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Coveting Cuomonew
On Make Believe, celebrated frontman Rivers Cuomo reaches out beyond Weezer's core audience.
Boston Phoenix |
Nick Sylvester |
05-20-2005 |
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
Waxing Prophetic: Edan Makes Hip-Hop For Art's Sakenew
"This shit is a majestic art form," Edan maintains of hip-hop, "and it has the potential to encapsulate the most intricate musical ideas."
Boston Phoenix |
Nick Sylvester |
05-06-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Downloading: Why Mercury Rev Embrace Itnew
The way Mercury Rev and their record label, V2, have gone about releasing The Secret Migration, doling out the songs in several small doses, creating an aura of limited-edition collectibility, is unprecedented.
Boston Phoenix |
Mac Randall |
05-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mercury Rev, The Secret Migration
Can Dizzee Rascal And Co. Turn East London's Hip-Hop Into World Music?new
Although grime is still in its infancy, grime MCs kill hip-hop MCs on the mike -- they’re faster, cleverer, and less burdened by tradition. Dizzee Rascal is touring the U.S. as East London's ambassador of grime.
Boston Phoenix |
Nick Sylvester |
04-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Garbage: A Band's Struggle To Reinvent Itselfnew
Garbage return with a renewed sense of purpose. Ken Micallef talks with Butch Vig.
Boston Phoenix |
Ken Micallef |
04-14-2005 |
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
Where the Chords Have No Namesnew
Jon Garelick interviews guitarist Pat Metheny about his group's new magnum opus, The Way Up.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
03-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pat Metheny Group, The Way Up
Homme Sweet Homme: Queens of the Stone Age Interviewnew
Repetition saturates Queens of the Stone Age's new album Lullabies To Paralyze like a recurring nightmare.
Boston Phoenix |
Ken Micallef |
03-24-2005 |
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
Rapstreet Boys: 50 Cent and the Game Diss and Tellnew
The question is this: Outside the WWE, what’s the last time such a massively unimportant feud occurred between two jacked dudes with stage names, shifty alliances, and self-mythologies that are way more entertaining than their actual skills?
Boston Phoenix |
Nick Sylvester |
03-21-2005 |
Music
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
Over There: New Jersey’s A Girl Called Eddy Heard London Callingnew
New Jersey native Erin Moran grew up listening to albums by English women with a knack for singing about immense emotion without necessarily sounding like it. So when she signed a deal with a publishing company based in England a few years ago, Moran, who performs under the name A Girl Called Eddy, thought it was a great excuse to move to London.
Boston Phoenix |
Mikael Wood |
03-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A Girl Called Eddy
Major Indie Rock: Hot Hot Heat Take their Quirks to the Massesnew
Indie in ethos, acts like Franz Ferdinand, the Postal Service, the Walkmen, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs made unprecedented mainstream media inroads in 2004. Now, Elevator, Hot Hot Heat’s major-label follow-up to 2002’s Make Up the Breakdown, could be indie’s next major commercial success.
Boston Phoenix |
Nick Sylvester |
03-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hot Hot Heat, Elevator
