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by Liza Weisstuch |
December 15, 2008
Marissa Nadler sings her dark, mysterious lyrics in a hazy soprano that would appeal as much to a Medieval sailor navigating the ocean by moonlight as to the cabaretgoers of Belle Époque Paris. The local guitar picking chanteuse, who regularly draws...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
December 11, 2008
Few are the artists whose songs have escaped the interpretive clutches of Bettye LaVette — and that’s a good thing! She’s infused the lyrics of Fiona Apple, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Elton John, and Sinead O’Connor with the gritty exhilaration...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
December 11, 2008
Glasvegas was just your average rough-edged art punk band that takes its cues as much from Elvis and Dion and the Belmonts as they do from rockabilly and the shoegaze style that their fellow countrymen, the Jesus and Mary Chain, made popular. Then British...
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by Erin Souza |
December 02, 2008
Folk-rock Brit band Noah and the Whale ’s single “Five Years Time” may have been featured in a Saturn commercial, but we won’t hold that against them. The four-man-band’s first album, Peaceful , the World Lays Me Down , was released this summer and has...
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by Erin Souza |
December 02, 2008
We first developed a musical crush on John Legend when Lauryn Hill featured his piano skills on her hit track, “Everything is Everything.” We fell even harder when his soulful, piano-driven album Get Lifted dropped in 2003, and again when he performed...
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by Erin Souza |
December 02, 2008
Some of you might know them from their hard-not-to-love cover of “I Want You to Want Me” from the ’90s ’tween flick 10 Things I Hate About You . But for far many others, Letters to Cleo is a band that represents a time in the Boston music scene when indie...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
November 14, 2008
The French electronic performer M83 (once a duo, now Anthony Gonzalez on his own) is one of those musicians best enjoyed in a solitary mode, and preferably through a good set of headphones. But when he comes to town, we don’t mind sharing. His layered...
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by Erin Souza |
November 14, 2008
For too long, underground dance music has been relegated to tiny spots that are practically as under the radar as the beats themselves. But the crowds that come out to join the parties aren’t nearly as small as the spaces they pile into. So local DJs...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
November 14, 2008
Sondre Lerche counts A-Ha, the Beach Boys, Elvis Costello, and Cole Porter as his influences. That might explain why the Norwegian troubadour became such a hit among American indie-rock devotees when he released his first album in 2002 at the tender age...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
November 14, 2008
Before indie and electronic music fans turned to Pitchfork or their favorite blog for their daily soundwave fix — heck, before anyone knew what a blog was — there was brainwashed.com , an online haven for music geeks. Founder Jon Whitney mounted the first...
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