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White trash heroes

Arab on Radar are back on the attack
It is official — iconic PVD noisemongers Arab on Radar are back on the grid and about to end their eight-year hiatus with a nationwide reunion tour beginning this weekend in Easthampton, Massachusetts, followed by a stop at AS220 on July 3.
By CHRIS CONTI | June 30, 2010

Video: The 12 acts you should've seen at Bonnaroo 2010

From the xx to Jay-Z
When I told my bosses here at the Phoenix that I was going to need some time off to attend Bonnaroo for my third year in a row, I expected to hear something along the lines of, "Have fun, don't die, and we'll see you when you get back."
By MICHAEL C. WALSH | June 22, 2010

The Devil makes them do it

Digging deep with the Benedictions
"Americana, on the rocks" is the official tagline for the Benedictions, steady cooking since forming just 16 months ago (more on that in a minute), led by a familiar name on the folk circuit in G.W. Mercure.
By CHRIS CONTI | June 24, 2010

Genre-jumping

Plus, Pints For Paws at Nick-A-Nee’s
WBRU’s free summer concert series at Waterplace Park is in full swing, and expert blues outfit SIT DOWN BABY get the call on FRIDAY (the 25th) at 7:30 pm.
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | June 22, 2010

Marie Stella + Dead Man’s Clothes + Art of Shooting at Bayside Bowl

Music Seen
Marie Stella's EP-release show was as much a social happening as it was a concert.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | June 16, 2010

Lullabyes to paralyze

Off the Couch
Allysen Callery & Friends visit AS220
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 20, 2010

Review: Class Machine, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Dead Man’s Clothes

Music Seen
May 10, SPACE Gallery + Port City Music Hall, Portland
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | May 13, 2010

The final four

The Wandas hit the ground running at the ’BRU Rock Hunt
From Yiddish speed-rhymes to Latin funk, the 2010 Rock Hunt finals once again delivered a musically diverse and thoroughly-entertaining show at Lupo’s last Saturday.
By CHRIS CONTI | April 14, 2010

Tuneful throwdown

The 2010 WBRU Rock Hunt semi-finalists, Pt. 1
"The WBRU Rock Hunt is not designed to find the best 'alternative rock' act — we're out to find the best live act looking to earn more exposure along with some pretty cool prizes."
By CHRIS CONTI | March 17, 2010

Sonny, Pat, and all the cats

Names you know and names you should
The primo jazz event of the spring will be SONNY ROLLINS 's concert at Symphony Hall on April 18 (bso.org). The great master saxophonist and peerless improviser often hits town in April, and this time it's to kick off his 80th-birthday tour. Whew.
By JON GARELICK | March 09, 2010

The Rock Off is on, and other music news

Sibilance
Tone King Andy Argondizza has organized a benefit show for Nick Curran, who was recently diagnosed with cancer and, being a musician, isn’t exactly rocking all-inclusive health insurance.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | March 03, 2010

Straight outta Tallahassee

Kyle Campol’s Imadethismistake
Tallahassee transplant (via Toronto) Kylewilliam Campol absolutely loves to call Rhode Island home, having moved here last May to further his career as a musician and establish the world headquarters for his post-punk outfit Imadethismistake — a move some homegrown cynics may consider ass-backwards.
By CHRIS CONTI | March 04, 2010

Review: Rogue Wave at the Paradise

Rogue Wave, live at the Paradise Rock Club, March 1, 2010
On the first stop on their first tour in almost two years, Rogue Wave bounded onstage with what can only be called sheer delight, greeting the crowd like old friends they were pleasantly surprised to run into.
By ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | March 05, 2010

Shaking through

Off the Couch
High-powered indie-punk at AS220
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | February 24, 2010

Loaded weekend

From Ready Ink to Alec K. Redfearn
The Chelsy Lau Band head to Cat’s in Pawtucket with guests She Rides, Red Lanterns, and The Organ Beats; and more.
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | February 10, 2010

Love among the ruins

Eternal Otter documents make-ups, breakups, and shake-ups
To Will Ethridge, who runs the small Portland-based label Eternal Otter Records, any song or album is just one crucial piece of a larger puzzle.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | January 20, 2010

In your ear

Minky + Shannon + Bogus + more
On THURSDAY (the 21st), FAR OFF PLACE stay close to home with a free gig at the Knickerbocker Cafe.
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 20, 2010

Behind the Red Curtain

Performance Outlook
On Saturday, four singer/songwriters will perform "in the round" at the North Star. Nothing necessarily unusual about that.
By SAM PFEIFLE | January 13, 2010

2010 preview

Music Seen
What’s coming to the clubs
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | December 30, 2009

Complaint Department

Letters to the Portland Editor, January 1, 2010
Can we have a benefit show or something in the coming year to save up enough money to buy three ghosts (preferably the ghosts of local rock's past, present, and future) to visit Sam Pfeifle in his dreams to tell him the following.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | December 30, 2009

See ya, '09!

Off the Couch
Forget those gift cards burning a hole in your pocket and catch some good shows around to close out '09.
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 22, 2009

Review: Fanfarlo at T.T. the Bear's

Fanfarlo, live at T.T. the Bear's Place, December 17, 2009
I wasn't expecting much from London indie-pop band Fanfarlo at T.T.the Bear's last Thursday evening. For the passed month, I had a live performance of theirs bouncing around my iPod, which I downloaded only because I thought their name was cool.
By DAVID BOFFA | December 22, 2009

Ho, ho, ho!

Off the Couch
Get out of the house, house, house!
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 15, 2009

Epic Win

The Martyrdom of Junius
It never seemed possible, but metal is finally getting comfortable with indie-rock proportions. What once required enormous stages with catwalks and hyperactive spark machines now really needs only kids throwing all-ages shows in basements. It's a bit more modest an existence — nobler, somehow. Nerdier, even.
By MATT PARISH | December 09, 2009

Review: Bad Boy Made Good

The revival of George Anthiel's 1924 Ballet méchanique
If Igor Stravinsky’s Sacre du printemps paved the way for modern rock, then George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique made possible every genre of contemporary music with “noise” or “metal” in its name.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | November 03, 2009

Keep moving!

Off the Couch
Sharp sounds all over the state
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | November 03, 2009

Review: Michael Jackson's This Is It

Is this it?
The Star Wars –style titles that begin Kenny Ortega’s hastily assembled Michael Jackson tribute documentary explain that the film has been whittled down from 100 hours of behind-the-scenes video shot between last April and June during rehearsals for the King of Pop’s planned 50-date “This Is It” London concert series.
By BRETT MICHEL | November 12, 2009

Make-believe Main Street

Lifestyle centers create public squares in private places. Can a nation undone by sprawl be saved by the Mall?
WaterFire, bocce, oh my!
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | November 10, 2009

Pink Martini | Splendor in the Grass

Heinz (2009)
The members of Portland’s Pink Martini have covered plenty of well-known songs in their decade and a half together, like “Que Sera, Sera” on their 1997 debut, and the theme from I Dream of Jeannie in their early live shows.
By MIKAEL WOOD | October 30, 2009

Hip-hop from Hell

Horrorcore salutes Ice Cube and Alice Cooper
Depraved hip-hop is the biggest thing to hit trailer-trash America since sliced meds.
By CHRIS FARAONE | October 29, 2009