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Defining Britpop and picking the top 100

Drawing the line
We know what you're thinking — you've read this far, and you're ready to throw this rag down in disgust. "Where is Morrissey? Or Stereolab? Or the fucking Cure? What is wrong with you people?"
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | August 17, 2011

Say Hi to I Love Music

A burning Tiger
That photo with the high heels is so good you almost don't need to know anything else about Hi Tiger before taking the plunge with their music.
By SAM PFEIFLE | August 09, 2011

The Big Hurt: Winehouse blows it in the Balkans, Morrissey murders cats

Music news in brief
Some people think music writing is pretty soft compared to being a war correspondent or whatever, but I listened to a Limp Bizkit song and an Evanescence song tonight. That has to be a million times worse than anything that's ever happened in Libya.
By DAVID THORPE | June 29, 2011

The Drums | The Drums

Downtown Records (2010)
The Drums' Jonathan Pierce has it all mixed up — today's fame-seeking musicians are trading in their guitars for keyboards, not their keyboards for guitars.
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | October 12, 2010

The Big Hurt: Sex Pistols perfume

Plus ELO death and Moz racism
I think I’d be a much happier person if I disabused myself of all my quaint expectations about artistic integrity.
By DAVID THORPE | September 14, 2010

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Photos: Morrissey Birthday Tribute at Great Scott

Bands celebrate Morrissey's birthday, May 22, 2010
Bands celebrate Morrissey's birthday at Great Scott on May 22, 2010.
By DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | May 24, 2010

Unhappy birthday

The lines sag heavy and deep for Moz
It seems like only yesterday that I was huddled in the corner of my room, staring listlessly out the window through tear-smeared glasses, absently singing along to “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” and wondering when my life would finally show my heart a modicum of mercy. . . . Oh wait. That was yesterday.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | May 18, 2010

Photos: Most popular slideshows of 2009

Don't blame us. You clicked on them!
Our most popular slideshows from the last year: including Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Dale Bozzio's crazy cat house, and much more.
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 22, 2009

The Big Hurt: Lambert works it, 50 blows it, Moz ends it

The Big Hurt: Music news in brief
ADAM LAMBERT 's spicy AMA performance continues to dominate entertainment headlines, weeks after it first scandalized the nation — but why does America care what a man does with another man in the secluded privacy of the American Music Awards?
By DAVID THORPE | December 09, 2009

Morrissey | Swords

UME Imports (2009)
Morrissey — begrudging patron saint of all that is emotionally desolate and otherwise comfortably bummed — is but a mere mortal, as his recent collapse on stage proves.
By ZETH LUNDY | November 06, 2009

The Big Hurt: Attention whoring and headline parsing

Music news in brief
Slow news week.
By DAVID THORPE | September 15, 2009

Westward ho!

The Phoenix survives Coachella
Forgot those rabid right-wingers with their hateful teabags — Coachella had the range, and the machinery for change, and the spiritual thirst. Oh and Leonard Cohen.
By GUSTAVO TURNER | April 29, 2009

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That's how people grow up

Morrissey, live at House of Blues, March 29, 2009
Morrissey specializes in decadent enlargements of contrary emotions: he's got despair on lock, he's an excellent sculptor of ennui.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 31, 2009

Slideshow: Morrissey at House of Blues

Live at House of Blues, March 29, 2009
Morrissey live at House of Blues, March 29, 2009
By CARINA MASTROCOLA | April 01, 2009

Morrissey | Years of Refusal

Lost Highway (2009)
"Could this be an arm around my waist?" asks Morrissey on the final track of his ninth post-Smiths solo album, adding, "Surely the hand contains a knife."
By ZETH LUNDY | February 09, 2009

The Big Hurt: Cohen back on stage, Dee back in Heaven, Kelly back on the market

Music news in brief
Rascal Flatts are coming out with a sixth album, and I still haven't caught up with the previous five!
By DAVID THORPE | January 20, 2009

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A Wire runs through it

The HBO drama is spot-on in diagnosing newspapers’ woes
Here’s the scenario: Local ownership sells off a mid-market, well-respected and Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper to a huge media conglomerate in a major American city.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | January 23, 2008