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Pop Music Review: Death Cab For Cutie Drives With the Big Boys

July 9, 2011
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Death Cab for Cutie’s newest album isn’t a big departure from their usual sound, but it is a step in their evolution: the group has a new theme — adulthood.

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Music Review: Bon Iver is “Not Magnificent,” but Transcendental

July 9, 2011
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Sitting down this evening to review “Bon Iver,” something happened. My strongly negative initial impressions of the album changed into an appreciation of the mystical spirit of the music, its harmonious chords and their reflection of the harmony of nature.

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Music Review: My Morning Jacket’s Victory Dance — The Glory of Hodgepodge

July 6, 2011
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“The Day Is Coming” continues the album’s momentum. Similar to “Victory Dance,” the song starts with a chorus of odd vocals. However, these are catchier, and are soon followed by the arrival of spastic guitar, pounding drums, and chord-tastic pianos.

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Theater Review: Houston, We Have a Problem with “2010: Our Hideous Future: The Musical!”

July 3, 2011
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Enthusiasm simply wasn’t enough to salvage the production — the musical comedy 2010 contains too many pitfalls to overcome.

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Coming Attractions in Underground Music: July 2011

June 27, 2011
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July brings lots of psychedelic rock music. Be sure to check out the Gang Gang Dance show if you can.

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Classical Music Review: Musical Power Couple Wow Rockport

June 27, 2011
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This was ensemble playing by two people who knew not only the music, but each other completely. There are some things you can’t fake, and one is ensemble playing with a person — or people — you love. (I speak from experience here). Everything was perfect.

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Classical Music Sampler: July 2011

June 27, 2011
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July is a month when most of the great classical music is happening in pastoral settings and festivals around New England and far from Boston.

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Fuse Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival, Part Two, Exhibition and The Boston Camerata

June 21, 2011
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BEMF is, quite simply, paradise for those who love early music, and they seem to be a different audience than those who show up for, say, the Boston Symphony or any of the excellent chamber music groups around town.

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Classical Music Review: Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin Seduces Rockport

June 20, 2011
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For decades, Mr. Hamelin was known for his forbiddingly fabulous technique deployed to play and record vast swaths of immensely difficult and arcane repertoire that most pianists had rarely touched or even known of. Then, the past few years, he ventured into the standard repertoire with astonishing results.

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Fuse Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival: Part One

June 15, 2011
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The Boston Early Music Festival is THE place for performers to be heard. And there are enough good programs, between the big Jordan Hall concerts, the two operas, a Family Day program, the mini-festivals for organ and keyboard, fringe concerts at at odd hours of the day and late night, for everyone.

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