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Geoff Mullen plugs in; Lord & Karlheinz freak out
After a brief stint in Pittsburgh, guitarist and electronic musician GEOFF MULLEN is back in his native Rhode Island, and the New England music scene is so much the better for it.
The Necks at the ICA; Weirdo Records opens up
Australia's the NECKS are the sort of band who thwart classification.
Free jazz at 186; Grizzler at Axiom
Local saxophonist and electronic-musician JORRIT DIJKSTRA combines a variety of styles ranging from jazz to electro-acoustic improv and noise to create his own emotive and often idiosyncratic music.
No Triangle, Subliminal Sessions, and the New Music Festival
There are so many interesting and unusual musical happenings this week, it's almost more than this little column can bear.
Louder than bombs
Although composer JOHN CAGE is best known for 4'33" of silence, he could raise a ruckus when the mood struck.
Martyn at Good Life; Infinity Window at Butcher Shoppe
Although he lives in suburban DC — a few thousand miles and an ocean away from dubstep ground zero in London — producer Martijn Deykers (a/k/a MARTYN) was one of the genre's pivotal figures of 2008.
Rock bands, throat singer, and a partridge in a pear tree
There's not a whole lot of Yuletide-themed activity on Boston's musical fringes this year, and that makes the holiday rock show at the Milky Way this Sunday all the more welcome.
The undr quartet at Open Sound; Student finals at Beat Research
The undr quartet at Open Sound; Student finals at Beat Research
The New England Phonographers Union; STU + 8GB
The New England Phonographers Union; STU + 8GB
The first annual Smash Palace
The first annual Smash Palace
The triumphant second coming of Brainwaves
Before there was Pitchfork, Stereogum, Popmatters, or almost any other music site you can think of, there was Brainwashed.
Odd Couple at the Speaker Project; Ouest at Open Sound
With the three-day Brainwaves festival in town, you'd think there'd be little room for anything else this week.
Edgy gigs likely to be booked solid
Edgy gigs likely to be booked solid
Headhunter and Kid Blue so dope it’s scary
Headhunter and Kid Blue so dope it’s scary
Kevin Frenette and Ricardo Donoso sound off
Kevin Frenette’s playing is warm yet cerebral, and his music lies in the middleground between avant jazz and free improvisation.
Chocolate Monk at P.A.’s, Preliminary Saturation at the Piano Factory
Chocolate Monk at P.A.’s, Preliminary Saturation at the Piano Factory
A week of deconstruction, dubstep, and drones
A week of deconstruction, dubstep, and drones
Exclamation Point! diversifies its portfolio
The Exclamation Point! series started as an informal gathering of local poets, writers and theater folks, but this Saturday its organizers, the Fort Point Theatre Project, have broadened their scope and gone seriously eclectic.
Sonorous studies at Oxfam
The shows that Tufts University’s Oxfam Café has hosted over the past year-plus are not your typical sweat-drenched college rock shows.
Excited strings, Swiss sound art and utter mayhem
Sometimes even when your cup runneth over, life still isn’t fair.
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