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Nikki Sixx faces his doppelgangers

Still shouting
Nikki Sixx remains a live wire when onstage with LA dirtbags Mötley Crüe.
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | July 18, 2011

New York Dolls | Dancing Backwards in High Heels

429 (2011)
The new New York Dolls have now been around longer - and released more albums (three) - than the old New York Dolls, and they're commemorating that new longevity by letting go of any compulsion they may have still harbored to honor their designation as "punk-rock progenitors."
By JEFF TAMARKIN | March 17, 2011

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Unhappy birthday

The lines sag heavy and deep for Moz
It seems like only yesterday that I was huddled in the corner of my room, staring listlessly out the window through tear-smeared glasses, absently singing along to “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” and wondering when my life would finally show my heart a modicum of mercy. . . . Oh wait. That was yesterday.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | May 18, 2010

Packets of Sugar

Bebe Buell returns to town throwing ‘Air Kisses’
It’s easy to paint Bebe Buell as some talentless pretty face who slept her way to whatever modicum of stardom she has right now.
By SAM PFEIFLE | April 28, 2010

Various Artists | Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010

Matador (2010)
The notion that regional musical flavors exist independently in American cities is quickly becoming an archaic truism, seeing as how the world really is a stage these days, at least in the digital sense.
By ZETH LUNDY | January 06, 2010

New York Dolls | 'Cause I Sez So

Atco (2009)
The big news regarding the New York Dolls’ second album since their reactivation five years ago is the return of Todd Rundgren as producer.
By JEFF TAMARKIN | April 28, 2009

That's how people grow up

Morrissey, live at House of Blues, March 29, 2009
Morrissey specializes in decadent enlargements of contrary emotions: he's got despair on lock, he's an excellent sculptor of ennui.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 31, 2009

Remembering a Rhode Island icon

Jefferson Thomas was in the vanguard of the Providence underground
There was never anyone remotely like Jeff Thomas.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | July 30, 2008

Life after The Sopranos

Christuhfuh rocks
If you’re a Sopranos fan, you remember the demise of Christopher Moltisanti in an overturned SUV.
By JON GARELICK | April 09, 2008

Unauthorized!

Axl Rose, Albert Goldman, and the renegade art of rock biography
I think it may have been sometime in the 1970s that the term “unauthorized” became sort of cool.
By JAMES PARKER | May 26, 2009

Get Ready, Here Come... The '70s

Shout Factory!
Okay, so they missed a few things, but Get Ready manages to be a whole lot of fun by ignoring the music that mattered.
By JEFF TAMARKIN | September 12, 2007

Punks find their inner Americana

The altered aesthetic of punks playing folk
Punk might have been swept along, cleaned up, dirtied again, then separated into a million different subgenres created to simplify things when really it only complicated everything.
By JON MEYER | August 31, 2007

Portland scene report: August 24, 2007

Sibilance starts now
Harrington, who also publishes the local uber-zine Kapital Ink, is nothing if not elbow-deep in rock.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | August 22, 2007

Dead white females

From Fall Out Boy to One Night in Paris , modern pop culture is what it is today thanks to 10 long-expired ladies
Can you remember the last time you curled up under the covers with Marcel Proust’s I n Search of Lost Time ?
By SHARON STEEL | August 08, 2007

Post-punk pantheon

Daydream Nation tops our list of 10 landmark albums that made indie rock
They were, by definition, misfits.
By PHOENIX STAFF | July 16, 2007

Meatless magic

Morrissey returns, Bank of America Pavillion, July 7, 2007
“No Meat,” read the signs posted at the entrance of Bank of America Pavilion.
By MATT ASHARE | July 09, 2007

Junior miss

Malin’s third solo CD goes over the top
Former glam-rocker Jesse Malin’s 2003 solo debut not only offered proof that he could make it as a singer-songwriter — it was the best thing he’d put out.
By IAN SANDS | July 09, 2007

Magic shows

The Charms become Wicked Cool
It’s a recent Sunday near midnight, and Charms leaders Ellie Vee and Joe Wizda have their ears to the radio. The Charms, "So Romantic" (mp3)
By BRETT MILANO | February 27, 2007

The wild bunch

Another triumph for the New York Dolls
One of the lies I tell myself is that some day I’ll care about the Rolling Stones as much as I care about the New York Dolls.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | October 30, 2006

Anarchy in Medford

History of punk rock
Sitting in on Tufts lecturer Michael T. Fournier’s course “History of Punk Rock,” offered via the university’s Experimental College, one can’t help but think of Johnny Rotten’s famous final words: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
By MIKE MILIARD | October 18, 2006

Men of mettle

Another smackdown from Motörhead
Like three trolls in a speedboat, the men of Motörhead have hitched their age-old warty grievance against humanity to a roaring musical accelerant, and yet again they are writing heavy-metal history.
By JAMES PARKER | October 03, 2006