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Wolf Parade on July 11 at Port City Music Hall

Music Seen
In concert, Wolf Parade operate in a mode that is or ought to be the Platonic ideal for a rock show: their live renditions of studio tracks are simultaneously faithful, timed to metronomic precision, and — when the occasion calls for it — beautifully unhinged.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | July 14, 2010

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Wolf Parade | Expo 86

Sub Pop (2010)
Wolf Parade kick-start their third album by getting right into rambling poetics.
By REYAN ALI | July 01, 2010

Ready, set, howl!

Lunar Laps
From the people who brought you the Woolly Fair, the city's furriest art festival, a bit of hairy exercise this past weekend.
By ABIGAIL CROCKER | October 07, 2009

Sunset Rubdown | Dragonslayer

Jagjaguwar (2009)
Sunset Rubdown's 2007 release, Random Spirit Lover , is an underappreciated tour de force , a sprawling indie-rock epic imbued with a spirit of anarchic glee. Their third album is as ambitious as its predecessors but mutes the joy in favor of a more serious tone and tighter focus.
By RYAN STEWART | June 15, 2009

2008 Listravaganza!

An absolute glut of cruelly reductive Top 10 lists from our dedicated staff of tirelessly enthusiastic writers
We are not at all sick of bands with animal names yet and seem to have a soft spot for Erykah Badu that we kept very hush about all year.
By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 31, 2008

The call of the wild

Wolf Parade get instinctual
It’s not easy being in a band whose two primary songwriters have quite different ideas about how to write an indie-rock song.
By BEN WESTHOFF | July 28, 2008

Variety pack

A compendium of Wolf Parade side projects
A compendium of Wolf Parade side projects
By BEN WESTHOFF | July 28, 2008

Wolf Parade

At Mount Zoomer | Sub Pop
At Mount Zoomer will give you those same goosebumps you felt when you heard the band’s debut.
By BEN WESTHOFF | June 24, 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

Cult Maze

Music seen at Geno’s + SPACE Gallery, April 4 + April 6, 2008
Early on in Cult Maze’s all-too-brief tenure as Portland’s best indie-rock band — probably when they were still called The Funeral — I offered to buy Joshua Loring a beer before his set.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | April 09, 2008

Live and kicking

Live reviews: 2007 in review
Yes, we suffer from an embarrassment of riches when it come to live music here in the Boston area.
By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 17, 2007

Modest Mouse, buzzing bees

The Download Festival, Tweeter Center, August 18, 2007
“I think this festival is sponsored by large, stinging insects . . . made by Volkswagen,” quipped Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell.
By MIKE MILIARD | August 20, 2007

Download festival?

How about the Tweeter Center line-up instead
It’s a pretty cool line-up of “indie” stars, indie almost-stars, college-rock faves, and local heroes.
By WILL SPITZ | August 14, 2007

Handsome Furs

Plague Park | Sub Pop
Playing Bruce Springsteen to Spencer Krug’s David Bowie, Dan Boeckner came across as the humble workhorse of Wolf Parade. "What We Had," Handsome Furs (mp3)
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | May 21, 2007

Off the record: Week of May 11, 2007

The National, Battles, Handsome Furs, and Deerhunter
The Battles album Mirrored plays like an impossibly taut hipster remix of an air strike from Star Wars .
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | May 09, 2007

Sunset Rubdown

Shut Up I Am Dreaming | Absolutely Kosher
Shut Up is unabashed and far-reaching, a thousand parts sweated down to four players and one harrowing Robert Smith karaoke voice, occasionally too synth-proggy but always high stakes.
By NICK SYLVESTER | May 08, 2006

Holy F#@%!

A classical aesthete checks out Wolf Parade. And their vulgar opening band, too.
ThePhoenix.com’s Pulitzer-winning classical music columnist told us he was going to see Wolf Parade. We said, “You better get us a camera-phone photo.”
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | April 08, 2006

Wish list

106 things the Phoenix wants to see in 2006
[1] An MBTA Red Line station without a broken escalator. [2] Someone in the White House who at least pretends we’re still looking for Osama.
By | October 27, 2008