Jerks of Grass deliver a disc 10 years in the making.
Other than two tracks on the Greetings from Area Code 207 series, there has been nothing to bring home and put on the stereo for fans of what has been at times Portland’s hardest-working band.
By SAM PFEIFLE | July 23, 2008

Fight song

Letters to the Boston editor, July 25, 2008
Your total inability to recognize deserving candidates has me . . . amused?
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | July 23, 2008

Islander

Julie Hecht’s self-help
There’s still time to spend some of your summer with Julie Hecht.
By JON GARELICK | July 22, 2008

Preacher Jack gets it from on high

Boston rock legend and 66-year-old piano wrangler keeps hammering the keys
“I get my energy directly from Jesus,” says Preacher Jack Coughlin.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | July 02, 2008

Backwoods Barbie

Dolly Parton rolls out the big guns
Dolly Parton should run for president.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | April 30, 2008

Who’s that girl (now)?

Madonna pulls some Hard Candy from her purse
I’d wager that Madonna is not much of a fun person.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | April 29, 2008

Darien Brahms + American Music Club

Music seen at SPACE Gallery, April 21, 2008
Not to diminish where she is right now, but Darien Brahms would make one hell of a novelty dive-bar act in 20 years.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | April 23, 2008

The big hurt: Music news in brief

Wal-Mart wanes, Satan wins, Weiland whines
Those of us still chuckling over DMX's “your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack” diatribe are in for another dose of ill-informed rapper cuteness.
By DAVID THORPE | April 15, 2008

Rough power

Bill Gage has Down syndrome. And his band rocks
Watching Bill Gage perform with his band, BILL, is an eye-opening experience.
By IAN SANDS | March 27, 2008

The Big Hurt: Neglected press-release roundup

Music news that only a publicist could love
Nothing shakes off the doldrums like a short vacation to the bottom of the press-release barrel.
By DAVID THORPE | March 24, 2008

Arabesque

The Music of the Three Musketeers | Xauen
It’s a performance powerful enough to transport you to another era.
By ANGELA SAWYER | February 26, 2008

Unauthorized!

Axl Rose, Albert Goldman, and the renegade art of rock biography
I think it may have been sometime in the 1970s that the term “unauthorized” became sort of cool.
By JAMES PARKER | February 15, 2008

Intro to Kill Your Idols: The Unauthorized Biography of Albert Goldman by James Parker

By JAMES PARKER | February 13, 2008

Cover girls

Cat Power and Shelby Lynne
On Cat Power’s second album of covers, she might be traveling the same territory Elvis did in “Kentucky Rain” — a country road with low clouds on a chill, gray afternoon.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | February 04, 2008

The cuteness surge

Why, in desperate times, we turn to lolcats, twee songs, and mute kittens
Cuteness, of course, is the collective cultural cure-all to our problems.
By SHARON STEEL | February 01, 2008

Bright dreams

The longings of mistreated women cannot be Eclipsed
Across white sheets strung on clotheslines, cool light falls from a window, as if over the most susceptible fabric of memory.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 23, 2008

Karen Beebe

Almost famous

By FRANK MULLIN | January 09, 2008

Myth and legend

Portland theatre: 2007 in review
With no ado, here are some of the last year’s theatrical highlights.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 19, 2007

Live and kicking

Live reviews: 2007 in review
Yes, we suffer from an embarrassment of riches when it come to live music here in the Boston area.
By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 17, 2007

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