Henry Rollins

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Photos: All Tomorrow's Parties Festival at Asbury Park, NJ

Asbury Park, New Jersey | September 30-October 2, 2011
Bands perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival at Asbury Park, New Jersey on September 30-October 2, 2011.
By K. BONAMI | October 07, 2011

Dinosaur Jr. at Port City Music Hall, June 20

Music seen
Henry Rollins is the George Thorogood of punk rock. He has the appearance and credentials of someone bad to the bone, but in practice, he's pure establishment.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | June 22, 2011

Rollins to interrogate Dinosaurs

Inviting inquiry
It's always exciting when an iconic band play Portland, but Dinosaur Jr.'s Port City Music Hall show Monday night brings some additional curiosities.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | June 15, 2011

Get ready to ramble: 21 shows you need to see before September

One solid summer
Every summer, in addition to swarms of mosquitoes and fanny-packed tourists, New England hosts a massive invasion of live music.
By PHOENIX STAFF | June 17, 2011

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Henry Rollins is a icon worthy of the Brattle

Fifty sense
Clocking more than 100 shows per year for multiple decades now, Henry Rollins is a clean-living, world-traveling, rapid fireball of neurosis. At 50, the former Black Flag frontman has become less of a punk-rock pundit and more of a genuinely funny orator at large.
By JONATHAN DONALDSON | March 09, 2011

Review: Suck

Alice Cooper, Moby, and Iggy Pop walk into a bar ...
This blood-soaked camp-fest monopolizes on the media-dominating vampire craze, delivering a none-too-subtle jab to the music industry at the same time.
By ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | September 02, 2010

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Joyride

The Worcester Art Museum shows us ‘Who Shot Rock & Roll’
It is May 1966, in the Prelude Club in Harlem, an Atlantic Records release party.
By GREG COOK | March 24, 2010

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Don't call it a comeback

Six Finger Satellite never left. And never will
Six Finger Satellite founder and frontman Jeremiah "J." Ryan has news for anyone assuming that the upcoming Six Finger Satellite mini-tour is a harbinger for some big 6FS reunion, following the recent release of Half Control on Load Records, originally recorded in 2001 and remixed last year.
By CHRIS CONTI | August 05, 2009

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Going on sale: July 18, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
The Walkmen, Ray LaMontagne, Jonathan Richman, Gang Gang Dance, Paul Weller, and Henry Rollins.
By GOING ON SALE | July 15, 2008

Who brought the cool kid?

Ian MacKaye visits Tufts
“For me, punk is the new idea, always the new idea, forever the new idea. That’s why punk can never die. Because as long as there are people, there will be new ideas.”
By WILL SPITZ | April 15, 2008

Pants afire

Fakeries and the faking fakers who fake them
The ratio of falsehood to truth in the universe has not, of course, altered one jot since the world began.
By JAMES PARKER | March 13, 2008

Coverings

Jeffrey Lewis’s Crass, and Dirty Projectors’ Black Flag
If the title teen of Juno can dismiss Sonic Youth as “just noise,” what would a representative of a generation for whom quiet is the new loud make of the even harsher sonic barrages of first-wave punk?
By FRANKLIN BRUNO | March 10, 2008

Unauthorized!

Axl Rose, Albert Goldman, and the renegade art of rock biography
I think it may have been sometime in the 1970s that the term “unauthorized” became sort of cool.
By JAMES PARKER | May 26, 2009

Shots in the dark

Joe Carducci recalls the real price of punk
Naomi Petersen was not famous. Neither was she semi-famous, almost famous, post-famous, or notorious.
By JAMES PARKER | January 29, 2008

Sexual Halen

The little Dutch boys who could
Good news from the literary delivery room: the ignoble genre of rock biography has just given birth to its first genuine comedy.
By JAMES PARKER | October 23, 2007

Revving it up

The Wrong Reasons tough it out; plus, Machines with Magnets
The Wrong Reasons have mustered a gallant comeback, and this time it’s for all the right reasons.
By BOB GULLA | September 04, 2007

Punks find their inner Americana

The altered aesthetic of punks playing folk
Punk might have been swept along, cleaned up, dirtied again, then separated into a million different subgenres created to simplify things when really it only complicated everything.
By JON MEYER | August 31, 2007

Going on sale: July 13, 2007

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Michael Franti, Interpol, Aerosmith, Smashing Pumpkins, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | July 09, 2007

Planet of ass

Naked Happy Girls , My Bare Lady , Armed and Famous (NSFW)
Collapsed Catholic that I am, I’ve always had trouble with the concept of “erotic photography.”
By JAMES PARKER | January 17, 2007

The IFC Soundtrack

Indie rock for indie movies
The bridge between independent film and indie rock has been getting easier and easier to cross with the rise of a new generation of directors weaned on music videos and the multimedia underground.
By MATT ASHARE | December 04, 2006

Just the facts

Letters to the Boston editor: November 17, 2006
I’m writing about your article “ Pardon Us .”
By LETTERS | November 15, 2006

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 27

Lotta-palooza

This year’s model offers much more than music
This article originally appeared in the August 14, 1992 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By ROBERT MOSES | October 25, 2006

Punked out

The lost generation of American Hardcore
Fast and semi-coherent, like the music it documents, Paul Rachman’s American Hardcore , from the book by Steven Blush, uses an efficient equation: band members talking + flyer graphics + grainy clips from live shows. Watch the trailer for American Hardcore (QuickTime)
By A.S. HAMRAH | October 13, 2006

War and peace

X and the Rollins Band at Avalon, August 19, 2006
One of the nicer developments over the past several years has the straightforwardly quiet reappearance of one of the most productive, powerful, and unique bands to emerge from the punkinspired LA underground two and a half decades ago – X.
By MATT ASHARE | August 21, 2006