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Film Bits: ‘Better Call Saul’ Releases Season Three Viral Marketing; ‘XX’...
‘Better Call Saul’ Viral Marketing is as Chilling as it is Hunger InducingSeason three of Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul won’t premiere until April, but marketing has already begun raising hype...
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Spiral Stairs (Pavement’s Scott Kannberg) Announces New Album ‘Doris and the...
Spiral Stairs (Pavement’s Scott Kannberg) will release his second album under that name, Doris and the Daggers, on March 24 on the Nine Mile label in the US (pre-order here), on Domino in Europe...
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The Wood Brothers Waste No Notes On ‘Live at The Barn’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥It’s hardly a coincidence that this is the third live album The Wood Brothers have released since vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Jano Rix united with siblings Chris and Oliver. In the interim...
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SONG PREMIERE: Far Shores Destroys Winter Drab With Danceable “Electric Heart”
Immaculately produced, precisely arranged, and boldly unashamed of wearing their heart (and influences) on their sleeve, on the Electric Heart EP Far Shores mines the best of 80’s synth-pop, EDM, indie...
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SONG PREMIERE: Matthew Fountain and the Whereabouts Tap Into Eclectic Pop On...
Born on the gulf coast of Mississippi into a family of Dixieland jazz musicians, it came as no surprise to many that Matthew Fountain made his way back to music after an extended absence. After picking...
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Tool, Chance the Rapper, Bon Iver, Sigur Rós, Run the Jewels Lead Boston...
As Boston Calling moves from City Hall Plaza for the first time, The 2o17 festival will take place n at the Harvard Athletic Complex in Allston and the lineup is its strongest yet This year’s event...
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Film Bits: ‘Star Wars’ Lands Woody Harrelson as Han Solo’s Mentor; Peter...
Woody Harrelson Tapped for ‘Han Solo’ Spinoff MovieWith Rogue One in the rearview, proving Disney’s gamble with producing Star Wars films outside the purview of the main story now proven successful,...
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I’m Not Mad, ‘Live By Night’, I’m Disappointed (FILM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥If you squint your eyes and turn your head, you can almost kind of see the movie Ben Affleck wanted to make with Live By Night. Almost, but not quite. All of the elements of a great film are...
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The XX Build Pop Triumph With ‘I See You’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥From the opening measures of I See You, it is clear that London trio The XX have broken their mold. “Dangerous” is a big, layered pop song with a dancehall beat and a “Thriller”-esque bouncing...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers & Trombone Shorty Give New Orleans Voodoo’d Up Funk...
If there is one stop on the Red Hot Chili Peppers new tour you needed to go to it was this past Tuesday night in New Orleans at the Smoothie King Center. Why? Because when they did their encore of...
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The Flaming Lips Space Out Big Time On ‘Oczy Mlody’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥For the last few years the Oklahoma based freak rock outfit The Flaming Lips have been dabbling with pop music history. From their reinterpretation of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to...
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Run The Jewels Kick Off ‘Run The World’ Tour at Philadelphia’s Electric...
Run the Jewels kicked off their “Run the World” Tour at Philly’s Electric Factory 1/17th in front of a sold out revved up crowd. They are touring in support of their critically acclaimed album RTJ3,...
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Infamous Stringdusters Tap Tradition & Modern Flair On ‘Laws of Gravity’...
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Coming on the heels of a pair of musical detours – Undercover, a set of songs that found them re-imaging some of their favorite cover tunes, and last year’s Ladies & Gentlemen, an album...
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Tommy Stinson Reignites Bash & Pop Following GNR & Replacements (INTERVIEW)
For Tommy Stinson, there were two things that were very important to him when he went to record his next record: for it to be recorded live as much as possible, in the studio with the musicians...
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Steely Dan Plans Venetian/Vegas “Rolling in the Chips” Residency
Steely Dan’s Beaon Theater residencies have become nights of themes and albums played in their entirety and now the residency shifts to the west coas. In 2017, Steely Dan founders Donald Fagen and...
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So, About That First Episode Of ‘The Young Pope’ (TV REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥After months of speculation about whether or not we were supposed to take a show called The Young Pope seriously, the first episode premiered on HBO last night, and it didn’t answer this...
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Dinosaur Jr., Drive-By Truckers, Deer Tick Top 2017 Pickathon Lineup
Celebrated as the best independent event for musical and artistic discovery, Pickathon is delighted to announce its diverse lineup for 2017. Taking place August 3–6, 2017 at Pendarvis Farm, the 19th...
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Reed Mathis & Electric Beethoven Performing Series of “Resonance Field Tests”
Reed Mathis & Electric Beethoven have announced a surprise limited-run East Coast tour, which will see them performing a series of “Resonance Field Tests.” The idea behind the “tests” (presented...
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Run The Jewels Up The Ante With ‘Run The Jewels 3′ (ALBUM REVIEW
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥In 2014 the duo of Killer Mike and El-P put out RTJ2, the second album of their Run the Jewels partnership and quickly jumped to success and national critical acclaim. Now on their third...
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SONG PREMIERE: Brett Newski Shares Acoustic Indie Pop “Everybody Knows You...
Wisconsin artist Brett Newski was once signed to a major label, but he felt he could handle things better on his own and eventually decided to pursue music on his own terms. As an independent artist,...
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