Sinead O'Connor

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The Big Hurt: My application to have sex with Sinéad O'Connor

Not a Nigel!
Sinéad O'Connor recently posted a rather extraordinary blog entry, titled "IS SINÉAD ABOUT TO HUMP HER TRUCK?"
By DAVID THORPE | September 06, 2011

Excerpt: Evening’s Empire by Bill Flanagan

In this chapter, "The Drugs Don't Work," aging rock star Emerson Cutler and his manager, Jack Flynn, are seeking inspiration — and desperately trying to jumpstart his career.
By BILL FLANAGAN | February 05, 2010

Put your skirt on

Isobell are a girl with style, grace, and muscle
Portland's aggressive new frontgal can hit all the notes while she hits you in the face.
By SAM PFEIFLE | May 20, 2009

Slideshow: Backstage Pass at PMA

A photographic story of music
Loving obsessive groupie
By PHOENIX STAFF | February 06, 2009

Sober as judges

Dropkick Murphys at Paradise Rock Club, March 17, 2008
He doesn’t chant, “Yankees suck.” Why should we?
By MIKE MILIARD | March 24, 2008

Lulling, dulling, and calm

Sinéad O’Connor, Orpheum Theatre, October 22, 2007
Sinéad O’Connor still has a terrific voice, but the diminutive Irish singer did not seem wholly interested in being at the Orpheum Theatre a week ago Monday.
By JIM SULLIVAN | October 30, 2007

Going on sale: August 3, 2007

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Minus the Bear, Toris Amos, Josh Rouse, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | July 31, 2007

Sinéad O’Connor

Theology | Koch
Sinéad O’Connor in the confession booth?
By JEFF TAMARKIN | May 29, 2007

Rose Kemp

A Hand Full of Hurricanes | One Little Indian
Rose Kemp’s parents are mainstays of the English folk-rock group Steeleye Span.
By BRETT MILANO | May 21, 2007

Free beer

Sam van Aken at Whitney Art Works
There are certain works of art in the face of which the critic must simply bow his head and weep.
By CHRIS THOMPSON | May 09, 2007

Life begins at 40

Letters to the Boston editor: November 24, 2006
I consider myself very lucky to have been introduced to the club scene in the mid ’70s, and I pretty much lived at the Rat, Cantones, the Channel, the Club, etc.
By LETTERS | November 21, 2006

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 32

Intergalactic rock

The secret behind the Campaign for Real-Time stories
I didn’t really get the Campaign for Real-Time until some time after my lengthy interview with the band. Campaign for Real-Time, "In Your Dreams" (mp3)
By WILL SPITZ | July 18, 2006

Jah Wobble

Folking around
If Jah Wobble had done nothing more than compose the throbbing, dub-enormous bass line to PiL’s “Public Image,” he’d still be worth his weight in gold.
By JAMES PARKER | January 31, 2006