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Fast-breaking music

You heard it here first
WFNX has always been a maverick radio station.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | December 03, 2008

Metallica

Death Magnetic | Warner Bros.
It’s hard to say who detests Metallica more.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | September 10, 2008

13 shots to the dome

The 10 hours and 29 minutes of LL Cool J’s career
What to do with LL Cool J?
By RICHARD BECK | September 03, 2008

Hot Diamond-on-Diamond action
First song: “Sweet Caroline”— that Fenway anthem that booms throughout the park in the middle of every eighth inning. An hour later, Diamond played the thing again “for anyone who came late to the show.” And then, one more time .
By JIM SULLIVAN | August 29, 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

Déjà vu

Spring Arts Preview: R.E.M., B-52’s, Counting Crows, Breeders: what year is it again?
Prepare yourselves: R.E.M. have decided to become a rock band again.
By MATT ASHARE | March 10, 2008

Dan Wilson

Free Life | American/Sony
It’s as if he were trying to impress mom while keeping the kids at bay.
By KEN MICALLEF | November 19, 2007

Chairmen of the boards

Our critics pick the 14 producers with the fattest, meanest beats
Not unlike Swedish, Tagalog, and Esperanto, music is a language, with its own conjugations and (lewdly) dangling participles.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | October 18, 2007

The big apple

iTunes is still the answer
With his big, bearish presence and Buddha-like air of reflective certitude, Rick Rubin has been christened savior of the music industry.
By MATT ASHARE | September 04, 2007

Cooking with Joe

Aerosmith’s lead guitarist has grill, will travel
Some rock stars travel with personal chefs. Joe Perry brings a grill — a Weber.
By MATT ASHARE | September 04, 2007

Devilution

Glenn Danzig reveals his Lost Tracks
There’s an interesting moment in the new memoir by former Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, when the author finds himself on tour with Danzig and Marilyn Manson.
By JAMES PARKER | July 09, 2007

2007 Best National Act

Red Hot Chili Peppers

By MIKAEL WOOD | May 31, 2007

American classic

Charlie Louvin returns
How old-school is Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Louvin?
By TED DROZDOWSKI | March 06, 2007

Having more fun

Lucinda Williams goes West
By the time Car Wheels on a Gravel Road came out, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris, and Tom Petty had all recorded Williams’s songs.
By MATT ASHARE | February 13, 2007

Justify my love

He already brought sexy back. Now can Justin Timberlake shed his boy-band image and become a music legend?
Oh, Justin. Even you know that your undeniable charisma and brilliantly executed choreography somehow balance out your post-boy-band status and lack of indie cred. Justin Timberlake on Saturday Night Live, "Dick in a Box" (YouTube)
By SHARON STEEL | February 05, 2007

On the racks: November 21, 2006

Army of Anyone, Joanna Newsom, the Game, (+44)
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead
By MATT ASHARE | November 21, 2006

All access pass

Richard McCaffrey’s “Troubadours, Rockers & Punks”
Rock and roll in black-and-white and in color comes to town this week, when Providence-based photographer Richard McCaffrey presents a show of his best work at the Dryden Gallery.
By BOB GULLA | November 15, 2006

Decemberist daddy

Donovan’s endless ’60s
Donovan has never seemed to be quite of this world, since his best-known songs take place either in the skies (“First There Is a Mountain”), underwater (“Atlantis”), or within inner space (“Sunshine Superman”).
By BRETT MILANO | November 13, 2006

Brazilian punk

Edu K helps baile funk survive hipsterdom
That rumbling, booty-shaking bass, the whip-thwap drums, the familiar melodies with Portuguese lyrics. It’s called baile funk, and if you’ve been to a hip DJ show lately, you’ve probably heard it. Edu K, "Hot Mama (Bonde do Role mix)" (mp3)
By DAVID DAY | October 03, 2006

Evil incarnate

Slayer stick to their Satanic program
Metal reveres above all the single mind, undivided by doubt or the gentle dialectics of sanity.
By JAMES PARKER | September 28, 2006

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