AltWeeklies Wire
Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker Display Their Indie Artifactsnew
It was on a whim roughly 25 years ago that a young David Lowery called up a friend at SST Records to see how SST had been promoting records that year.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Parish |
01-17-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Camper Van Beethoven, David Lowery
After 40 years, The Residents Ditch the Scriptnew
Even if they had closed up shop 15 years ago, the Residents would go down as some of rock's most prolific pranksters. They aped the Beatles on their 1974 debut, Meet the Residents. In 1979, they almost snagged a Grammy for a record of fake Eskimo folk tales.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Parish |
02-02-2010 |
Reviews
Players Only: A Peek Inside the World of Harmonixnew
Harmonix Music Systems is a Cambridge video-game company behind the Rock Band franchise and Guitar Hero. You may have seen the ad for its upcoming Beatles game -- it was recently playing on 100-foot screens behind Sir Paul at Fenway.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Parish |
08-19-2009 |
Video Games
