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Film Review: “4×4” — Pedal to the Metal

Despite its potential for black comedy or moral sermonizing, 4×4 remains a gripping suspenser.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: 4X4, Mariano Cohn

Coming Attractions in Popular Music: October 2011

The picks in pop music in Boston this month all have something in common: storytelling. How did Deadmau5 get stuck with that 5 at the end of his name? What does a Portuguese acronym have to do with the band CSS? And what does Minus the Bear have against bears?

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Popular Music Tagged: CSS, Dead Maüs, Dead Mouse, Dum Dum Girls, Minus the Bear

Coming Attractions in Popular Music: September 2011

Disaster can come in many forms. Whether it’s a hurricane, an earthquake or an MTV award show, we don’t like them. Luckily, there’s a lot of great music coming to New England this September; the disasters can stay away. Here at the picks in pop music for the month.

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Popular Music, Rock Tagged: blues, Bombay Bicycle Club, Chazwick Bundick, country, Empire of the Sun, Imelda May, Toro y Moi

Coming Attractions in Popular Music: March 2011

It could be easy to say the outlook is grim, what with all that’s going on in the world. However, even though the Ides of March are quickly approaching, that would be overlooking all the good things happening this month. For example, it was in March, almost 100 years ago, that the first American successfully […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Baby Shakes, Dum Dum Girls, Eksi Ekso, Lady Gaga, Pepper Rabbit, Popular Music, Ra Ra Riot, Travie McCoy

Coming Attractions in Popular Music: February 2011

After January’s brief hibernation, the pop music coming attractions column is back for the month of February to deliver what you crave: music, sweet music. (Cue dancing in the street.) Wait . . . what’s that you say? The streets are covered in snow? No problem: there are plenty of places to dance indoors while […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Best Coast, Coming Attractions, jack White, Music, Nicos Gun, Popular Music, Wanda jackson

Coming Attractions in Popular Music: December 2010

The Ups and Downs of the biz. At this time of year it’s easy to question your choice of residence in sun-deprived New England. The cold, the wet, and the absence of vitamin D in your skin rattles through to your bones and leaves you asking, can we just skip to June already? You are […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Popular Music Tagged: As Tall As Lions, Badly Drawn Boy, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Naked on Roller Skates, Weezer

Coming Attractions in Popular Music: November 2010

Boston’s pop music scene in November has an international flair. Multiple groups from the UK who specialize in folk and electropop join bands from Spain and Ireland in coming to Boston this fall. While the picks for this month all have roots abroad, these acts make the Fall months of Boston that much more inviting. […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Dance, Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Bruno Mars, Elly Jackson, La Roux, Mumford and Sons, Thomas Samph

Coming Attractions in Popular Music: September 2010

Even though it’s the time of year when the T is clogged with wide-eyed college freshman trying to find Faneuil Hall, there are still lots of great shows to go see in Boston. By Thomas Samph This month’s selection of pop music begins with an up-and-coming female pop act from the UK whose Family Jewels […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: CAKE, Family Jewels, Jason Derülo, Marina and the Diamonds, Phantogram, Thomas Samph, Vampire Weekend

Coming Attractions: Popular Music in August 2010

Ambient indie-pop and summery surf sounds take over Boston in the second half of August. By Thomas Samph August 13, Deerhunter at Royale At a Deerhunter show, the sight of frontman Bradford Cox’s skeleton-like figure striding on to the stage through a thick mist (sometimes wearing a dress) is as ethereal and spooky as his […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Beach Fossils, Deerhunter, Great Scott, indie pop, indie rock, Middle-East, O'Brien's, Popular Music, Royale, Stereo Total, Tennis, The Ropes, Thomas Samph

Coming Attractions: Popular Music in July 2010

July Music/Musica en Julio/Musica em Julho By Thomas Samph With the temperatures peaking into the 90s in New England, here is some pop music that’s meant to be enjoyed in the heat. These acts (with the exception of one) all have their roots in warmer places: Latin music infused with funk and jazz, Spanish electronic […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Jazz, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Delorean, Forro in the Dark, Jose Conde y Ola Fresca, Lady Gaga, Latinova, Seu Jorge, Thomas Samph

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