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By | January 01, 0001

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

Summer treats

Whether classical, jazz, pop, or folk, 'tis the season to get out and enjoy the music
From Andean to zydeco, pick your flavor and there's a summer music festival ready to serve it up.
By CLEA SIMON | June 18, 2010

Bonnaroo 2010 (Saturday): [Photos] The Avett Brothers, Clutch, Norah Jones, and more

Live from Bonnaroo 2010 | June 12, 2010
The Avett Brothers, Clutch, Norah Jones, Dawes, and Elmwood, live at Bonnaroo 2010
By GARY GURTCHEFF | June 14, 2010

Bonnaroo 2010 (Sunday): [Photos] Japandroids, Miranda Lambert, Kris Kristofferson, Blues Traveler, and more

Live from Bonnaroo 2010 | June 13, 2010
Japandroids, Miranda Lambert, Kris Kristofferson, Blues Traveler and more, live at Bonnaroo, June 13, 2010
By GARY GURTCHEFF | June 14, 2010

Photos: Crowd shots from Bonnaroo 2010

Bonnaroo 2010 | June 10-13, 2010
Attendees at Bonnaroo 2010 enjoy the bands, booths, and body paint
By GARY GURTCHEFF | June 15, 2010

Rockport rules

A new beginning for the music festival
Pianist David Deveau, celebrating his 15th year as director of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival (now Rockport Music) and the opening of the elegant, $20 million Shalin Liu Performance Center on Main Street, said that the sound in the new hall, at the rehearsal he'd heard that afternoon of the original chamber version of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll , had moved him to tears.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | June 15, 2010

Bonnaroo 2010 (Thursday + Friday): [Photos] Manchester Orchestra, Entrance Band, Young Veins, and Big Sam's Funky Nation

Live from Bonnaroo 2010 | June 10-11, 2010
Manchester Orchestra, Entrance Band, Young Veins, and Big Sam's Funky Nation, live at Bonnaroo 2010
By GARY GURTCHEFF | June 14, 2010

The Big Hurt: Shill crazy

The week in corporate sponsorships
You know, I might stop following real music journalism altogether. Press releases are so much better. Just when I start thinking it’s a slow week in silly pop news, I check the PR wire — a/k/a the bottom of the barrel — and dig up two of the greatest items I’ve ever seen .
By DAVID THORPE | May 21, 2010

Amazing grace

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival carries on
The morning after I get back from the 41st annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, an oil executive is on the radio: “We’re throwing everything we have at it.” Meaning the exploded BP-leased well in the Gulf of Mexico, 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana.
By JON GARELICK | May 04, 2010

Review: Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI

“Jerusalem: The City of the Two Peaces,” live At Sanders Theatre, May 5, 2010
"You are here to kneel/Where prayer has been valid.” “Here” for T.S. Eliot was a church in Huntingdonshire, but it’s hard to imagine a place where prayer has been more valid than Jerusalem, or a place where more people have died for their faith.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 06, 2010

Prog wild

The controlled chaos of Bear in Heaven
Let me just assure you, right off, that after this, I promise never, ever, to talk to you about this year’s SXSW again, but check it out: we passed by a tossed-up tent-and-chain-link venue with a long line jutting into the street, and from between the portajohns came one of the lowest frequencies I’d ever heard — you could hear their plastic locks rattle and feel it on the surface of your shirt.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 31, 2010

Looking for a reason to head to Belfast?

Sibilance
April 24 might be a good bet
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | March 31, 2010

SXSW 2010 (Friday): [Photos] Hole at Stubb's

Hole at SPIN Magazine's party, March 19, 2010
Photos of Hole performing at Stubb's Bar-B-Q for SPIN Magazine's SXSW party on March 19, 2010
By KELLY DAVIDSON | March 22, 2010

SXSW 2010 (Saturday): [Photos] Sleigh Bells and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony

At Levis Fader Fort on March 20, 2010
Photos of Sleigh Bells and Bone Thugs-and-Harmony, live at SXSW 2010, March 20, 2010
By P. NICK CURRAN | March 22, 2010

SXSW 2010 (Friday): [Photos] Thee Oh Sees, Bear In Heaven, Bowerbirds

With Explode Into Colors and Quasi, March 19. 2010
Photos of Thee Oh Sees, Bear In Heaven, Bowerbirds, Explode Into Colors, Quasi at SXSW 2010
By P. NICK CURRAN | March 22, 2010

SXSW 2010 (Saturday): [Photos] Around Austin

The Phoenix team hits the streets at SXSW 2010
Candid shots from the streets of Austin, March 20, 2010
By KELLY DAVIDSON | March 22, 2010

SXSW 2010 (Saturday): [Photos]: Hey Champs, Bad Rabbits, Karen Elson

With Dead Confederate and Carsick Cars
Photos of Hey Champs, Bad Rabbits, Karen Elson, Dead Confederate, and Carsick Cars at SXSW 2010
By KELLY DAVIDSON | March 22, 2010

SXSW 2010 (Saturday): [Photos] J Mascis, Exene Cervenka, and Fucked Up

Live at SXSW 2010 on March 20, 2010
Photos of J Mascis, Exene Cervenka, and Fucked Up, live at SXSW 2010
By KELLY DAVIDSON | March 22, 2010

SXSW 2010 (Friday): [Photos] Le Loup and Beach Fossils

Live at Lovejoys on March 19, 2010
Photos of Le Loup and Beach Fossils at Lovejoys during SXSW 2010, March 19, 2010
By P. NICK CURRAN | March 22, 2010

SXSW 2010: [Photos] Austin by cameraphone

A candid view of what lies behind the music at South by Southwest
Photos collages exploring what lies beneath the music at SXSW 2010
By K BONAMI | March 24, 2010

SXSW 2010 (Friday): [Photos] Casevettes, Classixx, Solid Gold

Plus Ann Driscoll on March 19, 2010
Photos of Casevettes, Classixx, Solid Gold, with Ann Driscoll
By KELLY DAVIDSON | March 23, 2010

SXSW 2010: [Photos] 'Stache by 'Stache West

In pursuit of the hirsute at SXSW 2010
Photos of the great moustaches of SXSW 2010.
By K BONAMI | March 23, 2010

By | January 01, 0001

SXSW 2010: The band who wasn't there

Beach Fossils, Tanlines, Best Coast, and a wave of minimalism at SXSW
This past Saturday around noon, about a dozen of us were cracking our first Lone Stars of the day at Peckerheads, one of scores of dimly daylit venues lining Austin’s teeming Sixth Street.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 24, 2010