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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

August 9, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.

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Fuse News Feature: The Nines Festival 2013 Preview

August 7, 2013
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There’s a festival just about every weekend, it seems. The newest is The Nines Festival.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

August 2, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.

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CD Review: Dream Pop Gets Serious — the Ambitious Reach of Candy Claws

August 1, 2013
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The latest LP from the dream pop band Candy Claws turns out to be its most profound and impressive statement to date.

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Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 26, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that’s coming up this week.

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Fuse Album Review: Drone — Done In “Slow Focus”

July 23, 2013
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With “Slow Focus,” the duo steps away from the variety and lushness of their previous LPs in order to put together an alluringly bleak listening experience.

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Fuse News Music Review: Miss Tess at the Regattabar — Happy Returns

July 19, 2013
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Miss Tess and the Talkbacks — the group will be at MA’s Green River Festival on Saturday. Catch them if you can.

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Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 18, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.

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Music Review: Milo and “Cavalcade” — A Nerd Makes Superb Philosophical Hip Hop

July 16, 2013
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Milo is a young rapper who is not afraid to ruminate on the disconcerting resonances of solipsism or on the impenetrability of the writings of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

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Concert/Film Review: “West Side Story” On the Big Screens at Tanglewood

July 15, 2013
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To my ears, the Boston Symphony Orchestra—supplemented by saxophones, guitar, and mandolin—sounded overblown and unbalanced, oddly tinny at times (perhaps because of the amplification), glorious at others.

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