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48 Hour Music Festival at SPACE Gallery, February 19

Music seen
The third annual 48 Hour Music Festival led off with Charlemagne, a lurching prog-pop unit that offered one of the most indie-friendly sets of the night, sounding a bit like Built to Spill or Dinosaur Jr., but with odd time arrangements.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 23, 2011

Kylesa tell a simpler story

Shaking off the crust
Savannah crust-metal collective Kylesa have opted to keep the mythic in the music alone, searing ears with a widescreen two-drummer assault that's both pummeling and haunting.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | October 19, 2010

Photos: Built To Spill at the Paradise Rock Club

Built To Spill, live at the Paradise Rock Club | September 30, 2010
Built To Spill perform live at the Paradise Rock Club on September 30, 2010.
By ERIC BAUMANN | October 04, 2010

Rocktober! Lolita Black is back in action! And more!!

Off the Couch
Last call for BIG RUSH and CHRIS DA GREAT headlining a rap bill at AS220 on THURSDAY (the 30th), followed by the highly-anticipated return of LOLITA BLACK (welcome new vocalist Scarlett Delgado) with Sweden’s SUMA , NYC’s UNEARTHLY TRANCE , and SIN OF ANGELS on FRIDAY (the 1st ).
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | September 29, 2010

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Fall Music Preview: Sounds abound

It's the busiest fall ever !
As the autumnal equinox fast approaches, there’s plenty of action statewide and no genre left behind from Downcity to down south to the highly-anticipated return of a local live landmark — the Met Café, now located in the Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket.
By CHRIS CONTI | September 16, 2010

Welcome to Chateau Rex

A new day rising for Coma Coma
75orLess Records strikes again with another stoner-rock scorcher in Chateau Rex , courtesy of Coma Coma.
By CHRIS CONTI | May 26, 2010

Breakfast of champions

Slipping into Surprise Me Mr. Davis
The Slip have been a fixture on the jam band scene for 15 years. Over the past six years, the Slip’s core members — bassist Marc Friedman, guitarist Brad Barr, and his brother Andrew behind the kit — along with pianist Marco Benevento and singer/songwriter Nathan Moore occasionally whip up a little something on the side they like to call Surprise Me Mr. Davis.
By CHRIS CONTI | April 08, 2010

Quasi | American Gong

Kill Rock Stars (2010)
I don't know what it is about the top left corner of our country that moves its indie-rockers to cuten up their miseries into adorable little creatures (see: Death Cab, Built To Spill, Elliott Smith, and my favorite specimen, Quasi), but it's a trick that just keeps working.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | February 23, 2010

Off the record?

Ten albums to get . . . while we still have albums
Pity the album. After a half-century of embarrassingly public body issues, our essential rock unit has not entered the new millennium looking very healthy. EPs are way more in vogue, MP3s have intangibility on their side, and 12-inches just sound impressive.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | September 14, 2009

Pawtucket calling

Off the Couch
The long weekend starts THURSDAY (the 3rd) with a 7 pm set from local singer/songwriter GREG LATO at Hot Topic in Providence Place Mall. He's touring the region behind his recent full-length debut Monday Morning Breakdown .
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | September 02, 2009

Best Music Poll 2009: Anything goes

The underground: saved, salvaged, or savaged?
The underground: saved, salvaged, or savaged?
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | July 30, 2009

The Most Serene Republic | . . . And the Ever Expanding Universe

Arts and Crafts (2009)
The Most Serene Republic were the first group signed to Arts and Crafts that had no relationship to Broken Social Scene.
By JAKE COHEN | July 01, 2009

Rude awakening

The rousing sounds of Coma Coma
Coma Coma singer/bassist Eric Sampson brushes off the notion that Rhode Island's music community currently lacks quality acts.
By CHRIS CONTI | April 22, 2009

Cymbals Eat Guitars | Why There Are Mountains

Self-released (2009)
There's good news and bad news about New York quartet Cymbals Eat Guitars and their self-released debut.
By RYAN STEWART | April 06, 2009

Winter to remember

2009 enters with a roar
Sometimes January in this town can be a bit slow. It's cold. There's a holiday hangover. Whatever.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 31, 2008

Four on the floor

Albums you may have missed as fall fell
It’s been a fine fall already: sunny, crisp weekends for apple picking; big-time albums from Ray LaMontagne, Pete Kilpatrick, and Twisted Roots; a deep Red Sox run in the playoffs.
By SAM PFEIFLE | October 22, 2008

Stopped, dropped, and rolled

Letters to the Boston editor, October 17, 2008
I’d like to thank and commend Adam Reilly for writing about the journalists arrested covering the Republican convention in St. Paul.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | October 16, 2008

Record reviewers

Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr, and Built to Spill at the Orpheum, September 27, 2008
The problem with these “play your most revered album in full” shows that everyone from Public Enemy to Liz Phair is doing lately is that the correct answer is not always a no-brainer.
By RYAN STEWART | October 01, 2008

Photos: Built To Spill at the Orpheum

Built to Spill at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA, September 27, 2008
Built to Spill at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA, September 27, 2008
By KELLY DAVIDSON | October 01, 2008

Pretty & Nice: A Tour Diary

On the road from Oregon to Boston with New England's newest Sub Pop signees
On the road from Oregon to Boston with New England's newest Sub Pop signees
By JEREMY MENDICINO | September 04, 2008

Being the boss

Another glimpse of the Phantom Buffalo
Talk about long-awaited: The new Phantom Buffalo record was recorded at Thundering Sky, down in South Berwick, over four days in August, 2005. That’s right, 2005 .
By SAM PFEIFLE | July 21, 2008

Going on sale: June 20, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Built To Spill, The Dandy Warhols, The Duke Spirit, Black Kids and more.
By GOING ON SALE | June 17, 2008

Striving for magic

Scarce are taking it slow; plus, Killing Pablo
Do you remember Scarce?
By BOB GULLA | June 04, 2008

A Peapod grows in Portland

A young label sports sonic wisdom
Harrity’s albums sound like the work of an invisible hand, and it’s apparent that he likes it that way.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | May 07, 2008

Other peas in the pod

In addition to the Brown Bird and Dead End Armory albums here are two recent Peapod releases
In addition to the Brown Bird and Dead End Armory albums here are two recent Peapod releases
By SAM PFEIFLE | May 07, 2008

Honey Clouds

Music seen at Empire Dine and Dance, January 25, 2008
At last! Honey Clouds, an indie-rock four-piece full of familiar faces, emerged from their year-long gestation to play their first show.
By IAN PAIGE | January 30, 2008

The year the music thrived

National pop: 2007 in review
Bad times for the big guys have generally been good news for the rest of us.
By MATT ASHARE | December 17, 2007

Band of Horses

Cease to Begin | Sub Pop
Much has changed for Band of Horses and their mercurial frontguy, singer/guitarist Ben Bridwell, since they quietly released their debut album.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG | October 30, 2007

Guest lists

What 30 of the Phoenix 's music critics liked this year
What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 02, 2007