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The Dears | Degeneration Street

Dangerbird Records (2011)
This fifth and latest album from the Dears suggests that these Montreal natives need to clear out some Britpop cobwebs.
By MIRIAM LAMEY | February 16, 2011

Weekend | Sports

Slumberland Records (2010)
Even in an age of excessive internet awareness and never-ending blog hype, it's easy to miss a young touring band on their first stop through town.
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | November 30, 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

Spring fever

Ten shows you didn't know you'd be going to
As action-packed as the holidays are, they can be a real dead zone when it comes to decent shows.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 30, 2009

A Place To Bury Strangers | Exploding Head

Mute (2009)
When it comes to the resurgence of all things shoegaze, only one question remains: how literal do you want it?
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | April 13, 2011

The Raveonettes | In and Out of Control

Vice (2009)
Jesus and Mary Chain comparisons aside, this Danish duo established their sound eight years ago by patching together an aural quilt of retro-rock roots — from garage to surf to wall of sound — and haven't wavered since.
By ANNE VICKMAN | October 05, 2009

A flair for the drama

Great Scott, January 4, 2009
"There's not enough hype in the world for Glasvegas," old reliable hypemonger NME recently proclaimed. But that doesn't mean the magazine and the rest of the British music press aren't trying.
By WILL SPITZ | January 09, 2009

Pedal pushers

A Place To Bury Strangers have it in for your earbones
The history of rock is littered with crazies who have craved nothing more than volume on top of volume, who have short-circuited themselves in the pursuit of the purity of noise.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | September 08, 2008

Interview: Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Mission: control freak
In the 2004 documentary DiG! , the Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor reacts to the musical criticism of a Capitol Records executive by scoffing, “I sneeze and hits come out!”
By FRANKLIN SOULTS | September 08, 2008

Indie gets the blues

The Gossip, the Black Keys, and the Kills
White rockers generally come by the blues one of two ways.
By MATT ASHARE | April 23, 2008

A very loud empire

Death by Audio's DIY artists
Work those connections, because the Holy Fuck show at the Middle East upstairs this Friday is already sold out.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 18, 2008

Unseated

Liars at Paradise, February 8, 2008
On the eve of Liars’ current US tour, frontman Angus Andrew — an Aussie expat — threw out his back and was, by all accounts, immobile.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | February 12, 2008

Cold remedies

Stephin Merritt warms up on Distortion
One suspects all colds are terrible in the world of Stephin Merritt.
By MATT ASHARE | January 07, 2008

Start with some Spice

A recipe for a tuneful 2008
The game is on for the reunited Spice Girls.
By MATT ASHARE | December 26, 2007

Boston music news: September 21, 2007

Notes on Chris Brokaw and Session Americana
For the better part of a decade,Chris Brokaw was best known as Thalia Zedek’s guitar foil in the local band Come.
By JIM SULLIVAN | September 18, 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

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Baby 81 | RCA
The songwriting isn’t BRMC’s most memorable, but Baby 81’s noise-roots fumes are pretty thick.
By MIKAEL WOOD | April 23, 2007

Heard it first

Coachella no-names
I decided to check out four bands on the bill whom I’d never heard.
By WILL SPITZ | February 07, 2007

Fennesz

Endless Summer | Editions Mego
Originally released in 2001, this fuzzed-out masterpiece by the Vienna-based Christian Fennesz is finally back in print, with two bonus tracks, a snazzy new cover, and a sharper mix from Fennesz himself.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER | January 02, 2007

Coast to coast

Monstrous go west, find their sound, and return
Monstrous’ stealthy rise on the independent music scene has gone largely unnoticed, mainly because the trio has made most of its progress out of town, specifically in Portland, Oregon.
By BOB GULLA | December 12, 2006

And three more boxes

Gift ideas for the music fan on your list
Among post-punk offshoots, perhaps the hardest to define is “goth.”
By MATT ASHARE | December 12, 2006

Lotta-palooza

This year’s model offers much more than music
This article originally appeared in the August 14, 1992 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By ROBERT MOSES | October 25, 2006

Syd Barrett

1946-2006
Without meaning to, Barrett invented one of rock’s enduring archetypes: the visionary who burns brightly just long enough to become a bona fide star before plummeting into introversion and, in this case, a silence lasting more than 30 years.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO | July 21, 2006

Television Personalities

My Dark Places | Comino
“Beautifully sloppy” was a phrase once used to describe the work of Dan Treacy, the mastermind behind Television Personalities, one of the UK’s most consistent cult bands of the past two-plus decades.
By RYAN FOLEY | May 25, 2006