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Photos: The Magnetic Fields at the Wilbur Theatre

The Magnetic Fields, live at the Wilbur Theatre, on February 11, 2010

By ERIN BALDASSARI | February 18, 2010

Photo: ERIN BALDASSARI

The Magnetic Fields | Wilbur Theatre | February 11, 2010

READ:Michael Brodeur's interview with the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt

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Review: Magnetic Fields at the Wilbur Theatre
“Similarly, here’s another song about miserable death,” Stephen Merritt drolly informed us between songs.
Play by Play: March 19, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule.
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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Review: Magnetic Fields at the Wilbur Theatre
“Similarly, here’s another song about miserable death,” Stephen Merritt drolly informed us between songs.
Play by Play: March 19, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule.
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.”
Photos: Peter Wolf at the Wilbur Theatre
Peter Wolf, live at the Wilbur Theatre, on May 25, 2010
Eddie & the Louvers, Paraplegics and Gut Bucket at Club Hell
Punk/hardcore heads will convene at Club Hell (401.709.3923) for an all-ages tilt featuring Rhythmafia, EDDIE & THE LOUVERS, THE PARAPLEGICS , and GUT BUCKET on FRIDAY (the 28th). Creeping around Aquidneck? Be sure to stop by Billy Goode’s for a freebie with BLIZZARD OF ‘78 and Boston’s JENNY DEE & THE DELINQUENTS , call 401.848.5013 for details.
Street corner symphonies
We’d be happy enough if Jersey Boys were just a musical revue, thrumming with the the Four Seasons’ hit parade. But on top of that we get a compelling story, following the lives of ’60s heartthrob Frankie Valli and those who rocketed to fame with him.
Various Artists | A Boston State Of Mind Volume 2
Every night, when I get home from reporting facts, I poison the Internet with innuendo on a Boston-based hip-hop blog called jumptheturnstyle.com.
Ketman | Ketman a Go Go
The winking disconnect between Ketman’s promotional art (swingin’ young people from a half-century ago enjoying the pleasures of their hi-fi system; Twiggy types with black bars across their eyes) and Ketman’s music (lean, pugilistic rock with 1980s American punk in its rear-view mirror) is now a little less disconnect-y.
Crystal Castles | Crystal Castles (2010)
The battlefield of ’00s electro-tantrum spazz-ravers is littered with the corpses of those who burned too brightly at the outset and, in the process, burned out any interest in a sustained career of noisemaking.
Daydream believer
Long a young songwriter with buzz, Pete Miller has been woodshedding with Eric Bettencourt all winter working on a debut record that sees the light of day this weekend.
Everyone Everywhere | Everyone Everywhere
Remember when emo wasn’t just some watered-down pop-punk version of goth? No? Well . . . it wasn’t.
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