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Newton's New Art Center exposes heavy metal from within

The black art
Named for a Candlemass song, staged in a former church, and curated by a pair of noise-loving MassArt grads, the upcoming group show "We Still See the Black" brings a thunderous charge of wrathful, subtle, beguiling, and teeming contemporary art to Newton's New Art Center beginning September 15.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | August 24, 2011

Doing it ninja style

The music industry is slow to change. Here's how four stars are speeding it up.
Take three notorious singer-songwriters and one famous author. Give them eight hours to write and record an eight-song album. Broadcast the session on the internet. Release the album online the next morning, and perform it live in front of an audience the following night.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | April 22, 2011

Wax Museum

Cringe worthy
If you don't cringe, at least a little bit and maybe a lot, when you see Sean Duffy's Burn Out Sun (2003) — a sculptural starburst of crisscrossing LPs bearing the immortal Sun Records label — then you probably aren't much of a record fan.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | April 20, 2011

Net neutrality has become the biggest free speech issue of the 21st century. Is it doomed to failure?

Net loss
One morning last month, Senator Al Franken stood at the podium of a hotel in downtown Austin, looking out at some of the most innovative minds in the country gathered at this year's South by Southwest Interactive conference. "I know that many of you have heard people talk about net neutrality before," he said, "but I want to take just a moment to explain it, because part of the strategy being used to destroy net neutrality is to confuse Americans about what the term even means."

By: CARLY CARIOLI | April 11, 2011

Tim Wu, historian of information empires

Net brutality
It's 1934 and an engineer at Bell Labs by the name of Clarence Hickman has a secret machine in his office. It is the only one of its kind in existence.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | February 02, 2011

Maddow to media: come out of the closet

Cronkette
Cronkette

By: CARLY CARIOLI | November 17, 2010

Interview: Pat McGrath on the strange, cruel, beautiful life of Billy Ruane

The final word
Longtime Ruane friend Pat McGrath talks about Billy's mania, his wealth and his ignorance of money, his tragic family history, and the epic task of keeping him (just barely) on track.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | November 12, 2010

Exclusive: M.I.A. talks creativity, politics, celebrity, and Maya

"A lot of the time, if you're creative, you're born with a glitch" ...
M.I.A.'s back in town to play two shows at the Royale -- and once again she's got something to prove.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | October 01, 2010

Dear Phoenix Readers

A word from the new editor
’Sup.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | June 25, 2010

Review: Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

Slim portrait of a mysterious, monosyllabic man
Stephin Merritt, the inscrutable and reluctant frontman of Magnetic Fields, is short, gay, and owns a chihuahua. Otherwise, details are scarce.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | April 21, 2010

Best Music Poll 2009 concert

A 40,000-person group hug
Stream audio of all the bands' performances, watch video highlights, download interview podcasts, browse concert and behind-the-scenes photos, and share your own photos and videos at the Boston Phoenix Web site or WFNX's site.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | August 11, 2009

Interview: Michael Jackson's autobiographer

Stephen Davis, ghostwriter of Moon Walk, remembers the King of Pop. And his monkey.
"This was still a 30 year old black kid when I was working with him," Davis says, still incredulous at Jackson's death. "And the guy who just died looked kind of like a 60 year old white woman in garish lipstick. Kind of like the Joker."

By: CARLY CARIOLI | July 06, 2009

BSO announces layoffs

Boston Symphony Orchestra blames tanking economy for five-percent staff reduction
Another painful day for the culture industry.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | June 23, 2009

PJ Harvey wants your fucking ass

PJ Harvey + John Parish | House of Blues, Boston | June 6, 2009
PJ Harvey's two albums with John Parish are not her best work. (Go ahead and argue it, if you like.) The first, Dance Hall At Louse Point , was a surprise departure from her game-changing To Bring You My Love , an album that sold far less than Madonna records but packed as much cultural impact -- back when rock albums and cultural impact were still on speaking terms.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | June 08, 2009

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Little more than an infomercial for the soundtracks
Although Senior Year makes the most of its big-screen debut by increasing the body counts in its group-choreography numbers, it’s a smaller movie than its chart-topping, direct-to-cable predecessors.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | October 28, 2008

Mangum's opus

Neutral Milk Hotel's epic Aeroplane
This article originally appeared in the March 5, 1998 issue of the Boston Phoenix.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | March 07, 2008

Thanks for nothing, Thom

Radiohead rant
Thanks for deciding to fuck the music industry in all three holes by giving away your new album, In Rainbows, for free on the Internet.

By: CARLY CARIOLI | October 03, 2007

R.I.P., Mr. Butch

Folk hero, "King of Kenmore Square," dead in scooter crash
Folk hero, "King of Kenmore Square," dead in scooter crash

By: CARLY CARIOLI | July 13, 2007

Dancing queens

Madonna at the Garden
Speaking as someone who's always wondered what would've happened if Madonna had stayed in crappy punk bands and never graduated to pop, I always cheer when she picks up a guitar. Slideshow: Madonna at TD Banknorth Garden, July 6, 2006

By: CARLY CARIOLI | January 28, 2010

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