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Pop Album Review: Beach House’s “Once Twice Melody” — Plenty of the Same Old Good Thing

March 28, 2022
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Once Twice Melody goes about refining rather than changing Beach House’s vision of dream pop.

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Concert Review/Interview: America at Lowell Memorial Auditorium

March 28, 2022
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In Lowell, America played to a packed, enthusiastic, Centrum Silver-popping crowd who sang along with the band’s impressively deep roster of hits.

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Concert Review: Billy Strings Blesses Roadrunner, Memorably

March 17, 2022
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Where Roadrunner goes from here remains to be seen, but Billy Strings did his part to open the room with a bang of a blessing.

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Rock Concert Review: Gang of Four — Still Incendiary

March 9, 2022
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Forty years down the line, looking both backward and forward with its latest formation, Gang of Four still knew how to live a bit dangerously.

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Book Review: “Frank & Co” (Mr. Mother of Invention Speaks His Mind)

February 26, 2022
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Frank Zappa didn’t like being interviewed, but he sure enjoyed having a chat.

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Rock Album Review: Black Country, New Road — An Ending and a Culmination

February 25, 2022
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Regardless of what’s to come, Ants From Up There represents a dizzying creative apex for Black Country, New Road.

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Rock Album Review: This Live Album Proves that The Beths Are the Best

February 24, 2022
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It has been a long time since I last felt this passionately about a new artist as I do about The Beths.

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Rock Concert Review: 2022’s Fear Inoculum Tour — Peak Tool

February 22, 2022
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Wading in the deep end of the Tool pool.

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Rock Album Review: David Bowie’s “Toy” — Perusing His Back Pages

February 15, 2022
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David Bowie’s Toy is a solid, enjoyable, and buoyant effort from an artist who never failed to stay interesting and vital well into his later years.

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CD Review: Dave Bainbridge’s “To The Far Away” — Prog Rock with Passion

February 12, 2022
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For prog fans who consider that the proof of the pudding is long, complex songs with virtuosic solos and exotic instrumentation, no fear: To The Far Away is multi-textured and musically exciting.

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