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Can classical be underground?

Portsmouth's Navona Records releases an indie aesthetic for orchestra
At least one of the reasons many of us contemporary-music fans don't get into classical music is because it seems like no one wants us to listen to it.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  November 14, 2008
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Hearts of gold

Pete Kilpatrick Band make like Obama and hope
Pete Kilpatrick’s burgeoning career is a microcosm of the near-chaos that is the current state of the music industry.  
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  October 02, 2008
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Festival casualties ’08!

A grim reminder that rock can still maim you
A young man died of meningitis, which doctors believe he contracted by sharing joints with contagious hippies at the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival.
By DAVID THORPE  |  July 21, 2008
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Popular douches, hetero boyfriends, and softie gangstas

The Big Hurt tackles Tori Amos, Pete Wentz, and Ice Cube
I invite those of you who hate me to take a moment to delight in my pain.
By DAVID THORPE  |  June 17, 2008
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Keys to our hearts

Interview: Alicia Keys on first love, the White Stripes, and being a Bob Dylan muse
"I’ve never been someone that goes to the ‘it’ places and does the ‘it’ things and goes to the ‘it’ restaurant and go to the ‘it’ club. I like more off-the-beaten-path kind of things."
By JASON O'BRYAN  |  June 06, 2008
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Dance, Monkey: Dan Hirshon

We put a visiting comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
Marriages don’t always turn out the way you think they’re going to. Make sure you have a way out of it if things don’t go as planned.
By SARAH FAITH ALTERMAN  |  May 13, 2008

Guitars are from Mars, Feist and Björk are from Venus

A musical battle of the sexes
It’s 3 am. Do you know if you’re a man or a woman?
By JAMES PARKER AND SHARON STEEL  |  March 19, 2008
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Call and response

Satisfying a growing crowd with a Playtime Music Session
We’ve had the pleasure here in Portland of watching a number of great singer/songwriters develop their careers into something substantial recently.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  February 20, 2008
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Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007

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Every so often in Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 you can see the beaming host, Eric Clapton, behind a stack of amps shooting photos of his fellow performers.
By JEFF TAMARKIN  |  January 22, 2008
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Happy endings

Bad news begets good tunes
The end is nigh! And I’m not talking about the mortgage market.
By MATT ASHARE  |  September 12, 2007
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So wrong they're Righteous

These brothers make their own rules
Less than two years into their existence, the Self-Righteous Brothers already have a press kit worth of raves.
By BRETT MILANO  |  July 25, 2007

Brett Dennen + Pete Kilpatrick

Music seen at Space, July 21, 2007
Brett Dennen looks alarmingly young despite wardrobe choices that reference Jimi Hendrix.
By SONYA TOMLINSON  |  July 25, 2007
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Live Earth 2007

Where to go, who to see, what to know — even if you don't have a ticket
So you’re headed to a Live Earth gig somewhere, whether outside New York City or in a remote outpost in Antarctica.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  July 10, 2007
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Going on sale: May 4, 2007

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Mirah, John Mayer, Goo Goo Dolls, and more.
By GOING ON SALE  |  April 30, 2007
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Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

Cheesier than a capella Coldplay
It’s not so much the music that’s annoying about college a cappella (though it’s that, too).
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  April 25, 2007
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Going on sale: April 6, 2007

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Flyleaf, Great Lake Swimmers, Elvis Costello, and more.
By GOING ON SALE  |  April 03, 2007

Voicing dissent

Letters to the Boston editor: March 23, 2007
I have no beef with your story “ Culture War .”
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  March 21, 2007
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Making a connection

Phil Ayoub follows his Heart
He has a fan club and an MBA, which might not make all that much sense.
By BOB GULLA  |  March 07, 2007
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The flying Scotsman

Paolo Nutini soars across the pond
“I don’t usually come across as all that interesting in interviews,” admits 20-year-old Paolo Nutini over the phone from a gig in Stockholm.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  January 29, 2007
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Sex, Iraq, and pop culture

The war for our attention
How many times a day do you think about sex? How many times a day do you think about the war in Iraq?
By ELLEE DEAN  |  January 11, 2007

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