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Night with grunge gang leaves Hub fans Staind

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:20:00 -0400

Has enough time passed for a grunge renaissance? Apparently so, as a packed Bank of America Pavilion proved Tuesday with an audience that displayed unbridled affection...

Much love for Asher Roth in big-time 'College' town

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:03:16 -0400

An Asher Roth show is the only place you'll find kids thinking about school in summer. Roth's hit single, "I Love College," celebrates the recreational...

Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss to play White House

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:06:02 -0400

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss will play a high-profile gig next week at the White House. A spokeswoman for Paisley said today that he and Krauss, who...

Michael Jackson still king of album charts

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:34:01 -0400

NEW YORK - Fans of Michael Jackson have bought 2.3 million CDs since he died three weeks ago. Grieving fans and those just wanting to hear his music again have snapped...

Actor's son rattles Cage as hard-rocker

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:03:16 -0400

In 1987, actor Nicolas Cage was "Raising Arizona." Three years later, he began raising future underground black-metal singer Weston...

Jordin Sparks out to show she's no flash in the pan

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:31:39 -0400
Jordin Sparks is a little more savvythe second time around. The "American Idol" season-six champ - who opens for the Jonas Brothers at TD Garden Friday and...

King Sunny Ade brings good juju to Hub

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:32:15 -0400
These days, Boston music fans can go out almost any night of the week to hear a band playing music from the Caribbean, Africa, South America or the Middle East. Two or...

DAUGHTRY

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:11:05 -0400
Get ready for a cyclone of cheese - massive, powerful, cliched. For his band's second disc, "American Idol" loser-made-good Chris Daughtry has enlisted an army...

Drake Bell not joshing about commitment to music career

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:44 -0400
Drake Bell knows it might be hard to take a Nickelodeon star seriously. That's OK. He's still setting his musical sights high - like Beatles- and Beach...

Jonas Brothers get closer

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:17:40 -0400
Let the high-pitched hysteria begin. Last year, the Jonas Brothers' Look Me In the Eyes and Burning Up tours blasted eardrums and sent tweens and teens swooning....

Hub orchestra makes classical accessible to all

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:08:08 -0400
If Shakespeare is credited with bringing theater to the masses, then Boston Landmarks Orchestra artistic director Charles Ansbacher wants to be this city's classical...

Luxury, Click Five pitch posh pop at Paradise

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:58:12 -0400
Rock 'n' roll is such a fragmented entity these days, a huge field populated by many subgenres. But lately, power pop's made a comeback, of sorts. Folks...

Barenaked Lady Kevin Hearn wears Thin Buckle well

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:29:21 -0400
Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies is known for good-natured folk-rock and humorous onstage yakking. When BNL keyboardist Kevin Hearn and his offshoot band Thin Buckle take...

LFO sighting

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:11:22 -0400
They're baaaack. On the heels of New Kids on the Block's 2008 return, another Boston boy band has thrown its hat into the reunion ring. The members of...

Berklee music school taps African musicians

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:20:56 -0400
BOSTON - Victor Dogah bobs his head and smiles, quickly getting the hang of the Puerto Rican rhythm written on the whiteboard behind his professor. He and his classmates hit...

JAI UTTAL

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:16:37 -0400
Best known among the yoga-and-mediation set for a popular album of Kirtan chant, the New York-born Uttal cultivates a breezy fusion of pop and Indian music on "Thunder...

IGLU & HARTLY

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:15:53 -0400
This California-based fivesome has received heaps of scorn for its insanely catchy mutation of radio-ready hip-hop and synth-driven classic pop. Think the Backstreet Boys...

UNLADYLIKE

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:15:11 -0400
The latest women to serve as more than eye candy in the rap world hail from East St. Louis, Ill. Though they name-check Salt-N-Pepa in interviews, they're more like an...

P-Town fest on the Rocks?

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:05:26 -0400
More than 150 local bands, seven beachfront venues, five nights, a handful of DJs and one big question: What's the deal with the Provincetown Rocks festival? The...

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:22:18 -0400
"Crate digging," as defined by the online Urban Dictionary, "is a hip-hop term for when one goes to a record store to look for old records to sample."...

BILLY BOY ON POISON

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:21:59 -0400
As Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel told us, there's such a fine line between clever and stupid. Strokes? Clever. Jet? Stupid. Billy Boy on Poison? Well, the new Los Angeles...

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:21:37 -0400
The weirdos from Wales return with another whacked-out blend of swirling psychedelia and '60s-style bubblegum pop. The song titles, of course, are brilliant ("Crazy...

DAVE ALVIN AND THE GUILTY WOMEN

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:21:11 -0400
This is musical proof of Alexander Graham Bell's aphorism "when one doors closes, another opens." Shaken by the death of friend and longtime band mate Chris...

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:20:48 -0400
Charity albums starring the cream of the indie-rock crop are all the rage these days. This stunner has an all-star lineup (The Shins, Ryan Adams, the New Pornographers, Death...

TIM BRANTLEY

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:20:26 -0400
Brantley's big-time debut comes roaring at you like an exploding time capsule of '70s rock and pop, sound-checking such greats as Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen...