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Porcelain Raft eases out of the shadows

Calming effect
Although Porcelain Raft released their debut full-length, Strange Weekend (Secretly Canadian), earlier this year, the project's mastermind, Mauro Remiddi, is no novice.

By: ANNIE ZALESKI | May 22, 2012

Total Bummer Fest and the quest for a local scene

The coolest summer camp ever
In the corner of an enormous warehouse in the Winter Park neighborhood of Orlando, Florida, 40 or so kids are sitting on the floor in a semicircle, cross-legged.

By: LIZ PELLY | May 18, 2012

Bon Mots

A little salt of the earth with a whole lot of sexy
During a late-night car ride, three friends from Boulder, Colorado, began regaling each other with stories, as people trapped in a car for hours are wont to do.

By: CASSANDRA LANDRY | May 17, 2012

The Florida rapper shows her Pryde

Hello Kitty
Kitty Pryde is a teen rapper from Daytona, Florida.

By: LIZ PELLY | May 16, 2012

BREAKING: 101.7 WFNX is being sold to ClearChannel pending FCC approval

Read the memo sent to the staff at the Boston Phoenix .
"Since 1983 the station has played an historic role in bringing new music to audiences in and around Boston ... "

By: PHOENIX STAFF | May 16, 2012

Razormaze adds focus to their thrash

Sharper image
For a kind-of goofy metal dude, Alex Citrone is pretty serious — especially when he talks metal, and especially when he's talking about his band, Boston shred titans Razormaze.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | May 15, 2012

The punk business plan of Cock Sparrer

Oi! To the World
If you play in, work with, or write about bands, you've doubtlessly listened to dozens of wheeler-and-dealers pitch purportedly clever plans to "make it" in the music biz.

By: BARRY THOMPSON | May 15, 2012

Maps & Atlases stretch out their sounds

Creative canvas
The real joy of listening to Maps & Atlases' music doesn't come from how it sounds but from what it makes you see.

By: REYAN ALI | May 15, 2012

Cut Copy on the Celtics-Sixers series, defeating the Hawks, and the Atlanta media's 'character assassination'

In Green Colours 2
In Green Colours 2

By: MICHAEL MAROTTA | May 15, 2012

Active Child is preaching from the choir

Urban hymns
Since the invention of music, dudes have been harnessing their natural singing talents for one specific purpose: to pick up babes.

By: LUKE O'NEIL | May 08, 2012

The Feelies look back by moving forward

Jersey sure
Legendary New Jersey underground rockers the Feelies have always existed outside genre boundaries.

By: ANNIE ZALESKI | May 08, 2012

Catching up with the world of Dom

American boy
In many respects, the much-ballyhooed demise of the so-called "rock star" is a real thing.

By: BARRY THOMPSON | May 11, 2012

Confronting the Swedish gloom of In Solitude

Cold spell
When I am finally able to get through to the cell phone of In Solitude's tour manager, they have emerged from a massive dust cloud, their metal-mobile finding civilization after a long spell traversing the deserts of Arizona with no idea where they are going.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | May 08, 2012