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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

Review: Public Image Ltd. at Royale

PiL, live at Royale, May 7, 2010
Terrifying, ridiculous, glorious
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | May 14, 2010

Photos: Public Image Ltd at Royale

PiL, featuring Johnny Rotten, at Royale | May 5, 2010
PiL at Royale, courtesy of The Bowery Presents
By DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | May 17, 2010

The Big Hurt: Attention whoring and headline parsing

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

Blank slates splattered with neon

Santigold, Amanda Blank at the House of Blues
I’m not sure what kind of set list Santigold brought, but I’m guessing that she scrapped it after the crowd remained limp three tracks in.
By CHRIS FARAONE | June 03, 2009

Interview: Greil Marcus

Rock's critic-in-chief talks rock and roll photography
Greil Marcus on rock-and-roll photography
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | January 21, 2009

Scenes 4 tweens

Troy, Gabriella, and the HSM2 crew put the music in them. Now our two quasi-theater critics are trying to get it out.
When I was a teenager, all I ever longed for was to live in a world where it was socially acceptable, nay, a social requirement , to frequently burst into song.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN AND CHRIS FARAONE | January 07, 2009

Interview: The Damned's Captain Sensible

The Damned carry on
"School teachers and lawyers come along to see the Damned. . .and they want to see really bad behavior."
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 03, 2009

Post-masters

47 releases in, Wire can still get it up
In the annals of rock-and-roll-origin stories, Colin Newman, singer/guitarist for the pinned-down cynical conceptualist rock band Wire, has one of the odder ones.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | October 02, 2008

Harold Wells made up this headline, too

Letters to the Boston editor, September 26, 2008
Letters to the Boston editor, September 26, 2008
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 24, 2008

Sex on wheels

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult just never get old
Subcultures all need their touchstones: entities that over time assume the stature of full-fledged institutions.
By BARRY THOMPSON | September 16, 2008

The Big Hurt: Confessions of a band namer

The music industry’s best-kept secret speaks out
Maybe you’ve never heard the name Harold Wells, but it’s a safe bet that you’re a fan of his handiwork.
By DAVID THORPE | September 02, 2008

Interview: Shane West

Too late to stop
The actor discusses the Germs . . . and ER.
By JIM SULLIVAN | August 19, 2008

Three in one (more)

New from Marie Moreshead, Adam Kurtz, and Hotel Arrival
Last week, we previewed the releases of three discs. This week, we offer three discs that came out this summer, but didn’t hit my desk till recently.
By SAM PFEIFLE | August 13, 2008

Coverings

Jeffrey Lewis’s Crass, and Dirty Projectors’ Black Flag
If the title teen of Juno can dismiss Sonic Youth as “just noise,” what would a representative of a generation for whom quiet is the new loud make of the even harsher sonic barrages of first-wave punk?
By FRANKLIN BRUNO | March 10, 2008

Unauthorized!

Axl Rose, Albert Goldman, and the renegade art of rock biography
I think it may have been sometime in the 1970s that the term “unauthorized” became sort of cool.
By JAMES PARKER | May 26, 2009

Repackaged treasures

The ongoing survival of the box set
Repackaging music in box-set format and in newer, more-deluxe versions is a marketing ploy that’s been around at least since the dawn of the CD age.
By MATT ASHARE | December 11, 2007

Temple talk

Julien on Joe
Julien Temple was one of the first filmmakers on the scene when punk erupted in the UK.
By MATT ASHARE | November 08, 2007

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Well-done revelations
Temple captures the chaos of Strummer’s early years, with overlays of interviews with him and footage from the era.
By MATT ASHARE | November 07, 2007

Double visionary

The two sides of Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer was the embodiment of punk, up till his final day, December 22, 2002.
By MATT ASHARE | November 06, 2007

Chronicle of a death foretold

Joy Division were rooted in grim finality. Now, through a series of new books, CDs, and films, the band has found new life.
What a difference a death makes.
By JAMES PARKER | October 24, 2007

Disc by disc

The new Joy Division catalogue
The new Joy Division catalogue
By MATT ASHARE | October 24, 2007

Snakes and pilgrims

From venom to the Otherside Café
There’s something classic about a pretty blonde girl in a bikini with a boa constrictor wrapped around her neck.
By JIM SULLIVAN | October 08, 2007

Punks find their inner Americana

The altered aesthetic of punks playing folk
Punk might have been swept along, cleaned up, dirtied again, then separated into a million different subgenres created to simplify things when really it only complicated everything.
By JON MEYER | August 31, 2007