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Photos: Rise Against at T. T.'s

October 7, 2008 at T.T. the Bear’s Place (MySpace Secret Show)

By: BRYAN MASTERGEORGE | October 09, 2008

No small feet

Night two of the Baltimore Round Robin
As a mob of scruffy Wham City fans and I mill around MassArt’s Pozen Center last Friday, the air is thick with excitement, as well as some pungent BO.

By: SHAULA CLARK | October 08, 2008

Robert Pollard’s Boston Spaceships at the Paradise, September 30, 2008
It’s refreshing that Pollard isn’t trying to rewrite the two-minute power pop of GbV’s heyday, and his relentless (and hyperprolific) pursuits are admirable.

By: RYAN WALSH | October 08, 2008

Couple of Mavericks

The Dodos at the MFA, October 2, 2008
Whereas Sarah Palin spewed folksy, confused verbiage, the Dodos played endearingly folk-y music for a stuffed Remis Auditorium.

By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 08, 2008

Photos: Ben Folds at the Orpheum

By: JAMIE SPEAR | October 02, 2008

Fiend footage festival

“Feast Of Flesh VII” at the Coolidge
We’ve got a formidable line-up here: Banana Zombie and Housewife Zombie are joined Bike Courier Zombie, and a mangled-shirt-and-tails zombie Cannibal dubs “Dr. Teeth.”

By: SHAULA CLARK | October 01, 2008

Record reviewers

Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr, and Built to Spill at the Orpheum, September 27, 2008
The problem with these “play your most revered album in full” shows that everyone from Public Enemy to Liz Phair is doing lately is that the correct answer is not always a no-brainer.

By: RYAN STEWART | October 01, 2008

Photos: Built To Spill at the Orpheum

Built to Spill at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA, September 27, 2008

By: KELLY DAVIDSON | October 01, 2008

Photos: Weezer at Tsongas Arena

Weezer at Tsongas Arena, Lowell, MA, September 23, 2008

By: CARINA MASTROCOLA | September 24, 2008

Inner children

Boston Society of Spontaneity's MP3-EXP at Columbus Park
It sounded simple enough to participate in the mysterious MP3 Experience, an absurdist flash-mob event organized by the Boston Society of Spontaneity.

By: MEGAN BELL | September 23, 2008

All Tomorrow’s Parties II

Edan at Kutshers Country Resort, Monticello, New York, September 19-21, 2008
At a festival like All Tomorrow’s Parties — a reminder of why so many of us entered the new millennium with tinnitus — an act like Edan might have seemed way out of place.

By: MICHAEL BRODEUR | September 25, 2008

All Tomorrow's Parties: MBV

My Bloody Valentine at Kutshers Country Resort, Monticello, New York, September 19-21, 2008
If you thought that you could handle the band’sjangly rattle and strum, then you had to brace yourself for “You Made Me Realise,” which was interrupted by an excursion into bone-melting NOISE.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | September 23, 2008

Roller-skate skinny

Struggling Chez Vous keeps it on the wheel
Sometime between the advent of rollerblades and the invention of those irksome Heelys, America forgot about roller-skating.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | September 16, 2008

Preserved Jam

Paul Weller at Berklee Performance Center, September 9, 2008
There’s always something great about seeing someone who is (or has been) big in the UK when he comes to Boston.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | September 16, 2008

WFNX Disorientation 2008

Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Anberlin, Alkaline Trio, the Kooks, Flogging Molly at Bank Of America Pavilion, September 14, 2008
A boisterous, oddly diverse crowd of young and old, nerd and chic, shit-faced and sober alike braved the rain at Bank of America Pavilion Saturday night for WFNX Disorientation.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | September 16, 2008