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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
Tags: Paul Wall, The Peoples Champ
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
Tags: Everything Ecstatic, Four Tet
Redemption Songsnew
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club renew their faith in rock and roll.
Boston Phoenix |
Mac Randall |
09-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Howl
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
Tags: Bob Mould, Body of Song
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
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
Tags: Gorillaz, Demon Days
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
