AltWeeklies Wire
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
Northern State Keeps its Raps Realnew
It shouldn't come as a surprise that Can I Keep This Pen? is both appealing and adventurous.
Boston Phoenix |
Ian Sands |
08-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Holding Out Hopenew
Freed from the processed, saccharine pap of her contemporaries, Mandy Moore reveals a rich, warm, muscular voice and superb taste on her recent indie release.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
06-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mandy Moore, Wild Hope
New Orleans Notesnew
This year as last, the refrain at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was: "We're back." But the question still nagged: "How far 'back' are we?"
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
05-10-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
Evolution Rocknew
Jeff Tweedy takes Wilco to the next level.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Wilco, Sky Blue Sky
This Is the Best Damn Thing?new
Whatever, Avril Lavigne goes straight to the top.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
05-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Avril Lavigne, The Best Damn Thing
From Her to Eternitynew
There may have existed another woman in the 60s able to claim Brian Jones, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Lou Reed, and Iggy Pop as lovers, but she can't have been as interesting as Nico.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
04-12-2007 |
Reviews
Stockholm Callingnew
The new invasion of Swedish pop bands are poised to storm America this spring.
Boston Phoenix |
Mikael Wood |
03-01-2007 |
Music
Justify My Lovenew
He may be a guilty pleasure, but Justin Timberlake can go as far as he want to.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
02-01-2007 |
Music
The New Pop Princessnew
Paris, the album, may be evidence that one of the Hilton girls was put on this earth for reasons that go beyond the number of Swarovski crystals glued to her BlackBerry.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
08-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Paris Hilton
A Few Miles Past Tupelonew
The genre is established and the bands play on, but all may not be well down on the alt-country farm.
Boston Phoenix |
Franklin Soults |
08-03-2006 |
Music
Missionary Mannew
A 2004 documentary, Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel, just released on DVD is reviving interest (again) in one of alt-country's most influential legends.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Asharre |
08-03-2006 |
Music
Tags: Gram Parsons
Johnny Cash's Final Journeynew
Cash was an expert at finding and composing songs that got into the human spirit, and there are plenty on two new releases from the Cash archives: Personal File and American V: A Hundred Highways.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
06-28-2006 |
Reviews
Lovely Ladnew
Unlike bland international pop, the Arctic Monkeys come from a real place.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
06-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Arctic Monkeys
Rebel Bellesnew
No other performer has been as vilified as the Dixie Chicks were for speaking out -- and they do not apologize on Taking the Long Way.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
06-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way
