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Out: Frank Black hits up Allston

Pixie gauged
Seconds into an overdue piss break, I heard a thing of beauty and relative singularity coming from the next room over.
By BARRY THOMPSON | October 26, 2011

Interview: Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago on, well, ummm . . .

Awkward Talks
What is there left to say about the Pixies? As it turns out, not so much, and original guitarist Joey Santiago seems to agree.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | October 19, 2011

first-ever best music poll awards party at brighton music hall

Out: Good times a’Bruin

A celebratory night of Boston rock (and hockey) at the Best Music Poll awards
It was the first time the Boston Phoenix hosted an awards party for its 23-year-old Best Music Poll, but what erupted June 15 at Brighton Music Hall was a drunken shitshow that honored decades of Boston rock and roll, and was capped off by the Bruins' first Stanley Cup championship since 1972.
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | June 22, 2011

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Mouth of Flowers in Full Effect

Petal to the metal
Devotees of mid-'90s indie/post-hardcore/ CMJ -approved alt-rock have been feeling the love the past few years.
By CHRIS CONTI | February 15, 2011

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Huak + Metal Feathers at Bayside Bowl, September 24

Music seen
The DJ at Bayside Bowl can't stop playing the Pixies' Bossanova. Not that anyone's complaining.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | September 29, 2010

A Steve Albini vitriol sampler

Shellackings
The Steve Albini of today is a relatively jovial figure: hard-working, straight-talking, practical — but with the contented air of one who's been able to find his own way in a tricky field.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | August 31, 2010

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The Big Hurt: Lightfoot lives!

Plus Weezy tweets and Mayer backpedals
Last week, the world was gripped in the terror of a GORDON LIGHTFOOT death scare when a realistic-looking Twitter obit was picked up by several Canadian papers.
By DAVID THORPE | March 02, 2010

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Sick sense

There's a madness to Bunnies' method
We've been told there's no such thing as a new idea, but that may well be bullshit. The new ideas are out there, they just need bands like Bunnies to root them out.
By BARRY THOMPSON | January 12, 2010

2009: The year in local pop

The '09 mixtape
When I think back on 2009, I feel the same pleasant discomfort you get at the end of a John Hughes movie, when suddenly all the jocks and dorks and punks are good friends. This year, hardcore denizens of time-worn niches came out of hiding and acted all presentable and all sorts of scenes and sounds went behind the bleachers for some unlikely scores.
By MATT PARISH | December 28, 2009

Photos: Pixies at the Wang Theatre

The Pixies, live at the Wang Theatre, November 27, 2009
Photos from the Pixies' Boston stop on their tour to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the release of Doolittle .
By JEROME ENO | November 30, 2009

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Do over

The Feelies pick up their legacy
I tried hard to be born earlier, but it didn't work. As a result, I've had to contend with an irritatingly positioned cultural blind spot (roughly 1976–1986) that currently occupies all that open space once filled with childhood memories.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | November 18, 2009

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Slow hand

Jeremy Udden’s rocky jazz path
In his Village Voice review of Jeremy Udden’s Plainville (Fresh Sound New Talent), Jim Macnie recalled how a friend of his tried to file it as “jazz for Wilco fans.” As Macnie explained, that’s not the whole story with Udden or Plainville , but it’s not a bad starting point.
By JON GARELICK | October 21, 2009

Slow hand

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

Band of outsiders

The Beatings are at home under the radar
The Beatings got back from their eighth US tour the day before, but they’re already reconvening over at frontman Eldridge Rodriguez’s misplaced little two-story beach house in Lower Allston. I do a double take on the way through the cute picket fence.
By MATT PARISH | September 09, 2009

Major laser

Naked Raygun assess their legacy
Of Naked Raygun's many conquests, perhaps their greatest was impressing Steve Albini. In a 1992 Maximumrocknroll interview, Albini — the sharp-tongued musician/producer who, among other things, once dismissed Nirvana as "R.E.M. with a fuzzbox" and the Pixies as "blandly entertaining college rock" — offered a rare public endorsement.
By REYAN ALI | August 31, 2009

Major laser

Rock of wages

Huak intertwine politics, sentiment, and decades of influences
Huak are the rare local band who, in the two-plus years they've been playing regular gigs, sound bolder and more self-possessed every time you see them.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | August 26, 2009