Rock

Rock Review: Here Come The Monks — Again

October 4, 2017
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The Monks were, and to some extent still are, the quintessential cult band.

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Music Review: Saxon and UFO — Still Howling After All These Years

October 2, 2017
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Saxon and UFO may not be ‘forever young,’ but their spirits have yet to grow old.

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Book Interview: Danny Goldberg on the Essence of Hippiness

September 21, 2017
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“To me, ’67 was a year that was different from what came after it.”

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Music Interview: Matthew Sweet — Power Pop Master

September 12, 2017
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Matthew Sweet and Tommy Keene return to town to brighten the Music Hall in Allston.

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Book Review: Punk Rock and Poetry — The Record Corrected

September 3, 2017
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There was an entire “New York School” that the punks were inspired by and a part of, whether they always wanted to be or not.

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Concert Review: Queen + Adam Lambert at Boston’s TD Garden

August 6, 2017
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To their credit, replacing Freddie Mercury is not something his surviving bandmates have ever tried to do.

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Rock Review: Dead & Co. — Still Kicking

June 20, 2017
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Wisely, guitarist John Mayer does not try to copy Jerry Garcia’s memorable licks, solos, tones, and styles.

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Music Feature: Corin Ashley — A Spectacular Return

May 25, 2017
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The Malden resident’s new album is particularly impressive under the circumstances — he suffered a major stroke in January 2016.

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Music Review: Singer/Songwriter Lucinda Williams — Americana Chanteuse

May 15, 2017
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The sense of place, the passage of time, the death-haunted imagery, and the coolly rhythmic verse gives Lucinda Williams’s songs their traction.

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Theater Review: Rock Critic Lester Bangs — A Welcome Rebel Yell

May 15, 2017
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Lester Bangs insisted that, at its best, rock was an act of pure rebellion, a liberation from the prison of respectability.

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