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Dear Hunter Returns With a Backing Bandnew
Casey Crescenzo creates a sprawling album that never settles on one style, changing from full-throttle prog-rock, skittish emo-rock and acoustic-blues excursions.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
08-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Solitary Man?new
It's easy to forget just how hard it’s been to pin down Neil Diamond over the years.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
01-05-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Neil Diamond
Beatle Zanianew
Wisconsin-based Beatallica are ruining the Beatle cover-band racket.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
12-06-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Beatallica
Men in Blacknew
Bauhaus is back, and whether or not they actually invented goth doesn't really matter.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
11-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bauhaus
System of a Down: The Problem With Being Politicalnew
System of a Down talk about music, politics, and being misunderstood.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
08-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Burning House of Folknew
X’s acoustic alter ego release their first album in two decades.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
08-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Black on Blonde?new
Pixies frontman Frank Black has taken the Pixies' triumphant return as an opportunity to release a Dylan-esque solo album of new material recorded in Nashville with a band of seasoned sessionmen.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
08-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Frank Black, Honeycomb
Dinosaur Jr. Bury the Hatchetnew
The Phoenix examines the legacy of three geeks from Northampton, goes to rock therapy with the band, and gets the story behind their masterpiece, Bug.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
07-05-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pop in a Hard Placenew
The Phoenix talks with the latter-day piano man about his new CD and rock stardom.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
05-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Classy Reunionsnew
The New York Dolls and Gang of Four return to rock. The Phoenix interviews the Dolls's David Johansen and Gang of Four's Hugo Burnham.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
05-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Conversation Pieces: Tori Amos in Song and Otherwisenew
The quirky diva discusses her new CD, her new book, her many frames of reference, terrorists and orange knickers.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
04-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Legendary Parts: The Slint Legacy Becomes Realitynew
Slint has reunited for a tour. When they called it quits in 1991, that wasn’t headline news. Over the next dozen years, however, they would take on a legendary, almost sacred status.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
03-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Killing Time: Ike Reilly Assassination is America's Best-Kept Secretnew
Critics have had a hard time deciding whether the Ike Reilly Assassination are the best bar band in America or, more potently, a vehicle for a gifted songwriter to fuse the wise-ass ramblings of Dylan with the lovable underachiever fight songs of the Replacements.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
03-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Black is Backnew
The Pixies' leader talks about the break-up, the reunion, and the band's return to Boston.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
11-29-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Sun Shines on R.E.M.new
Michael Stipe talks about how R.E.M. regained its footing as the enigmatic yet accessible pop band that made the journey from indie-rockdom to major-label stardom.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
10-28-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: r.e.m., Around the Sun
