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The Big Hurt: The torments of Phil, plus Biebs's 'stache, Simpson's Snoop poop

Music news in brief
A thrilling roller-coaster of PHIL COLLINS drama this week. First, a murmur washed over the media as Collins seemed to announce his retirement in an FHM interview.
By DAVID THORPE | March 18, 2011

Dan Capaldi steps out from behind the kit

On the Level
In addition to plenty of other projects, Dan Capaldi has played drums now for two of Portland's most important bands of the last five years: the brightly burning Cambiata and the still-on-the-rise Holy Boys Danger Club.
By SAM PFEIFLE | January 26, 2011

The Big Hurt: True or false?

A music 'News in Brief' quiz
Rather than the usual "News in Brief," maybe I'll make things a little more interesting this week.
By DAVID THORPE | October 19, 2010

Past perfection

The radiant, repressed pop of Neon Indian
Everybody please stop calling Alan Palomo "nostalgic." When I check in with him last Friday, the dude seems far more interested in whatever is on the horizon than whatever's in the past.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 05, 2010

Mostly Other People Do the Killing | Forty Fort

Hot Cup (2009)
On their fourth CD, the celebrated young jazz quartet with the indie-rock name continue their audacious updating of the genre's old-school avant-garde.
By JON GARELICK | January 21, 2010

Anything and everything

StreightAngular just want to know what's now
People never like to label themselves. Or, at least they shouldn't.
By BARRY THOMPSON | October 10, 2009

Weird and wired

A small band of electronic music acts take on a rock ’n’ roll city
It is, of course, difficult to attach a single sound to a city. And Providence is no exception.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | June 03, 2009

Video vérité

'Acting Out' at the ICA, plus Eileen Quinlan
Javier Téllez's 2007 black-and-white film "Letter on the Blind, For the Use of Those Who See" starts with a catchy premise: he gathered six blind New Yorkers at an empty public pool in Brooklyn to act out the fable of the blind men and the elephant.
By GREG COOK | April 01, 2009

Crossword: ''Go digital''

Turning over a new page
Turning over a new page
By MATT JONES | April 01, 2009

From your biggest fan

An open letter to Canibus (sans Dido interludes)
I e-mailed but you're still not calling. (I left my cell, my office, and my home number at the bottom.) You must not have got 'em; there must have been a problem with your servers or something.
By CHRIS FARAONE | March 19, 2009

Smoke and mirrors (and elephants) at the ICA

'Momentum 13: Eileen Quinlan' and 'Acting Out: Social Experiments in video' coming to the ICA
Not into wheatpasting and framed posters? The ICA is about to serve up two shows by artists who promise not to pop up on street walls all over the city.
By EVAN J. GARZA | March 03, 2009

Phosphorescent | To Willie

Dead Oceans (2009)
No stranger to ragged, defeatist country/folk, Matthew Houck and friends sound right at home on To Willie.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | February 03, 2009

2008 Listravaganza Part 2

The lighter side of music in 2008
Everything you wanted to know about the year in music, in tidy lists of 10.
By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 05, 2009

Beauty and the East

Boston-area art spaces look to Asia this winter
Gallery-goers with an affinity for art from Asia will have plenty of reason for excitement with a handful of enticing shows this winter.
By EVAN J. GARZA | December 29, 2008

Drink up!

Santaland gets to the dark heart of Christmas
Santaland gets to the dark heart of Christmas
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 10, 2008

Feel the music

We may be the last generation to give tangible tunes for Christmas
I personally find it comforting that the current number-one single in the country has a chorus that goes "I'll gas up the jet for you tonight, and baby we can go wherever you like."
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 11, 2008

Adoring public

CCTV 20TH Anniversary at the Middle East Upstairs, October 18, 2008
If the goal was to bring to life for a night the strange beast that is cable access, they nailed it.
By MEGAN V. BELL | October 24, 2008

Sax-crazed

No decade blew harder than the '80s
Sax solos: a symbol of musical excess from a bygone era when “ProTools” was something a plumber brought to the job.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | August 12, 2008

Ogre Ferreus

The proto-man comes home on Plague of the Planet
This is the album Ogre have been meaning to make all along.
By SAM PFEIFLE | March 19, 2008

Chairmen of the boards

Our critics pick the 14 producers with the fattest, meanest beats
Not unlike Swedish, Tagalog, and Esperanto, music is a language, with its own conjugations and (lewdly) dangling participles.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | October 18, 2007

From prog to pop

Genesis, TD Banknorth Garden, September 11, 2007
Much of the set came from the post-Gabriel, pre- Touch era, when Genesis mastered their orchestral soundscapes.
By BRETT MILANO | September 18, 2007

Police profile

They never were your average punks
One of these days, in a British crime movie, there will appear a gangland boss with a fetish for the Police.
By JAMES PARKER | July 27, 2007

Get cirrus

Mike Clouds teams up to go solo on Blown Speaker Project
If you know Mike Clouds’s work, it’s likely because of his team-up with A-Frame.
By SAM PFEIFLE | July 18, 2007

Shape up

Fernand Léger at the Fogg, ‘Encounters’ at the BCA, ‘War’ at the MFA and Pierre Menard Gallery
“Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Forms” is a powerful contribution to our understanding of Léger’s role in the development of abstract art in the early 20th century.
By RANDI HOPKINS | April 03, 2007

Beatshopping

Handcancel and the 48 Beats of Power; more Miami
In the vast land of Dorchester, studios and beatmakers lurk around every corner. And this Sunday at ZuZu’s in Cambridge, one of their own celebrates a new release by . . . DJing with cassette tapes. Handcancel, "March Playlist" (mp3)
By DAVID DAY | March 20, 2007

Under the Covers battle

Albums of the year
Rock-and-roll beefs are never quite as delicious as the heat-packing rivalries of their hip-hop brethren. Watch: Battle of the Album Covers
By CAMILLE DODERO | October 19, 2006

Size matters

But can you do anything about it?
Every time I watch ESPN or Spike TV, I see these commercials for Enzyte “natural male enhancement.” Does that shit actually work?
By DAN SAVAGE | February 23, 2006