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Street Sweeper Social Club | The Ghetto Blaster EP

SSSC/ILG (2010)
A seven-song slice of propaganda for this summer's Rock the Bells.
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | August 24, 2010

Lightspeed Champion | Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You!

Domino (2010)
Devonté Hynes first appeared as a member of the joky UK dance-punk trio Test Icicles.
By MIKAEL WOOD | March 03, 2010

Crossword: ''It's a Tough Job''

But you totally get used to it.
But you totally get used to it.
By MATT JONES | February 24, 2010

WFNX's top 101 songs of the decade

The top 101 songs of the decade from WFNX 101.7 FM
Video of WFNX's top 101 songs of the decade
By WFNX AND PHOENIX STAFF | January 06, 2010

WFNX's top 101 songs in 2009

WFNX's most popular songs in 2009
Videos of the 101 most requested songs on WFNX in 2009
By WFNX AND PHOENIX STAFF | January 03, 2011

The orchestral stylings of Rustic Overtones 2.0
When drummer Tony McNaboe delivered the burned copy of Rustic Overtones’ new full-length album, he tucked it inside the packaging of the re-released and re-mastered Long Division.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 05, 2009

Crossword: ''On an axis''

From one end to the other
From one end to the other
By MATT JONES | September 24, 2008

Club-to-theater update

Venue shifts
“If you take the biggest 100 names in comedy, you’ll see 90 of them here in the next couple of years.”
By JIM SULLIVAN | August 13, 2008

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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

Photos: Lollapalooza 2008

Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Gnarls Barkley, Girl Talk, Broken Social Scene, Cat Power, Grizzly Bear, and more
Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Gnarls Barkley, Girl Talk, Broken Social Scene, Cat Power, Grizzly Bear, and more
By MELISSA POCEK AND MEREDITH HASSETT | August 07, 2008

Hollerpalooza

Eli Reed says he’s better than Otis
Eli “Paperboy” Reed seems dubious about my following him for a few hours before and after his five o’clock Lollapalooza show in Chicago’s Grant Park last Sunday.
By DEVIN KING | August 05, 2008

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Going on sale: July 11, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Ra Ra Riot, Of Montreal, Gnarls Barkley, Craig Ferguson and more.
By GOING ON SALE | July 08, 2008

Crappy electronics show

Big Fat Whale
Sucky, Luke Wilson, and Moses
By BRIAN MCFADDEN | January 13, 2010

’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

Calling for back-up

Slick Rick gets fly with a little help from his friends
Of all the tumult and talent swinging through town in 2006, I cherish most my memories of Audible Mainframe backing Slick Rick at Harpers Ferry.
By CHRIS FARAONE | May 12, 2008

Record lows, indies peak

Musical notes
Last week’s number 10 album, Van Morrison’s Keep it Simple, sold just 37,000 copies.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | April 16, 2008

Vowel free

Rcrd Lbl's free and legal downloads
Rcrd Lbl pays both artists and labels like Warp and Modular in exchange for permission to post songs.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | December 17, 2007

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

Admiring the scenery

Music seen at Geno's and the Soundpost, August 1 and 5, 2007
My fondness for such superlatives requires that I spread the gossip.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | August 08, 2007

Pop goes to war

Music and movies are vital coping mechanisms for US servicepeople in Iraq. And often, say four local troops, after they get home.
Next time you put on the new Spoon single to make that subway ride go by a little faster, consider what musical escapism means to troops in Iraq.
By MIKE MILIARD | July 25, 2007

Cultural exchanges

Spank Rock’s Chris Rockswell and Brazil’s DJ Dolores
CHRIS ROCKSWELL, the official DJ for the club-rap phenom SPANK ROCK, says people are always asking him, “What does your neighborhood sound like?” DJ Dolores & Isaar "De Dar Dó (remix)" (mp3)
By DAVID DAY | July 03, 2007

Crossword: ''Hi, steaks''

See if you can make the cut
See if you can make the cut
By MATT JONES | June 20, 2007

I'm like a bore

Nelly Furtado, Agganis Arena, June 5, 2007
The Nelly Furtado concert was off to a fine, Lite-Brite sort of start.
By ELLEE DEAN | June 06, 2007

London falling

Damon Albarn’s The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Damon Albarn — Blur frontman, Gorillaz supremo, and now millennial minstrel to the drowning city of London — is that eerie modern specimen, the pop star who talks like a critic. The Good, The Bad, and the Queen, "Kingdom of Doom" (streaming video)
By JAMES PARKER | February 21, 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

The new tastemakers

Does Pandora know you better than you do?
It’s a cliché by now, but the Internet allows you to be whomever you want to be.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | January 31, 2007

Welcome to the real world

Virtual insanity
When it comes to Second Life ( SL ), the immersive “metaverse” that’s gotten reams of breathless media coverage over the past six months, hard numbers are hard to come by.
By MIKE MILIARD | January 24, 2007

Guest lists

What 30 of the Phoenix 's music critics liked this year
What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 02, 2007