about five minutes into Robert Mugge's documentary.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  June 21, 2011
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Review: Queen of the Sun


Bees are in trouble, and their livelihood has major implications on the human race
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  June 16, 2011
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Review: Yellowbrickroad

Subverting the standard horror format
Directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton appear to be trying to avoid the stereotypical standard horror-movie schlocker and do something more ambitious.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  June 02, 2011
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Review: A Beautiful Life

Chance encounters
Talk about a literal movie title.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  May 19, 2011
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Review: There Be Dragons

Overwrought Spanish Civil War epic
There be no dragons in this film. Still, that didn't stop me from wishing that a fire-breathing creature would drop in and lop off the heads of every actor in Roland Joffé's overwrought Spanish Civil War epic.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  May 06, 2011
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Kode9 and the Spaceape | Black Sun

Hyperdub (2011)
Kode9 is the most important electronic artist of the past five years.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  May 06, 2011
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