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By | January 01, 0001

CocoRosie | Grey Oceans

Sub Pop (2010)
Freak-folk fans disappointed by the relative accessibility of recent efforts by Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom should check out CocoRosie’s latest.
By MIKAEL WOOD | May 19, 2010

By | January 01, 0001

Joanna Newsom's masterful Have One On Me
People have always thought that Joanna Newsom was indulgent. At first, it was about her voice — the kind of nasal yelp that usually keeps a performer from getting on stage at all. Then, on her second album, it was about her vocabulary and her instrumentation.
By RICHARD BECK | March 09, 2010

By | January 01, 0001

Slow hand

Jeremy Udden’s rocky jazz path
In his Village Voice review of Jeremy Udden’s Plainville (Fresh Sound New Talent), Jim Macnie recalled how a friend of his tried to file it as “jazz for Wilco fans.” As Macnie explained, that’s not the whole story with Udden or Plainville , but it’s not a bad starting point.
By JON GARELICK | October 21, 2009

Slow hand

Review: Mirah at Somerville Theatre

At the Somerville Theatre, October 9, 2009
The mid-March release date of Portland-based singer/songwriter Mirah’s newest solo album, (A)spera , seemed ill fitting.
By CARRIE BATTAN | October 15, 2009

Bat for Lashes | Two Suns

Astralwerks (2009)
Natasha Khan became a sort of viral video sensation a couple of years ago with her inventive video for "What's a Girl To Do."
By GUSTAVO TURNER | April 06, 2009

Year in Local Pop: Local motion

Our 2008 playlist
Bands come and go, but songs stick around.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 22, 2008

Insides out

The projective folk of Mr. Sister
The everyday interaction with animals other than domestic pets has become a whimsical thing of the past. Which leaves those musicians who still write numbers with furry protagonists in a bit of a throwback situation, their songs almost instant period pieces.
By MATT PARISH | December 05, 2008

Podcastic!

Band in Boston escapes to the web
If you’re flummoxed by the dizzying breadth of our rock scene, a good place to start deflummoxing might be the trifecta of Band in Boston podcasts.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | August 19, 2008

Fuming through the dog days

Five new albums to soundtrack a passive-aggressive summer
In preparation for another three months of endless days and sweaty nights, here are five new albums to get you through the summer.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | June 18, 2008

A Peapod grows in Portland

A young label sports sonic wisdom
Harrity’s albums sound like the work of an invisible hand, and it’s apparent that he likes it that way.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | May 07, 2008

White Hinterland

Phylactery Factory | Dead Oceans
In January, Scituate native Casey Dienel blogged: “For the present and foreseeable future, there won’t be any more Casey Dienel.”
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | April 22, 2008

Just the two of us

Nat Baldwin lugs his bass into your heart
I almost slept over at Nat Baldwin’s house once.
By CAMILLE DODERO | April 22, 2008

The Writ stuff

Cass McCombs finds his indie-folk footing
Cass McCombs upends standard persona-building moves.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO | November 01, 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

Trees outside the museum

Video: Thurston Moore live at the MFA
Video: Thurston Moore live at the MFA
By BOSTON PHOENIX VIDEO | October 04, 2007

Post-traumatic asceticism

Marissa Nadler’s icy, transporting gothic folk
If Songs III: Bird on the Water didn’t begin on a such a stirring note, it would be a lot easier to fault Marissa Nadler for icy detachment.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 05, 2007

Cool papa, hot mama

John Phillips’s solo album, Karen Dalton’s In My Own Time
Between Phil Spector’s becoming rock and roll’s first teen millionaire and the rock tycoons who emerged some decades later lies the rise of the hippie aristocrat.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | April 30, 2007

A muse amused

Kristin Hersh discovers the bright side of life
There are a few good reasons to admire Kristin Hersh’s latest solo album, Learn To Sing like a Star . Hersh's bar: The essentials. By Brett Milano
By BRETT MILANO | February 27, 2007

Dead of winter

February 10, SPACE Gallery
The theme of the weekend in Portland’s nightlife was “Fire and Ice.”
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | February 14, 2007

Slow grow

The steady triumph of Grizzly Bear
The great-great-great grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson rocks out. Grizzly Bear, "On a Neck, On a Spit" (mp3)
By WILL SPITZ | January 30, 2007

Covering all the bases

Anais Mitchell and Mike Merenda, Club Passim, January 5, 2007
Anais Mitchell took the Club Passim stage with hair freshly cut at Cambridge’s Judy Jetson salon and polled the crowd as to whether it was okay to switch hairdressers within the same establishment.
By JEFF BREEZE | January 30, 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