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Riot act

Girl Talk plays a little bit of everything
Girl Talk plays a little bit of everything
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  November 17, 2008
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Endless rhapsody

How Queen trumped the punks
If Queen had not existed, it would by no means have been necessary to invent them.
By JAMES PARKER  |  August 07, 2007
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Boston music news: June 15, 2007

Notes on Jim's Big Ego, Campaign for Real-Time, and, um, Mayor Menino
Jim Infantino of Jim's Big Ego is describing The Ego & the Oracle , a show he’s been staging Sundays at Jimmy Tingle’s Off Broadway.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  June 12, 2007

After Dark: Chapter One

An excerpt from Haruki Murakami's After Dark
Eyes mark the shape of the city.
By HARUKI MURAKAMI  |  May 16, 2007
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Power-surge pop

Peter Bjorn and John, Paradise Rock Club, May 4, 2007
I was expecting a restrained, polite set from the super-hyped Swedish band Peter Bjorn and John.
By WILL SPITZ  |  May 07, 2007

Floating on

Modest Mouse survive their own shipwreck
Like so many indie-rockers raised in the shadow of Northwestern clouds Isaac Brock knows a thing or two about gray skies.
By FRANKLIN SOULTS  |  April 10, 2007
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No reason to complain

Escaping corporate rock — and the panel discussions — at SxSW
There are at least two ways to approach the South by Southwest festival in Austin.
By BRETT MILANO  |  March 20, 2007
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Long live rock

The Who, TD Banknorth Garden, December 2, 2006  
Pete Townshend — slightly hunched and dripping sweat, the words “teenage wasteland” projected on a screen behind him — hit the last guitar chord of the Who’s anthem of unrepentant youthful rebellion and pride, “Baba O’Riley,” and stepped to the microphone. Slideshow: The Who at TD Banknorth Garden, December 2, 2006
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  December 04, 2006
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Robert Pollard

Normal Happiness | Merge
Only a fool would’ve taken Guided by Voices’ 2004 break-up as a reason to believe we’d heard the last from frontman Robert Pollard, a Budweiser-slugging former grade-school teacher who’s never met a three-chord hook he didn’t like. Robert Pollard, "Supernatural Car Lover"
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  November 13, 2006

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 23

The Who | the Music Hall | August 6, 1971

By PHOENIX STAFF  |  October 26, 2006
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For Pete’s sake

The return of the mighty Who
It’s been 24 years since the Who released a studio album. Townshend’s follies: Pete's pet projects. By James Parker.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 25, 2006

Townshend’s follies

Pete's pet projects

By JAMES PARKER  |  October 25, 2006
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The old and the new

The Who, T.D. Banknorth Garden, September 16, 2006
Their two hour show was a loud meditation on both youth and aging. Slideshow: The Who at TD Banknorth Garden, September 16, 2006
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  September 18, 2006
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Forward into the past!

Oldies and more in the season’s CD releases
Could it be just a coincidence that as I sit here writing this, a grizzled Bob Seger is gearing up for the release of Face the Promise , the Detroit rocker’s first proper studio album in, oh, forever and a day? The Lemonheads, "No Backbone" (mp3)
By MATT ASHARE  |  September 14, 2006
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The Who

Wire & Glass: Six Songs From A Mini-Opera | Polydor UK
Pete Townshend’s obsession with the Internet — the best place to get this import-only EP — spills into the band again.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  September 11, 2006
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The Rogers Sisters

THE INVISIBLE DECK | Too Pure  
On their 2002 debut, Purely Evil , Brooklyn’s Rogers Sisters offered an occasionally thrilling garage-fuzz take on the then-burgeoning spastic Gang of Four–mat.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  March 27, 2006
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Survival skills

The respectable return of Ray Davies
Back when his ’60s contemporaries John Lennon and Pete Townshend were making careers out of revealing their innermost thoughts, Ray Davies moved in a different direction, observing everyday life and the quietly fraught people who live it.
By ELIOT WILDER  |  February 21, 2006
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The Chris Brokaw Rock Band

Born again
Ex-Come guitarist leads indie supergroup back to slashing chords and single-note clang.  
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  February 07, 2006
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Pop toons

Puffy AmiYumi and the art of virtual stardom
"It’s like Christmas in August," gushed the vice-president of development at the Cartoon Network last summer, describing the large box packed with Mattel toys that had just been delivered to his LA office.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  January 13, 2006

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