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Black Moth Super Rainbow | Eating Us

Graveface (2009)
As a band trading in a specific and idiosyncratic brand of psychedelic, pastoral synth-porn, Black Moth Super Rainbow don't seem to produce records so much as additional views into a doped-up, Katamari-like world.
By MARTIN PAVLINIC | May 27, 2009

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Review: Little Willie John | Nineteen Sixty Six: The David Axelrod & HB Barnum Sessions

Kent Records (2008)
Rare soul
By GUSTAVO TURNER | December 19, 2008

Koushik | Out My Window

Stones Throw (2008)
Although unshy about his background, he’s a subtle arranger, reluctant to play the Bollywood card (there’s not even a teaspoon of Asha).
By GUSTAVO TURNER | September 23, 2008

Granite up for grabs

Why McCain, Obama, and their supporters are swooping down on New Hampshire
Presidential candidates and their surrogates spend most of their time in high-population, close-contest areas.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | September 17, 2008

Herbie Hancock, et al.

Hear O Israel, A Prayer Ceremony In Jazz | Jonny
English master of obscure reissues Jonny Trunk strikes again.
By GUSTAVO TURNER | July 01, 2008

Communication breakdown

How did Deval Patrick's greatest strength become a dangerous weakness?
You campaign in poetry, Mario Cuomo famously claimed, but you govern in prose. Don’t buy the dichotomy.
By ADAM REILLY | April 24, 2008

Clinton’s ‘kitchen-sink’ strategy could yield Pyrrhic victory

Talking points
Many Democrats, it seems safe to say, never thought a Democrat, let alone Hillary Clinton, would use a similar tactic.
By IAN DONNIS | March 12, 2008

That’s what he said

Barack Obama sounds just like Deval Patrick. Is that good or bad?
More than any other presidential candidate, Barack Obama owes his success to sheer rhetorical power.
By ADAM REILLY | January 17, 2008

Ego Trippin’

Obama can still win the Democratic nomination — b ut first, he has to get over himself
All the stories chronicling the demise of the Barack Obama campaign are premature, no matter what the current polls say.
By STEVEN STARK | October 10, 2007

Deval’s New Hampshire Dilemma

Who to back, how to dis Mitt, and what about Nevada?
Mitt Romney has left Deval Patrick a full raft of problems, from last Friday’s out-of-the-blue unilateral cuts to the state budget to a broken downtown tunnel system people are afraid to drive through.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 14, 2006