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The Big Hurt: Lep, Squire, Cee-Lo, and Sufjan duke it out

Lamewatch!
There's no end of lameness in music news this week, but here are a few of the highlights.
By DAVID THORPE | May 19, 2011

WFNX's top 101 songs in 2010

WFNX's most popular songs in 2010
WFNX listeners voted online at wfnx.com for six weeks to create this list of 2010's best songs.
By WFNX AND PHOENIX STAFF | January 04, 2011

Ray LaMontagne impresses People

You know, the "Sibilance" staff just happened to be glancing through a copy of PEOPLE magazine (not that we read it — our wives do!) when we came across a 3.5-out-of-4-star review of the new RAY LAMONTAGNE album. No wonder it sold 100,000 copies in the first two weeks!
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | September 08, 2010

The Big Hurt: Tila gets shat on

Plus Faithless sell out, plus Jay Electronica vs. Lil B, and props for Cee Lo
Did anyone really expect better of Juggalos, or wish better on Tila? I'm sure we'd all rather the two parties just didn't exist.
By DAVID THORPE | September 01, 2010

Review: Anthony Hamilton | The Point of it All

Zomba
Anthony Hamilton is like a latter-day Bill Withers, with a gruff, straight-talkin' voice that can holler at you from across the room and then downshift to a gentler, fatherly tone once you draw close.
By ZETH LUNDY | December 16, 2008

Mirror ball

Fables of deconstruction
The stirring pop hits of the day can’t help but reflect the refracting cracked mirror of our nation’s increasingly emotion-laden psyche.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | September 08, 2008

Gnarls Barkley + Hercules and Love Affair

Wilbur Theatre, August 6, 2008
To the cynic, the scene milling around in front of the sold-out Wilbur could merely have been proof of the power of a hit single.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | August 12, 2008

’Round the outside

The most popular artists in our BMP have indie roots
Although music isn’t necessarily getting more political in content these days, it does seem to be borrowing a trope from the political world.
By MATT ASHARE | May 19, 2008

Desert session

Josh Homme’s lullabies of love
For nearly two decades, Josh Homme has had countless irons in the rock-and-roll fire.
By WILL SPITZ | December 16, 2008

Chairmen of the boards

Our critics pick the 14 producers with the fattest, meanest beats
Not unlike Swedish, Tagalog, and Esperanto, music is a language, with its own conjugations and (lewdly) dangling participles.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | October 18, 2007

Justify my love

He already brought sexy back. Now can Justin Timberlake shed his boy-band image and become a music legend?
Oh, Justin. Even you know that your undeniable charisma and brilliantly executed choreography somehow balance out your post-boy-band status and lack of indie cred. Justin Timberlake on Saturday Night Live, "Dick in a Box" (YouTube)
By SHARON STEEL | February 05, 2007

Neo-new-what?

A year in national pop
The real album of the year is a disc that probably didn’t cross many people’s paths in 2006, a Rhino comp titled Future Retro that pairs various DJs/electronicists (Richard X, Tiga, the Crystal Method) with classic new-wave tracks by the Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, Depeche Mode, and New Order.
By MATT ASHARE | December 28, 2006

Sleepy Brown

Mr. Brown | Virgin
One third of the legendary Organized Noise production team, and best known for guesting on the upbeat, brilliant-if-overplayed “The Way You Move” from Big Boi, Sleepy Brown is no Pharrell muscling in on the real talents at the mic.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER | November 28, 2006

Sense in the sound

When it comes to singing (jazz and otherwise), it's about more than words
In Stephen Sondheim’s old formulation, opera is about music and musical theater is about words.
By JON GARELICK | September 20, 2006

On the racks: August 15, 2006

Christina Aguilera, Panic Channel, Skycycle . . .
. . . plus mothafuckin' snakes
By MATT ASHARE | August 17, 2006

Gnarls Barkley: Rebirth of soul

Gnarls Barkley at Avalon, August 12, 2006
I’m probably not the only one who went to the Gnarls Barkly show Friday night at Avalon wondering if the costumes would be the most interesting part. Slideshow: Gnarls Barkley at Avalon, August 11, 2006
By CARLY CARIOLI | August 14, 2006

Hype writers

Gnarls Barkley punch all the right keys
St. Elsewhere has songs about Inspector Gadget, Transformers, necrophilia, and various kinds of monsters. Fun fun fun. Fantastic Voyagers: your soundtrack to summer . By Nick Sylvester
By NICK SYLVESTER | June 08, 2006

Wicked games

Hanging with Giant Drag at Coachella
There was a time, not that long ago, when the two-or-three-day rock-festival experience was reserved for the Brits.
By JEFF MILLER | May 12, 2006

Dave Ghetto

LOVE LIFE? | Counterflow
The Camden MC talks real slow, but he’s quick with the metaphors, and more empathetic than preachy.
By JAMIN WARREN | January 13, 2006