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Men of Mysterynew

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ride a quiet wave of on-line hype.
Boston Phoenix  |  Camille Dodero  |  10-24-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

Fortunate Sonsnew

Franz Ferdinand are this year's Franz Ferdinand.
Boston Phoenix  |  Scott Frampton  |  10-03-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

Paul Wall Emerges as Houston Hip-Hop’s Great White Hopenew

Paul Wall is a diminutive, diamond-grilled DJ/MC who while maintaining the sonic sensibility of Houston’s other rappers presents one notable difference: he's white. Wall’s success has run parallel to a renewed Northern interest in Houston rap.
Boston Phoenix  |  Chris Nelson  |  09-27-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

Tweak-a-Boonew

Kieran Hedben’s unwillingness to reside at any one extreme defines his fourth Four Tet album, which eschews the "folktronica" style he’s been saddled with in favor of something as hard to pin down as Hebden himself.
Boston Phoenix  |  Tony Ware  |  09-20-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

Redemption Songsnew

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club renew their faith in rock and roll.
Boston Phoenix  |  Mac Randall  |  09-12-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

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

Monkee Businessnew

The Click Five aim to be big — really big, arena big, MTV big.
Boston Phoenix  |  Scott Frampton  |  08-12-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

Deft Punknew

With loud rock guitars, buoyant melodies and touches of electronica, former Husker Du frontman Bob Mould wrestles with his muse in his new solo album.
Boston Phoenix  |  Mikael Wood  |  08-09-2005  |  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

Rock's Minimalist Master: The Expansive Influence of Brian Enonew

From his first conceptual recording in 1965 -- the slowed-down sound of a metal lamp stand being struck overdubbed with a friend reading a poem -- to his new Another Day on Earth, Brian Eno has had an amazing run as a composer, musician, producer, and sonic artist.
Boston Phoenix  |  Ted Drozdowski  |  07-12-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

DJ Danger Mouse Goes From Grey to Technicolornew

The Grey Album not only put a beatsmith with just one disc to his name on pop culture’s front burner, it got Brian Burton an offer to produce Demon Days, the new album by the faux cartoon band Gorillaz.
Boston Phoenix  |  Simon William Vozick-Levinson  |  07-05-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

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

Billy Corgan Unleashes His Inner Hendrixnew

The Phoenix talks with Billy Corgan about his solo debut.
Boston Phoenix  |  Ted Drozdowski  |  06-23-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

Punk Elegies for the '00snew

The Warrior's Code takes somber subjects -- war and the soldiers who fight it, urban poverty, fallen friends -- and sets them to the bruising but melodic punk that's the Dropkicks' stock-in-trade.
Boston Phoenix  |  Mike Miliard  |  06-21-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

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