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Say yes to the Can’t Nots

A positive double negative
The Can't Nots released their debut EP, Applesauce , earlier this year and quickly racked up some positive press around these parts, and garnered a Best Breakthrough Act nomination in our 2011 Best Music Poll.
By CHRIS CONTI | October 04, 2011

Grand Hotel’s radiant and vibrant in color

Like a hurricane
Less than a year following their terrific self-titled full-length debut, Grand Hotel are back with in color , an album that sees that debut and raises the stakes considerably.
By SAM PFEIFLE | February 16, 2011

Photos: Modest Mouse at House of Blues

Modest Mouse and Morning Teleportation, live at House of Blues Boston, July 25, 2010
Modest Mouse and Morning Teleportation, live at House of Blues Boston, July 25, 2010
By LINDSEY PAYSON | July 26, 2010

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Greasing the skids

Berklee grad ditches career at a major record label for Boston and a beat-up, vegetable-oil-fueled van.
Things could have been different for Ben Maitland-Lewis.
By CHRIS FARAONE | March 01, 2010

Review: Theodore Treehouse at Slainte Wine Bar Mardi Gras

Music Seen
A few weeks back, Theodore Treehouse made a brief appearance in this spot, lending the band the quote that now appears on their MySpace page: "Even the bike punks couldn't resist bopping their heads."
By BRYAN BRUCHMAN | February 24, 2010

Prince Rama of Ayodhya + Theodore Treehouse

Music Seen
At SPACE Gallery, February 1
By BRIDGET M. BURNS | February 03, 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

Drear leaders

The Black Heart Procession stick to the low road
On the Black Heart Procession’s first visit to Boston, back in ’98, the duo hunched on chairs at the Middle East downstairs surrounded by equipment — keyboards, guitars, a musical saw, an array of percussion.
By MATT PARISH | October 27, 2009

Americana: land of progress

Califone’s peerless take on the future of roots-rock
You can listen to 30 seconds of any Califone song and get a fair idea of what the band is all about.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | October 14, 2009

Fly by night?

Fruit Bats aren't a Shins side project
For a decade, Eric Johnson's primary songwriting vehicle has been Fruit Bats, but the Portland-via-Chicago singer and multi-instrumentalist has always dipped in and out of other projects — Califone, Vetiver, Ugly Casanova among them.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG | September 08, 2009

Solid foundation

A promising debut from Big Tall Buildings
When Big Tall Buildings guitarist Jared Mann sent in a disc of six demos earlier this year, the raw potential behind songs "Natalie" and "Something with a Semicolon" had me dropping monthly emails on him with the subject header "WHERE'S THE ALBUM?"
By CHRIS CONTI | July 29, 2009

Hot Box experiment on themselves

Lab Rats
We’ll get to Stolzenberg’s band in a minute; right now I’m engrossed in her PhD work at Boston College.
By MATT PARISH | March 23, 2009

Fast-breaking music

You heard it here first
WFNX has always been a maverick radio station.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | December 03, 2008

We got everything

Frank Hopkins discovers the American Dream
Hopkins vented with Doomsday . Here he as produced something more measured, and, in the end, more long-lasting.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 19, 2008

Lenka | Lenka

Epic (2008)
A few months ago this pint-sized diva from Down Under posted a cutesy rendition of Modest Mouse’s “Gravity Rides Everything” to her MySpace page.
By MIKAEL WOOD | October 01, 2008

Road worriers

Obscene gas prices, stolen equipment, broken vans, no sleep -- so why do bands still go on tour?
Right around this time 10 years ago, our van died in the desert plains of Arizona on some godless stretch of I-8.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | September 04, 2008

The call of the wild

Wolf Parade get instinctual
It’s not easy being in a band whose two primary songwriters have quite different ideas about how to write an indie-rock song.
By BEN WESTHOFF | July 28, 2008

Funny business

As the AltCom Festival arrives at the Somerville Theatre, we look at the roots of the indie comedy boom.
“Ashlee Simpson’s new album sold so poorly,” snorted the headline on Yahoo! this past week, that “it was beaten by a comedy album.”
By MIKE MILIARD | May 08, 2008

Going on sale: April 4, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Kate Walsh, Adam Green, R.E.M., and more.
By GOING ON SALE | April 02, 2008

The Big Hurt: Fire sales

Plus, this week in tedious headlines
The world’s largest collection of recorded music has gone up for auction on eBay with a starting bid of $3 million.
By DAVID THORPE | March 04, 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

Live and kicking

Live reviews: 2007 in review
Yes, we suffer from an embarrassment of riches when it come to live music here in the Boston area.
By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 17, 2007

The year the music thrived

National pop: 2007 in review
Bad times for the big guys have generally been good news for the rest of us.
By MATT ASHARE | December 17, 2007

They’ve got issues

The bookworm’s gift that keeps on giving
As newspapers and magazines slim and shift their focus to online content and revenue streams, it has become sadly commonplace to overlook the unique capabilities of periodically printed matter.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | December 12, 2007

Gone like a Ghost

Gabrielle Raymond and Ian Riley release a haunting debut
The sources have it that Gabrielle Raymond, the singing and piano-playing half of Anna’s Ghost, has skipped town .
By SAM PFEIFLE | October 10, 2007

''Alternative Label of the Year''

Dangerbird Records' free nominated downloads
Dangerbird is offering rare remixes, demos, and Darker My Love’s homonymous debut in its entirety.
By MATT ASHARE | October 01, 2007