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Arborea sail across a fossil sea

Hearing Red
When critics say a band have a timelessness about them, people generally mean the band's music is sort of universally appealing, outside of trends or genres.
By SAM PFEIFLE | April 25, 2011

Review: Speech Debelle | Speech Therapy

Big Dada (2009)
It's unfortunate that there's a glass ceiling in the US market for British hip-hop — but for the lovely, clipped London accent that gives truth to Speech Debelle's delivery, this release would be huge stateside.
By GUSTAVO TURNER | August 03, 2009

A cut above

The Books, live at the ICA, April 10, 2009
From out of blearily luminous pools of spiraling orange fractals, the disembodied head of a stately-looking man emerged, coaxing us to attention with little more than his calming gaze and an invitation to “a new beginning.”
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | April 14, 2009

The end of everything

The more the Cambiata change, the more they improve
The Cambiata are never satisfied.
By SAM PFEIFLE | January 15, 2009

Hearts of gold

Pete Kilpatrick Band make like Obama and hope
Pete Kilpatrick’s burgeoning career is a microcosm of the near-chaos that is the current state of the music industry.
By SAM PFEIFLE | October 02, 2008

Minimal man

José González at the Paradise Rock Club, March 13, 2008
The notes José González coaxes out of his nylon-stringed guitar are bright and dry.
By SHARON STEEL | March 21, 2008

Mad lulling

Mia Doi Todd's dark folk
Attendees of this week’s José González show on March 13 at the Paradise will be treated to an opening set from LA’s Mia Doi Todd.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 04, 2008

Less is best

The spare science of José González
González possesses the will power and the patience to dig into each of his songs until he has exhumed its bleeding heart.
By SHARON STEEL | March 04, 2008

Indie invasion

Blogs like Swedesplease.net
Green living and government-subsidized health care and education are breeding smart indie-pop acts by the dozen.
By GEORGIANA COHEN | February 25, 2008

Going on sale: January 11, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Mountain Goats, Joe Jackson, Stephen Malkmus, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | January 08, 2008

Guest lists 2007

Phoenix and WFNX staffers submit their ten best albums of the year
Phoenix and WFNX staffers submit their ten best albums of the year
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 21, 2007

The long haul

Bullyclub’s application for Tenure
Plenty of musicians have been on the Portland music scene longer than Doug Cowan and Bullyclub.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 20, 2007

Acoustic alchemy

James Blackshaw brings his talents to town
September has seen an embarrassment of acoustic-guitar riches here in Boston, with performances by three of the world’s finest.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | September 24, 2007

Going on sale: July 6, 2007

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
José González, Editors, Amiina, and more
By GOING ON SALE | July 03, 2007

Savath and Savalas

Golden Pollen | Anti-
This is a gloriously glassy album brimming with Hispanic sounds and surfer-boy harmonies.
By DAVID DAY | July 02, 2007

Recharged

Comic Book Super Heroes are ready to Destroy
“We’re coming back onto the scene after a long period of uncertainty, with bandmates coming and going,” writes the Comic Book Super Heroes.
By BOB GULLA | April 18, 2007

One night in Belgium

Micah Blue Smaldone shows off his European flair
Recently, a story’s been going around the baseball community about Matt White, a journeyman reliever with barely a cup of coffee on the big-league circuit.
By SAM PFEIFLE | March 16, 2007

Stockholm calling

Peter Bjorn and John, El Perro del Mar, and Lo-Fi Fink lead the new Swedish invasion
In “Young Folks,” the hipster hit by the Stockholm-based indie-pop trio Peter Bjorn and John, Peter Morén boasts that “we don’t care about the young folks.”
By MIKAEL WOOD | March 03, 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

Holiday, it would be so nice!

Seasonal cheer at the MFA and the SMFA, Helen Molesworth at the Carpenter Center, Andrea Modica at BU
The Museum of Fine Arts offers a full-out festive immersion approach to the impending holidays this year — a line of attack that, in keeping with the contemporary spirit of art, embraces performing arts, multimedia, and site-specific.
By RANDI HOPKINS | November 28, 2006

Blade runners

Our interviewer goes around, over, through, and under the Knife
You’ve perhaps heard the hipsterrific Swedish electro duo the Knife. But if they have their way, they’ll never hear you. Pointed pop: The bemused machinations of the Knife
By MIKE MCKAY | November 14, 2006

British Advertising Films of 2005

More like short films
American advertising agencies don’t trust the intelligence of their audiences. Or so you’ll conclude when you see how the Brits do TV commercials.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | October 11, 2006

Shapeshifting

Jose Gonzalez and Zero 7 at Avalon, September 12, 2006
It’s a delicious surprise to find that Jose can get beyond the bedroom sound of Veneer , and by “get beyond,” I mean this guy can swing with a reckless, nerdy abandon that does nothing to rob him of his Nick Drake comparisons. Slideshow: Zero 7 at Avalon, September 12, 2006
By SHARON STEEL | September 18, 2006