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Nobody

Blank Blue: Western Water Music Vol. II | Ubiquity
It’s the Monkees’ “Porpoise Song” (a track Nobody has covered) expanded into a full-blown stoner opera.
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  June 03, 2008
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Jeff Murphy

Cantilever | Black Vinyl
From Zion, Illinois, the Shoes were an odd combination of romantics and gearheads, combining classic-model pop songwriting with pristine sonics.
By BRETT MILANO  |  February 26, 2007
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Extended family

Cave In spin off
Last year, after surviving a deal with RCA and returning to indie Hydra Head, Cave In were voted Best Local Metal Band in the Phoenix /WFNX Best Music Poll. Octave Museum, "Kid Defender" (mp3)
By JEFF BREEZE  |  January 11, 2007
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Saint Steven

Over The Hills/The Bastich | Eclectic Discs
One of Boston’s more notorious late-’60s artifacts, this is the psychedelic album that a 19-year-old Steve Cataldo recorded a few years before forming the Nervous Eaters, and it’s making its CD debut on a prog-specialist UK label.
By BRETT MILANO  |  October 10, 2006
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Remembering Randy Hien

A collection of anecdotes and heartfelt farewells
In an unfathomably cruel twist of fate, longtime Living Room owner Randy Hien was killed in a car accident on Monday, September 25.
By REMEMBERING RANDY HIEN  |  September 28, 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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Bebe does the Middle East

Modest, demure and quiet
Dressed in blue jeans and a tight black top, Bebe Buell is in the dressing room last Saturday at the Middle East downstairs, applying make-up and massaging her bare feet.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  July 25, 2006
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Boys of summer

A novelist’s take on Brian Wilson
When Watertown novelist Mike Heppner needed a “spiritual guide” for his New England-set novel Pike’s Folly , he fictionalized the Beach Boys’ reclusive genius Brian Wilson.
By BRIAN KING  |  June 21, 2006

The New Cars

The new real thing
On stage, the new line-up didn’t sound like a tribute act, and neither did it sound like a Cars/Utopia hybrid. It sounded like the real thing.
By BRETT MILANO  |  June 14, 2006
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Boston music news - June 16, 2006

Notes on Bebe Buell and Bleu
Iconic rock groupie Bebe Buell taps the Rudds; Bleu heads to LA.
By SARAH TOMLINSON  |  June 14, 2006
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Bye-Bye Ric

Rundgren joins Hawkes and Easton in the New Cars
How do you revive a legendary band when the frontman isn’t interested?
By BRETT MILANO  |  May 31, 2006
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The New Cars

When old bands play new tunes
With some kind of Killer(s) neo-new wave tide now undeniably lapping at the shores of mainstream pop and its underground analogue, the return of the Cars — one of Boston’s best-known new-wave breakouts — is a no brainer.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 09, 2006

Boston music news, March 17, 2006

Notes on The Cars, Unearth, and Hallelujah the Hills
Boston rock icons the Cars will reunite for a summer tour that hits Bank of America Pavilion on May 9. There’s just one catch: standing in for Rick Ocasek, who opted out of the reunion, will be Todd Rundgren.
By SARAH TOMLINSON  |  March 14, 2006
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B.C. Camplight

HIDE, RUN AWAY  | One Little Indian
Never mind the mutant squirrel standing over a necktied, headless dude laid out like road kill in a pool of blood, his black briefcase strewn next to him.
By JONATHAN PERRY  |  February 07, 2006
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His Name Is Alive

DETROLA | Silver Mountain
About the only thing Michigan-based musician Warren Defever has kept constant in the decade and a half he’s been recording under the His Name Is Alive banner has been the name.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  February 02, 2006

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