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Album Review: Joey Pizza Slice’s “Deli Days/Sontava Nights” — Depressive Lo-Fi Pop Done Right

May 22, 2014
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The tunes on Joey Pizza Slice’s new LP are personal enough to leave many listeners scratching their heads, asking “Is this guy for real?”

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Music Review: “Sugar Man” Rodriguez — The (Finally Famous) Mexican-American Singer-Songwriter from Detroit Comes to Boston

May 15, 2014
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Whether it was intended or not, Searching for Sugar Man did more than delve into the past of Sixto Rodriguez; it created his future.

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Concert Review: Television — Still in its Own Orbit After Thirty Years

May 14, 2014
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The band was still Television and often as not, still magnificent.

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CD Review: Swans — “To Be Kind” is Some Kind of a Masterpiece

May 10, 2014
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I love an album that ends with a bang – and The Swans’ To Be Kind ends with four.

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Concert Review: Better Than Ezra — Much Better Than Okay

April 26, 2014
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Better than Ezra may be more than a hardworking, nice-guy band permanently fated to be overshadowed by more significant artists.

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Concert Review: Boy George on Tour — A Weird Comeback Show

April 21, 2014
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If Boy George had carried on in this vein — working the best of the old in with the new, and keeping the soul roots upfront — the night would have been a surprise triumph.

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Music Homage: Loose Salute — Monkeemania is Alive and Well in Boston

April 15, 2014
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Loose Salute uses its genuine love for the too-little-heard Michael Nesmith and too-little-respected Monkees songbooks as a springboard for inventive arrangements that are true to the unique character of the music.

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Concert Review: Neil Finn — A Modest Master Songwriter

April 9, 2014
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As a solo artist, Neil Finn’s moved away from straightforward pop and toward a moodier sound, with lyrics asking bigger questions about life and mortality.

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Concert Review: Dumpstaphunk — A Superb New Orleans Funk Band That Wants to Change the World

April 5, 2014
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A sensitive folkie may tell you to get beyond your negativity; these guys tell you to “take all that bullshit and put it in the dumpsta.”

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Music Review: The Proud Evolution of Liars — from “They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top” to “Mess”

April 3, 2014
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The dazzling LP “Mess” proves that the band Liars has not half-heartedly made the switch to electronic music.

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