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Mission Of Burma at Pitchfork Music Fest, Union Park, Chicago, July 18, 2008
The band, as always, sounded fantastic, especially if you’d been listening to the record all week in preparation.
By DEVIN KING | July 22, 2008

Remasters of the universe

The ‘definitive’ Mission of Burma
The adage “All things come to those who wait” tends not to find too many useful applications in rock and roll.
By MATT ASHARE | June 09, 2008

In with the new

Mission of Burma, Institute of Contemporary Art, September 23, 2007
Mission of Burma left the building last Sunday without playing the “hits.”
By JIM SULLIVAN | September 24, 2007

Mission Of Burma

Not A Photograph — The Mission Of Burma Story| MVD
This well-done documentary traces the beatific arc of Mission of Burma’s evolution from a clutch of scrappy punk outfits to one highly creative scrappy art-punk outfit to ashes to current resurrection.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | December 28, 2006

Boston music news: September 15, 2006

Notes on Mission of Burma, Beat Circus, and Smoke or Fire
Mission of Burma, who’ve sold about 20,000 copies of their latest Matador CD, The Obliterati , begin a seven-date West Coast swing this week. Mission of Burma, "Donna Sumeria" (mp3)
By JIM SULLIVAN | September 14, 2006

Legendary restarts

Mission of Burma drop the second CD of their second career
If back in 2001 you’d told me or just about any other right-minded music fan that the legendary Mission of Burma would have two new studio albums to their name within five years, the polite response would have been, “Yeah, right.”
By JIM SULLIVAN | May 26, 2006

Mission statements

Brazilian funk, Missy Elliott, and other things you wouldn’t expect to find in Mission of Burma’s record crates
You can tell a lot by a man’s record collection, and even more by his DJ set. And if not? Well, you still got to hear the new Burma record The Obliterati at the Enormous Room.
By CARLY CARIOLI | May 24, 2006

Not a Photograph: The Mission of Burma Story

Acclaimed Boston post-punk rockers get reunion documented
This music documentary from David Kleiler Jr. and Jeff Iwanicki about three (sometimes four) self-depreciating Boston guys who never in a million years expected to be making music in 2002, to say nothing of 2006, is a great story with a real arc.
By JIM SULLIVAN | April 19, 2006