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Photos: Peter Wolf at the Wilbur Theatre

Peter Wolf at the Wilbur Theatre | May 25, 2010

By JEAN HANGARTER | May 27, 2010

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Peter Wolf | Wilbur Theatre | May 25, 2010

READ: "Midnight ramblers: Rock legend Peter Wolf serves dinner and verse to the Phoenix’s poet," by Lloyd Schwartz

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Photos: The Magnetic Fields at the Wilbur Theatre
Photos of the Magnetic Fields, live at the Wilbur Theatre, on February 11, 2010
Review: Magnetic Fields at the Wilbur Theatre
“Similarly, here’s another song about miserable death,” Stephen Merritt drolly informed us between songs.
Cross Town Traffic at the Wilbur
When bespectacled alt-comic icon David Cross paid a visit to the Wilbur Theatre last October, he giddily tore Boston “a new asshole” — but, hey, at least he was kind enough to have “stitched that new asshole up with jokes.”
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Photos: The Magnetic Fields at the Wilbur Theatre
Photos of the Magnetic Fields, live at the Wilbur Theatre, on February 11, 2010
Review: Magnetic Fields at the Wilbur Theatre
“Similarly, here’s another song about miserable death,” Stephen Merritt drolly informed us between songs.
Cross Town Traffic at the Wilbur
When bespectacled alt-comic icon David Cross paid a visit to the Wilbur Theatre last October, he giddily tore Boston “a new asshole” — but, hey, at least he was kind enough to have “stitched that new asshole up with jokes.”
Interview: MST3K creator Joel Hodgson on Cinematic Titanic's art of bad film
Hodgson has returned to live performance with Cinematic Titanic , a touring version of MST3K that keeps the riffing (but ditches the robots-in-space conceit). In advance of the Cinematic Titanic show at the Wilbur Theatre on Friday, he called to discuss his early influences, movie riffing, and why some films are too awful to mock.
Photos: Wu-Tang Clan and Bad Rabbits at the Wilbur Theatre
Wu-Tang Clan and Bad Rabbits perform live at the Wilbur Theatre on January 3, 2011.
Photos: Henry Gale at Great Scott
Henry Gale celebrate their Earthbound EP release at Great Scott on February 18, 2010
The Big Hurt: Leisurely stroll through Billboard’s ‘Heatseekers’
A year into this whole "Who Charted" thing and I'm finally getting to the most exciting stuff.
No moves required
Some of us are just better off not shaking it in public. So here are a few recurring options for rad nights of music that require not an ounce of dance mojo on your part.
The Souljazz Orchestra | Rising Sun
We're living in the middle of a veritable renaissance of "Spiritual Jazz."
Cotton Candy | Top Notch & First Rate
Anyone who's seen Cotton Candy in person can attest that they're irresistibly camp and cute.
In good Company
Dark Hollow Bottling Company take a piece of their name from an old-school folk/bluegrass tune, "Dark Hollow," possibly made most famous by the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia's Old and in the Way , but also recorded as early as 1926, with popular versions from Bill Browning, Jimmy Skinner, and Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, with Del McCoury singing.
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