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The Big Hurt: Bieber Silences Youth, Kings of Leon Sell Out

The week's best press releases
I hadn't originally planned a press-release review for this week, but some PR blasts require immediate attention.
By DAVID THORPE | July 19, 2011

Coachella builds a sweaty buzz over three days in the California desert

Tough acts to follow
Coachella builds a sweaty buzz over three days in the California desert
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | April 19, 2011

Review: Cold War Kids | Mine Is Yours

Interscope (2011)
A lot of people are going to hate this album, but not everyone.
By RYAN REED | January 27, 2011

WFNX's top 101 songs in 2010

WFNX's most popular songs in 2010
WFNX listeners voted online at wfnx.com for six weeks to create this list of 2010's best songs.
By WFNX AND PHOENIX STAFF | January 04, 2011

Theodore Treehouse are Closest to the Sun

Burn, baby, burn
Bryan Bruchman and Dylan Martin and Ian Paige and everyone else who's been raving about Theodore Treehouse's live set over the past year were completely and totally right.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 09, 2010

Kings of Leon | Come Around Sundown

RCA (2010)
Kings of Leon seem to have hit their stride on their fifth studio album — but it's more of a stroll, and they're not heading anywhere particularly new.
By ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | October 12, 2010

The Big Hurt: Alternative rock songs

Who Charted?
I got up this morning filled with a furious hatred of alt-rock — I was tossing and turning half the night with Third Eye Blind's "Semicharmed Life" stuck in my head, a torment I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
By DAVID THORPE | October 05, 2010

The Walkmen refuse to break stride

Slow and steady
"My lord, where's the satisfaction? It's all uphill for me," croons Hamilton Leithauser in "Victory," a standout track from the Walkmen's new Lisbon (Fat Possum), and a perfect example of the sort of musty and swelling anthems the New York band — who come to Royale next Thursday — have mastered over the past decade.
By MICHAEL GRIMES | September 28, 2010

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The Big Hurt: Kings of Leon pooped

Plus ultimate 2010 jam revealed, Joe Perry wrecked, and Neil Young unplayable
It's been a pretty lively year for pop music, but haven't you felt that the ultimate jam of 2010 was still elusive? Well, it's finally revealed itself: if you listen to one track this year, make it SOULJA BOY 's "Anime."
By DAVID THORPE | August 03, 2010

Tom Jones | Praise and Blame

Lost Highway (2010)
Is it possible that Tom Jones, at age 70, is only now using everything he's got to his best advantage?
By JEFF TAMARKIN | July 28, 2010

Into the weird

Welcome to our many small worlds
No, it's not your imagination: things are getting smaller. Or at least, it seems that way in the funhouse-mirror world of modern music, where the semi-demise of the major-label factory has colluded with the anti-star obsession of the underground to produce a chasing of microgenres into mazes of musical self-selection.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | June 10, 2010

Friartown, redux

PC players foul out. Plus, helping Johnny Mac, a Supreme shift, and ‘Monbo Time’
Phillipe and Jorge have always had a problem with Providence College basketball’s advertising campaign, which refers to the area as “Friartown” in a delusional suggestion that the squad has support throughout the local community.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | April 14, 2010

Flanagan’s empire

Native son Bill Flanagan — novelist and MTV executive — discusses big books, musical longevity, Irish Catholicism, and Behind the Music .
Once a staple of the pages of The NewPaper (original incarnation of The Providence Phoenix ), Warwick-born Bill Flanagan went on to become a prominent rock journalist whose credits include U2: At the End of the World , the definitive portrait of one of the world's biggest bands.
By MICHAEL ATCHISON | February 05, 2010

WFNX's top 101 songs of the decade

The top 101 songs of the decade from WFNX 101.7 FM
Video of WFNX's top 101 songs of the decade
By WFNX AND PHOENIX STAFF | January 06, 2010

WFNX's top 101 songs in 2009

WFNX's most popular songs in 2009
Videos of the 101 most requested songs on WFNX in 2009
By WFNX AND PHOENIX STAFF | January 03, 2011

White Denim | Fits

Downtown (2009)
Even more than on last year’s auspicious digital-only Exposion , Austin’s White Denim stomp down the fine line between fertile versatility and iffy uncertainty. More often than not on Fits , this works out awesome.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | October 21, 2009

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