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Assault and batteries
Geoff Mullen plugs in; Lord & Karlheinz freak out
After a brief stint in Pittsburgh, guitarist and electronic musician GEOFF MULLEN is back in his native Rhode Island, and the New England music scene is so much the better for it.
By
SUSANNA BOLLE
| February 20, 2009
The Big Hurt: Marley pimped, Miley sorry, Kanye secure
Music news in brief
This goes to print a week after I write it because of the damnable pre-Web technology of the printed page, but I swear to God that I was the first son of a bitch to think of it: Jackson Browne, James Brown, Bobby Brown, Chris Brown .
By
DAVID THORPE
| February 19, 2009
Curiouser and curiouser
Sara Hallie Richardson says hello, to say goodbye
Sara Hallie Richardson, we hardly knew ye.
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SAM PFEIFLE
| February 19, 2009
Music seen: Tony McNaboe
Live at The Big Easy, February 10
By the time you, dear reader, lay eyes on this, you will have one last opportunity to catch Tony McNaboe's month-long Tuesday-night residency at the Big Easy, which — according to his prediction on week two — is "only going to get better."
By
SONYA TOMLINSON
| February 19, 2009
Accidental purist
Stephen Drury takes on Stockhausen
In one of Karlheinz Stockhausen's weirdest creations, the ensemble is instructed to "play a sound with the certainty that you have an infinite amount of time and space." Stephen Drury doesn't mind that so much. But fasting for four days? "No."
By
MATT PARISH
| February 18, 2009
Interview: Witch
Less weed, more speed
SONGS FOR THE DEAF AT AS220, COURTESY OF WITCH
By
CHRIS CONTI
| February 18, 2009
What's love got to do with it
Audrey Ryan + Strand of Oaks + Lewis & Clarke, Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, February 14, 2009
"Happy Valentine's Day. That was a saint, right? St. Valentine?" mumbled Lewis & Clarke's (wasted?) frontman/sonic adventurer, Lou Rogai.
By
MEGAN V. BELL
| February 18, 2009
N.A.S.A. | The Spirit of Apollo
Anti- (2009)
I could fill up my allotted space by simply listing the plethora of cameos, not to mention incongruous match-ups, stuffed within this Benetton ad of a debut by Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegan, a/k/a N.A.S.A.
By
ZETH LUNDY
| February 18, 2009
P.O.S. | Never Better
Rhymesayers (2009)
P.O.S. must have known he had a near-classic on his claws with Never Better .
By
CHRIS FARAONE
| February 18, 2009
Head of heads
Edu Leedz wraps up Boston hip-hop with Mass Movementz
Edu Leedz wraps up Boston hip-hop with Mass Movementz
By
CHRIS FARAONE
| February 18, 2009
A voice from on high
The second coming of Antony and the Johnsons
On his new album The Crying Light, Antony Hegarty lifts his voice without raising it.
By
DANIEL BROCKMAN
| February 18, 2009
Mujeres
Female dancers Isabel Bayón, Soledad Barrios featured in Flamenco festival
Isabel Bayón played an eternal feminine archetype, surrounding herself with proud, seductive gestures.
By
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| February 17, 2009
Live free or die!
Wild Light will be in New Hampshire if you need them
If I asked you to name six bands from New Hampshire, you'd probably draw a blank. Understandable.
By
RYAN STEWART
| February 18, 2009
Play by play: February 20, 2009
Plays A to Z
A compilation of theater productions in and around Boston
By
CAROLYN CLAY
| February 17, 2009
Review: Afro Samurai
Beautiful bloodbath
Afro Samurai , which is based on the anime of the same title, follows Afro on his quest to find the Number Two headband.
By
MADDY MYERS
| February 17, 2009
We could be heroes . . .
Superlative sobriquet overused as blanket term for all military members
With all due respect to David Bowie's lyrics — and certainly to all the men and women in the military at all levels — the concept of "hero" as it pertains to the media's use of the term has sadly become overblown.
By
PHILLIPPE AND JORGE
| February 11, 2009
Arts and culture go begging
The Portland Symphony Orchestra loses some signature events.
The Portland Symphony is in trouble. The unresolved dominant-seventh chord — a $2 million loss over the past eight years, and a possible shortfall of $220,000 this year alone — would be a setback for any company. But for the symphony, this is more than that.
By
EMILY PARKHURST
| February 11, 2009
The show goes on
Soprano Renée Fleming visits the PSO
Soprano Renée Fleming visits the PSO
By
EMILY PARKHURST
| February 11, 2009
On their way to Memphis
The Lomax mine the South, and the past, on their debut disc
Their name sort of gives them away.
By
SAM PFEIFLE
| February 11, 2009
William Friedkin at the Harvard Film Archive
William Friedkin, the New Hollywood’s most daring pulp-realist provocateur.
However we may still praise, and therefore bury, the American New Wave, we do still run the genuine risk of slipping down the wormhole slicked by present-moment techno obsessions and amnesiac entertainment-media narcissism.
By
MICHAEL ATKINSON
| February 11, 2009
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