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Music Interview: Disco Biscuits Redux — “Revolution in Motion”

March 10, 2024
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The Disco Biscuits improvisations are not driven by a guitar-rock root: they are more apt to dive into a piece of classical music and then ease into a propulsive dance-club beat that eventually swerves into Zappa-style brainy grime.

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Rock Album Review: Kim Gordon’s “The Collective” — Ensnared in Anxieties

March 8, 2024
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The album’s layers of thick and swampy sound make Kim Gordon’s anxious point.

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Poetry Review: According to Whom? — “Invisible Mending: The Best of C.K. Williams”

March 26, 2024
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I’m not against the concept of a Whitman’s Sampler of C.K. Williams poems —  but this problematic selection proves that it should not be a family affair.

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Album Review: Mr. Joe Jackson Presents: Max Champion in “What a Racket!”

November 26, 2023
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If you’re brave enough to dip your toes into a musical unknown, there are pleasures a-plenty to be had in this recording, in which Joe Jackson takes us on what purports to be a musicological excavation of the works of a long-forgotten figure of the English Music Hall era.

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Visual Arts Review: “Fabrics of a Nation — American Quilt Stories”

October 12, 2021
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The quilts serve as landmarks whose significance is evolving with shifting times and demographics. Where have we come from, they ask. Where are we going? The answers are no longer what they were.

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Film Review: “Under the Volcano” — Island Music

August 14, 2021
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Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in Montserrat gave birth to some great ’80s music, then succumbed to the elements.

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Rock CD Review: John Powhida International Airport — “This Phasor Sounds Divine”

December 4, 2021
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Like his idol, Todd Rundgren, John Powhida is a bit of a musical shape-shifter, evoking a broad range of styles but always with his unique and easily recognizable stamp.

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Concert Music Review: Andris Nelsons returns to the Boston Symphony

February 20, 2021
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One can only hope that Gail Samuel’s hiring means that the BSO’s welcome-but-fitful efforts at expanding its repertoire and engaging the community of late will become central to its post-pandemic mission.

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Film Review: “A Glitch in the Matrix” – Do Socially Maladjusted Men Dream of Black Trench Coats?

February 19, 2021
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A Glitch in the Matrix is nowhere near as unhinged as a Dinesh D’Souza “documentary,” but it’s mentally taxing to watch so many people describe the real world like it’s Minecraft.

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Film Review: “The Wobblies” — A Moving Story of a Largely Forgotten American Class Conflict

April 28, 2022
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After premiering at the New York Film Festival in 1979, this powerful documentary about one of the most dramatic periods in American labor history has been newly restored.

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