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Mitch Alden | Old Habits

Mitch Alden's solo debut
Mitch Alden has always been an earnest guy. Over the course of his previous two full-length records fronting pop-rock band Now Is Now, he's made his bones penning new-agey, pop-rock, sun-shiney tunes.
By SAM PFEIFLE | January 20, 2011

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

Mood swings

Chris Pureka makes highs out of lows
There’s nothing like getting socked in the head with a big fat metaphor — and if it’s carried along by some solid guitar playing, so much the better.
By JONATHAN DONALDSON | April 06, 2010

Reeling in the years

John Pizzarelli keeps jazz moving on
Call John Pizzarelli a mensch — he's smart, chatty, and a hot ticket. Hell of a guitarist, too.
By JIM MACNIE | February 25, 2010

The Big Hurt: Everybody hurting

Warning: Scorpions content
The music industry's response to the Haiti disaster has been pretty great, since it's given some huge names a chance to complete the vital circuit between the public's heartstrings and their wallets.
By DAVID THORPE | February 02, 2010

The Big Hurt: Faces refaced

Also Spears speared, Hook hacked
Faces refaced, Spears speared, Hook hacked
By DAVID THORPE | November 24, 2009

Photos: Charles Daniels at Nave Gallery

'In Through the Out Door: Photography & Video of Charles Daniels,' on display until October 4
Images from Charles Daniels' photography exhibit at the Nave Gallery
By CHARLES DANIELS | October 02, 2009

Marianne Faithfull | Easy Come Easy Go

Decca (2009)
The CD cover is deceptively retro Sinatra: here's Marianne encased in a lady's tux in front of a vintage microphone with "Easy" twice on the title and the subtitle "12 Songs for Music Lovers."
By GUSTAVO TURNER | March 23, 2009

Interview: Greil Marcus

Rock's critic-in-chief talks rock and roll photography
Greil Marcus on rock-and-roll photography
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | January 21, 2009

Year in pictures

Imagery 2008
Imagery 2008
By PHOENIX STAFF | January 28, 2010

The Big Hurt: Frequently asked questions

Pop's great rhetorical inquiries answered in uncomfortably erotic detail
Who wrote the book of love? Book of Love (1990) was a low-budget teen comedy that I rented once on a whim.
By DAVID THORPE | December 17, 2008

Shirts off their backs

How To Dress Like a Rock Star
How To Dress Like a Rock Star
By JIM SULLIVAN | November 20, 2008

Canon ball

Carbon/Silicon at T.T. the Bear's Place, April 5, 2008
Britpunk enthusiasts got a taste of what might have been Saturday night as two legends of ’77 — Mick Jones and Tony James — brought their new band Carbon/Silicon to a packed T.T.
By MATT ASHARE | April 08, 2008

Defending the universally loathed

The Phoenix looks with loving eyes at some of the worst people, places, and things in the world — and gives them a big hug
Forsaken entities deserve a second chance.
By PHOENIX STAFF | January 14, 2008

New Orleans notes

A city holds fast to its soul
This year as last, the refrain at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was: “We’re back.”
By JON GARELICK | May 08, 2007

Crash course

Cindy Bullens gets down to business at USM
To move up in the world of music, one key is what you know; the other is whom you know.
By LISA CRAIG | February 21, 2007

Going on sale: December 15, 2006

Breaking news from the concert-ticket trade
Fall Out Boy, New Found Glory, Rod Stewart, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | December 13, 2006

Going on sale: December 15, 2006

Breaking news from the concert-ticket trade
Fall Out Boy, New Found Glory, Rod Stewart, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | December 13, 2006

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

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 23

On the racks: October 10, 2006

From Gothic Archies to Mod Rods to little Lohans
Plus Robert Pollard, Sting, and the Cure.
By MATT ASHARE | October 10, 2006

Mr. Crafty

Brett Rosenberg solves a few problems
When Brett Rosenberg and I meet for an interview in Porter Square, we keep getting distracted by the sight of Al Kooper walking past Bruegger’s Bagel Bakery. Brett Rosenberg, "Absolutely Not" (mp3)
By BRETT MILANO | September 21, 2006

Forward into the past!

Oldies and more in the season’s CD releases
Could it be just a coincidence that as I sit here writing this, a grizzled Bob Seger is gearing up for the release of Face the Promise , the Detroit rocker’s first proper studio album in, oh, forever and a day? The Lemonheads, "No Backbone" (mp3)
By MATT ASHARE | September 14, 2006

Amrheins Restaurant

Change is (mostly) a good thing
Back in the days of South African apartheid, there was a period when popular music stars were lured to play at Sun City, a stadium in a bantustan that was pretending not to be part of apartheid.
By ROBERT NADEAU | July 19, 2006

Bruce Springsteen: engine trouble?

Live and On Record
“Human Touch" and "Better Days" sound dispiritingly commercial in a way Springsteen's material hasn't sounded before.
By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK | May 22, 2006