Rock

Fuse News: The Authentic Weirdness of Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys

April 25, 2013
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Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys specializes in modern psychedelic rock stripped of the jam-band baggage.

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Music Commentary: The 15th Annual New England Metalfest — Blunt Over Pretty

April 23, 2013
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I was curious to see how the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent events would filter into the fest. It began with my Facebook newsfeed displaying “Going to Worcester to blow off steam”-type messages.

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Music Review: Bob Dylan at UMass-Lowell, Tsongas Center

April 11, 2013
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The emotional peak of the entire night was Bob Dylan’s gently understated performance of “What Good Am I?” from 1989’s Oh Mercy.

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Coming Attractions in Local Rock: April 2013

April 2, 2013
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It is April in New England and for local music that means one thing, it’s time to RUMBLE!.

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Fuse Music Review: Mount Moriah — Hard to Classify But Superb at Café 939

March 27, 2013
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Is it country? Is it rock? When it’s good, is there really a difference?

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Film Review: “Oz the Great and Powerful” — CGI Overload on The Yellow Brick Road

March 7, 2013
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Employing every trick of digital capability to astound and amaze eventually becomes little more than hocus-pocus.

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Rock Review: Alt-J at Paradise — Not the New Radiohead

March 6, 2013
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The music has no soul. Alt-J isn’t “the new Radiohead.” They’re “the new Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.”

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Coming Attractions in Local Rock: March 2013

February 28, 2013
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It’s March in Boston and that means lots of tourists and college kids wearing green things and claiming to be Irish. Take them by the hand and lead them to one of the following musical offerings around the city this month.

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Book Review: Guilty Pleasures? — Rocker Peter Hook Takes Us Inside Joy Division

February 13, 2013
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Peter Hook’s memoir contains no earthshattering revelations, but it does offer a new way (or at least another way) of thinking about the four young men who made up Joy Division.

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Rock Music Review: The Vaccines Grow Up, But It’s Not Easy

February 6, 2013
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While The Vaccines Come of Age is a very good album, I can’t listen to it without thinking that maybe the band grew up a little too fast.

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