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Revving up Boston

By Daily Free Press Admin December 11, 2008

Legendary Brooklyn experimental rock set Mercury Rev took to the stage of the Paradise on Friday night before a crowd as equally diverse in age as it was in energy. Luckily, to balance it out, the band played only one song. Or so it seemed, at least.

Pandas, guerillas and dubs, oh my!

By Daily Free Press Admin December 11, 2008

There's reggae, there's dub, there's roots music, and then there's the undeniable energy that is Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad. The six-piece band, from Rochester, N.Y., graced the stage of The Middle East Upstairs on Sunday night.

With Circus, Britney is back in the ring

By Daily Free Press Admin December 4, 2008

Tuesday marked the release of Britney Spears'' highly anticipated seventh album, Circus.' The album, a follow up to the hugely successful 2007 album Blackout, has Spears collaborating with producers Max Martin, Danja, Bloodshy & Avant and Rodney 'Darkchild' Jerkins, to name a few.

We Are Scientists talk music

By Daily Free Press Admin December 4, 2008

Before their performance at the Orpheum Theatre last Thursday, I got a chance to talk with Keith Murray, lead singer and guitarist of the duo, We Are Scientists, who are on tour with The Whigs and Kings of Leon.

An exotic Tea Leaf

By Daily Free Press Admin November 20, 2008

Tea Leaf Green is a band constantly on the move. After playing over 400 shows all across the country in the past three years, rolling into Boston's Paradise Rock Club for a two-night stand this past Wednesday and Thursday must have felt like taking a long vacation from the road.

Urgent punkers

By Daily Free Press Admin November 13, 2008

In a perfect world without the constraints of money and rules set by 'the Man,' Kevin Coffrin and his wily biker gang bros would be lying dead in some club, killed at the hands of murderous stripper zombies.

Bright Eyes is dead

By Daily Free Press Admin November 13, 2008

Conor Oberst and his Mystic Valley Band took to the stage at the Roxy on Nov. 5, playing to a packed house of hipsters-in-training, who awkwardly angled past each other to get inches closer to their indie god.

Swedish superlative

By Daily Free Press Admin October 30, 2008

Swedish pop chanteuse Lykke Li took to the stage of the Paradise Rock Club Thursday night for an electrifying yet far-too brief set.

Big Macs and The Bronx

By Daily Free Press Admin October 23, 2008

'Yeah, I'm that scumbag who drinks Heineken in McDonald's,' laughs The Bronx frontman Matt Caughthran as he whips out a half-empty can of beer from inside his jacket.

Pop Up with Yelle!

By Daily Free Press Admin October 23, 2008

With her plastic neon bracelets and flirty mod minidress, Yelle boasts a fashion sense just as bright and punchy as the beats to her songs.

Here come the girls

By Daily Free Press Admin October 23, 2008

Not since the Spice Girls in the late '90s has a girl band been able to capture the hearts of American audiences quite like the British five-piece.

Walter Meego just wants to nap

By Daily Free Press Admin October 16, 2008

Take some riffs from Nirvana, mix in a dash of Kylie Minogue's glitter and run it through Daft Punk's decks and only then will you have a product that sounds remotely like anything on Walter Meego's debut album, Voyager.

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