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J the S | The Last Days

Same Plate/Greater Good
J the S has been promising The Last Days since he went by Jake the Snake.
By CHRIS FARAONE | February 07, 2012

Run and gun
Made for a modest budget of $17 million — and feeling like it (who needs convincing explosions in an action movie?), Dante Lam's latest still gets the job done from a run-and-gun standpoint.
By BRETT MICHEL | January 17, 2012

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Class of 2012: Boston's 12 best new bands

A dozen fresh faces on Boston's music scene
If 2012 truly represents the End Times, then it's best to go out with a sonic bang.
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | January 05, 2012

New music for Boston's winter of discontent

Cold brewed
Here are 10 record-release parties from both newcomers and veterans of our city, dropping new music from now until March's thaw.
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | December 30, 2011

Getting rocked with Cocked N' Loaded

Plus, Mellow Bravo crashes the New Year’s Eve party
Two years ago, Cocked N' Loaded opened for the rabble-rousing Upper Crust at the now-defunct Harpers Ferry in Allston.
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | December 14, 2011

Photos: Hot Rod Circuit at The Middle East

The Middle East Downstairs | November 20, 2011
Hot Rod Circuit plays to a packed house at The Middle East Downstairs on November 20, 2011.
By MIKE JOHNSON | December 01, 2011

Photos: Peter Murphy + She Wants Revenge at the Middle East

Middle East Downstairs | November 17, 2011
Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge played The Middle East Downstairs on November 17, 2011.
By DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | November 23, 2011

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Young London pops Boston's rock bubble

Dance to the underground
It's a sentiment as old as the faded memories of the glory days at clubs like the Rat, Bunratty's, and the Channel: Boston is a rock-and-roll town.
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | October 19, 2011

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Photos: One Night Band at the Middle East

Hosted by Boston Band Crush | September 24, 2011
40 musicians from a cross section of area bands form eight new acts for one night only in One Night Band at the Middle East on September 24, 2011.
By KYLE CARRIER | September 29, 2011

Review: A Dolphin Tale

Not much of a splash
Winter the dolphin gamely plays herself in this loose re-telling of her fight for survival after a crab trap mangles her tail.
By ALICIA POTTER | September 20, 2011

Blasting away the blues with Bass Drum of Death

Sound the charge
Bass Drum of Death, the cranium-clobbering garage duo-turned-trio chosen to rep the Hospitality State this year, will join Japandroids tonight (Thursday) to metaphorically Eiffel Tower a sold-out Middle East.
By BARRY THOMPSON | September 14, 2011

What's wrong with the Palestinians' U.N. gambit

A dangerous charade
The Palestinian campaign to upgrade their diplomatic status at the United Nations is a train wreck in the making.
By EDITORIAL | September 14, 2011

A decade of awful air travel

Idiot Box
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of overzealous TSA frisking.
By MATT BORS | September 14, 2011

Review: Circumstance

Schoolgirls in hijabs
Circumstance begins like an early Kiarostami film, but with schoolgirls in hijabs instead of schoolboys in sweaters.
By ANN LEWINSON | September 06, 2011

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In his new graphic novel, Craig Thompson wins an argument with God

Illuminated manuscript
This book is a gorgeous object; to make it, Thompson apparently covered himself in honey and rolled around in a thousand years of Arabic calligraphy and Islamic art, and the result is breathtaking — the amount of ink expended on one resplendent panel after another, not to mention the virtuoso draftsmanship, speaks of hundreds of hours of hard work.
By S.I. ROSENBAUM | August 31, 2011

Photos: One Night in Boston 2011

Fifteen photographers. Eight hours.
STUFF Magazine presents photos taken in Boston's streets over eight hours on the night of July 15, 2011; here are a few of our favorites.
By STUFF BOSTON | August 12, 2011

Review: The Devil's Double

Like Scarface , but with a difference
Watching this litany of murder and debauchery in the gilded splendor of Saddam's Baghdad, in which Dominic Cooper plays both Saddam's psycho son Uday and the Iraqi good guy Latif, who was forced to serve as his double, I thought: this is like Scarface, but with a difference.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 02, 2011

Company One takes on Jason Grote's whirling 1001

American Nights
Grote uses the same framing device as the original One Thousand and One Nights , which begins with Shahriyar (Nael Nacer) discovering his wife's infidelity and deciding that the only way to prevent his future wives from cheating is to marry virgins, deflower them, and execute them the next morning.
By MADDY MYERS | July 26, 2011

Out: On a hot summer night at the Middle East, Dream Hits surf a garage-pop lullaby

Wake up the buzz meter
Following a lively opening set of Americana-infused indie rock from South Shore five-piece War Presidents, Dream Hits breezed through their show with the infectiously simple "Bummer" and the sweet melodrama of "Meat," a song that sounded so warm and familiar that even the most intoxicated coeds were bouncing and swaying in all the right places.
By PATRICK MCDERMOTT | July 28, 2011

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