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The other side of the Bear cures the Mondays
For years now, T.T. the Bear's Place has boldly addressed the problem of what to do on Monday nights, when one's brainmeats are still tender from all that weekending.

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | February 03, 2009

Dig it!

Diamond Mines shine all month at the Plough
According to the invoice, 500 copies of the Diamond Mines’ brand new EP, Pave the Whales for Oil , were sent from Syracuse to Boston on January 6 — two whole days ahead of the projected ship date!

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | January 28, 2009

Ride the Snake

Label moves towards reality
The ancient lake has no idea what it's got coming.

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | February 09, 2009

This old house

Rise celebrates 10 years on the edge
You wouldn't know it, but throbbing away in the upper two floors of that tiny wedge of a building splitting Stuart Street and Columbus Avenue is Rise: Boston's only after-hours nightclub.

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | January 12, 2009

Irish, but not Celtic

Gems from the Emerald Isle
With the Boston Celtic Music Festival taking over a host of venues January 9 and 10 it can be easy to forget that not all Irish music is . . . Celtic music.

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | January 09, 2009

Jingle spells

Harry and the Potters' 4th Annual Yule Ball
Nothing screams Christmas like children dabbling with sorcery. Which is why Harry and the Potters' annual Yule Ball is such a howling success every year.

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 19, 2008

They'd like to thank their producers...

Selected winners of the Boston Music Awards
Selected winners of the Boston Music Awards

By CHRIS FARAONE | December 16, 2008

ohGr

Tracing Ogre’s trajectory
Skinny Puppy's Nivek Ogre has made the rounds for the better part of this decade as ohGr, with a more cut-and-paste approach to the electric misanthropy his old band pioneered.

By MATT PARISH | December 05, 2008

Radio days

Will C.’s beyond-fresh Down the Dial comp
Will C was born 20 years too late and four skin tones too light.

By CHRIS FARAONE | November 26, 2008

The future is blight

The post-Americanan kicks of Castanets
What with all the Devendras and Bonnie Princes and Phosphorescents and wanna-Beams dragging their unruly beards around the nation lately, it's getting harder and harder to keep your post-folk dudes with guitars straight.

By MICHAEL BRODEUR | November 24, 2008