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Paradise Rock Club

Concert Review: Singer-Songwriter Lucinda Williams — On a Creative Jag

Lucinda Williams is one of the few songwriters who seem to realize the messiness of later life is just as loaded with song angles as the restlessness of youth.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Rock Tagged: Brett Milano, Ghosts of Highway 20, Paradise Rock Club

Fuse Concert Review: The Rezillos — A Welcome Visit from Scotland’s Version of the Ramones

Aging punk bands usually seem obliged to prove that their anger is still blazing. Since the Rezillos were never angry in the first place, they don’t have that problem.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Brett Milano, Eugene Reynolds, Fay Fife, Paradise Rock Club, The Rezillos, ZERO

Fuse Rock Review: The Current Gang of Four — Cut-rate, Yes, But Not That Bad

Ok, this isn’t the Gang of Four of yore — but There’s still something to be said for getting drunk on cheap wine.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andy Gill, Brett Milano, Gang of Four, Hugo Burnham, Paradise Rock Club

Concert Review: Rocker Nick Lowe Does Xmas His Way

More than holiday knock-offs, Nick Lowe’s Christmas songs were his strongest batch of originals in awhile.

By: Brett Milano Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Brett Milano, Christmas Songs, Los Straitjackets, Nick Lowe, Paradise Rock Club, Quality Street

Concert Review: Gary Numan at the Paradise — A Friendly Kind of Intensity

Yes, Gary Numan’s jumped a bandwagon, but the former new-wave hitmaker has done it with style.

By: Brett Milano Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, World Music Tagged: Brett Milano, Gary Numan, Paradise Rock Club

Rock Concert Review: Arctic Monkeys Live at Paradise Rock Club

If any more proof was needed that AM is a career highlight for Arctic Monkeys, the fact that the crowd Tuesday night met every new song with the same if not greater enthusiasm as the hits should provide it.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: AM, Arctic Monkeys, Paradise Rock Club

Coming Attractions in Jazz: June 2010

By J. R. Carroll June brings a cupful of world jazz. [Updated: See Mose Allison item below] Photo by Daniel Sheehan While the eyes of the sporting world may be on the stadiums of South Africa, there will be plenty of international flavor here in New England this month. Brazilian born but now Seattle-based, pianist/composer/arranger […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Jazz, Music, Visual Arts, World Books Tagged: Afrobeat, Al Di Meola, Allen Toussaint, Amazing Things Arts Center, Arturo Sandoval, Cesar Pedroso, Discover Jazz Festival, Don Byron, Duduka da Fonseca, Fela Kuti, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, João Gilberto, Jovino Santos Neto, Joyce Moreno, Julian Lage, Los Van Van, Manolo Mairena, Middle-East, Mose Allison, Narrows Center for the Arts, Natick Center for the Arts, Nilson Matta, Paradise Rock Club, Pupy y Los Que Son Son, Romero Lubambo, songo, Symphony Hall, Tony Allen, Trio da Paz, Trombone Shorty, Troy Andrews, Wilbur Theatre, World Sinfonia

Coming Attractions: Popular Music in May 2010

By Thomas Samph This month’s music is all about catchy, sing-along, pop music. There are girl groups, guy groups, throwbacks, and teenage YouTube celebrities coming to Boston in May. With summer right around the corner and the heat returning to Boston, these shows will help to celebrate the changing seasons. May 3, Gold Motel at […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Popular Music, Rock Tagged: Bo Burnham, Buzzcocks, Gold Motel, Great Scott, House of Blues, Kings of Leon, May, Music, Ok Go, Paradise Rock Club, pop, popular, Shout Out Louds, The Hives, The Strokes, Thomas Samph, Two Door Cinema Club

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