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Titus Andronicus | The Monitor

XL (2010)
As if to allay any fears of a starchy Civil War concept album, Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles spends the first minute of The Monitor shouting out a series of cultural artifacts that postdate that conflict by, oh, about a hundred years: the Garden State Parkway, the Newark Bears, even the Fung Wah bus.
By MIKAEL WOOD | March 16, 2010

Vegas and Jungleland

Paul Shaffer and the Big Man tell all
Paul Shaffer is a happenin’ cat. Pick an It Moment from pop culture over the past 30 years and Shaffer was there. He was an original band member on Saturday Night Live . He played hapless promo guy Artie Fufkin in This Is Spinal Tap . Disco? He co-wrote “It’s Raining Men.” And he helped David Letterman break ground as his glittery, ironic bandleader/sidekick.
By JOYCE MILLMAN | November 24, 2009

Britt pop

The spare magic of Spoon
It’s like the Anti–Wall of Sound.
By WILL SPITZ | October 09, 2007

Do you believe in Magic?

Bruce Springsteen returns to the E Street Band
On Magic (Columbia), Bruce Springsteen’s first album with the E Street Band in five years, not everything is what it seems.
By JEFF TAMARKIN | October 01, 2007

Magic numbers

The mysterious allure of 27
“I like that Stone Roses song,” one of them noted. “You know the one I mean — ‘I Wanna Be a Door.’ ”
By BRETT MILANO | August 14, 2007

Matter of characters

In the age of the sound bite, Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster are reviving the lost art of long-form radio comedy
Two men are on the phone.
By MIKE MILIARD | April 04, 2007

Springsteen comes of age

A dangerous romantic begins to reckon the risks of rebelling
This article originally appeared in the June 6, 1978 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By KIT RACHLIS | November 14, 2006

Hoary days

One opinion about the making of Bruce Springsteen
DOWN THUNDER ROAD: THE MAKING OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, by Marc Eliot with the participation of Mike Appel. Simon & Schuster, 382 pages, $23.
By JOHN J. KELLY | May 23, 2006

Man's work

An epic show from a kinder, gentler Bruce Springsteen
“It's hard to figure out what it actually takes to be a man," Springsteen said during a rare post-sound-check interview. In recent years, though, he’s had the financial security and the time on his hands to figure it out.
By GARY SUSMAN | May 23, 2006

He's the Boss

Why Bruce Springsteen makes great rock and roll
If good rock and roll is about escape, great rock and roll is about taking ordinary life and making something extraordinary out of it.
By | May 23, 2006

Bruce Springsteen’s rock dream: Little Big Man as Hot Rod hero

Columbia has been so successful that, no matter what Born To Run sounds like, Bruce Springsteen is in all probability going to be rock’s next superstar. In fact, if one can judge from the crazed crowds outside New York’s Bottom Line, he already is.
By PETER HERBST | May 22, 2006