Blake Maddux
None of these pedigrees guaranteed that The Old Ceremony’s music would live up to the promise. After all, cool by association does not equal great on one’s own.
Read MoreBryan McPherson has come a long way from writing songs in the room next to mine in North Cambridge and then busking at Porter and Harvard Squares.
Read More“Yes, America might have been a nation of Christians, but that was different from being formally a Christian nation.”
Read More1965 was the year in which the leading artists in American and British popular music pushed themselves beyond making albums that mixed covers with subpar originals.
Read MoreThe most important takeaway from American Justice 2014 is the potential danger, from Epps’s perspective, of the growing influence of Justice Alito.
Read More“I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox’s checkered history in terms of race.”
Read More“If you’re dead you won’t have a movement, and guns kept people alive. In particular, kept people who made the movement alive.”
Read MoreNeuroplasticity is a bit more fleshed-out than its predecessor, but the album retains ample amounts of the slow to mid-tempo spookiness that Al Spx calls “doom soul.”
Read MoreSo how do four young guys successfully build upon two masterworks while simultaneously facing possible enervation due to record label woes and botched stateside promotion?
Read MoreA People’s History of the New Boston takes the “grassroots” view and tries to give overdue credit to the role that community activists and neighborhood residents played in building the “New Boston.”
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