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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.

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.

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.”

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.

Rock Music Feature — Let’s Get Ready to Rock ‘N’ Roll Rumble

March 31, 2014
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call it, jokingly, the Boston Rock Love Fest, but it really is!” exclaims Rumble organizer Anngelle Wood.

Music Commentary: Checking Under the Hood of the Beatles’ “White Album”

March 21, 2014
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Deconstructing the “White Album” — How the Beatles could fight Like cats and work like dogs.

Concert Review: NEC Winds Play Mingus, Schuller, Babbitt (and More)

March 12, 2014
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The five compositions and one de facto suite played at the NEC Winds and Winds Ensemble performance spoke with six different voices and carried six different messages.

Rock Album Reviews: Two Recent Examples of High Grade Black Metal

March 12, 2014
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The two best black metal LPs of the past few months come from the Netherlands’ An Autumn for Crippled Children and Poland’s Behemoth.

Music Interview: Billy McCarthy of Augustines — Doing Strong Work

March 4, 2014
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“It seems now that quality spreads through reputation — the live show is where we really see bands pull away from the pack. It takes quality now to survive. Strong work.”

Concert Review: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks at the Paradise

February 26, 2014
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As a songwriter, Stephen Malkmus specializes in hooks that never quite resolve, melodies that jump in all directions, and lyrics that drop a few enticing references and then move on.

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