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The Big Pink | Future This

4AD (2012)
The Big Pink's name is forgettable and their sound is too generic to describe. Sneering electronic dance-rock heavy on synths and slowed-down '90s rave beats? They might as well be the Klaxons.
By DAN WEISS | January 10, 2012

Dynamite with a laser beam

Wax Tablet
Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy? Whatever you do, don't ask Sean Slaughter.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | November 23, 2011

Laurie Anderson is still really good

Mother lover
If I hesitate to offer a review of Laurie Anderson's Delusion (at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Center through October 2), it's because I fear the whole thing will be just one big spoiler.
By JON GARELICK | September 30, 2011

A postmodern dance lineage sings

Forest forays
Brown's newest work, Les Yeux et l'âme , is a suite of dances from Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Pygmalion , which Brown directed in Europe last year.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | August 23, 2011

The Big Hurt: Vince Neil acts his age

Plus The Situation singled, Drake unsurpassed, Pete Doherty denied, Lou Reed exonerated
By the time you read this, the Situation will have his first single out on iTunes. Yeah, that the Situation.
By DAVID THORPE | June 22, 2010

Review: Lady Gaga at the Wang

Lady Gaga, resplendent, striding onto the stage of the Wang Theatre, has just removed an intricate half-Egyptian/half-Wagnerian headdress from her person, freeing her enormous blonde hairdo from its confinement.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 02, 2009

Girl gone wild

Lady Gaga, live at the House of Blues, March 30, 2009
"My hair may be blond, but my heart is brunette," announced Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta — a/k/a Lady Gaga.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | April 02, 2009

Southern exposure

Beat Circus's Brian Carpenter returns to his roots
Multi-instrumentalist and Beat Circus patriarch Brian Carpenter has made his share of escapist music, but he's also written dozens of songs that confront real life.
By BARRY THOMPSON | January 07, 2009

Spirited moves

Paula Hunter’s off-kilter world
Paula Hunter gets under your skin.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | October 09, 2008

Under her skin

Laurel Casey is back in town
Who is Laurel Casey? If you figure her out, let her know. She’d love to learn that too.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | September 17, 2008

Who’s that girl (now)?

Madonna pulls some Hard Candy from her purse
I’d wager that Madonna is not much of a fun person.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | April 29, 2008

Home body

The Laurie Anderson world view
Laurie Anderson is the world’s pre-eminent performance artist — a musician, writer, and electronics and visual wizard.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | March 24, 2008

Show and tell

A whole new year of live music
After a brief late-December break from the usual boatload of good shows, the flood picks up right where it left off in early January.
By WILL SPITZ | January 04, 2008

Down down and away

Spectrum, Middle East Upstairs, August 28, 2007
Perhaps androids dream of more than just electric sheep.
By JIM SULLIVAN | October 02, 2007

Laurie Anderson

Big Science | Nonesuch
One of the most important albums of the ’80s has been re-released with two appealing extras.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | August 14, 2007

They love the ’80s

Booka Shade bring the synths
“We are musicians, we are not DJs,” says Arno Kammermeier, one half of the electronic music duo Booka Shade.
By DAVID DAY | July 30, 2007

Something for everybody

This summer, New England’s music calendar offers everything from Neil Sedaka to Lez Zeppelin
As that great philosopher Brian Wilson once observed, summer means fun.
By BRETT MILANO | June 11, 2007

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