Steve Smith
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Steve Flato – Road to Ruins (Abrash) The Grey Eminence by Warfather Warfather – The Grey Eminence (Greyhaze) King Crimson – "Easy Money," "Suitable Grounds for the Blues," "Sailors Tale," "Starless," "Level Five" – 2016 European Tour downloads (DGMLive) Pearl Jam – Fenway Park, Boston, MA, Aug. 5, 2016 (Pearl Jam) Joda Clément – Sea…
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Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you on each cornerMeet you on each street. Watch for daily…
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Eve by Thalia Zedek Band Thalia Zedek Band – Eve (Thrill Jockey) Come – 11:11 (Matador) Uzi – Sleep Asylum (Homestead) Dangerous Birds – "Alpha Romeo"/"Smile on Your Face" (Propeller Product) Live Skull – Dusted (Homestead) Live Skull – Snuffer (Caroline) E – E (Thrill Jockey; due Nov. 11) WREKMEISTER HARMONIES Live In NYC by…
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Steven Tyler, by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP The ticket: Pop musicSunday, Aug. 28, 2016 XENIA RUBINOS This dependably vital, consistently inventive singer and rapper continues to twist her Afro-Caribbean cultural and musical roots into unexpected and instantly appealing new branches, the likes of which can be heard on her powerful new album, “Black Cat.” Aug. 31, 9 p.m.…
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Bent Knee, by Ben Stas for the Boston Globe The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, Aug. 25, 2016 BLACK SABBATH They say this is our last chance to see three-quarters of the quintessential English heavy-metal band, and you get the sense they’re telling the truth this time. The set list offers no surprises, but think…
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Michael Daugherty – Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle – Zuill Bailey, Paul Jacobs, Nashville Symphony/Giancarlo Guerrero (Naxos) Morton Subotnick – Music for the Double Life of Amphibians (Wergo)> Axolotl – Joel Krosnick; Ascent Into Air – CalArts Twentieth Century Players/Stephen L. Mosko; The Last Dream of the Beast – Joan La…
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John Adams – Scheherazade.2 – Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/David Robertson (Nonesuch; due Sept. 30) Kiss – Kiss Rocks Vegas (Eagle Rock) Marillion – F.E.A.R. (F**k Everyone and Run) (earMUSIC; due Sept. 23) No Place Fast by Wayne Horvitz Wayne Horvitz – No Place Fast (Theatre for Your Mother) The Bad Plus – It's…
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Black Sabbath The ticket: Pop musicSunday, Aug. 21, 2016 BLACK SABBATH They say this is our last chance to see three-quarters of the quintessential English heavy-metal band, and you get the sense they’re telling the truth this time. The set list offers no surprises, but think of this as paying your last respects. Aug. 25,…
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Zac Brown Band, by Josh Reynolds for the Boston Globe The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, Aug. 18, 2016 ZAC BROWN BAND Though their flag is nominally planted in the country-music world, Brown and his Atlanta cohorts are seasoned hands at reaching across the aisles to invite poptimists, jam-bandsters, and rockers into their party. Saturday’s…
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Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman Santana – "The Star-Spangled Banner" (YouTube) Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 3 in F – Houston Symphony/Leopold Stokowski (Everest) Herbie Hancock/Wayne Shorter – 1+1 (Verve) Marcus Miller – Tutu Revisited – Live at Leverkusen 2009 (YouTube) Carlos Santana/John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender (Columbia) Miles Davis – We Want Miles…
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X The ticket: Pop musicSunday, Aug. 14, 2016 X Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebrake: Now and always, this simply is one of the very best bands that American music has ever produced, punk or otherwise. The group’s latest trek — “Re-Zoomed,” so called because of guitarist Billy’s recovery from a cancer…
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With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. – T.S. Eliot, from "Little Gidding" (Four Quartets)
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EPMD, by Simon Abrams The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, Aug. 11, 2016 EPMD The influential hip-hop duo of Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith is back in business again, celebrating its 30th anniversary with a road trip focused on its classic 1988 debut LP, “Strictly Business.” Aug. 13, 8 p.m. $25, advance $22. Middle East,…
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Keith Rowe/Günter Müller/Taku Sugimoto – The World Turned Upside Down (Erstwhile) dogs in english porcelain by vanessa rossetto Vanessa Rossetto – dogs in english porcelain (Music Appreciation) mineral orange by vanessa rossetto Vanessa Rossetto – Mineral Orange (Kye) exotic exit by vanessa rossetto Vanessa Rossetto – Exotic Exit (Kye) "Adult Contemporary" C-40 (NRR30) by Vanessa…
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Yes – Millersville University, Millersville, PA, Feb. 28, 1984 (audience recording, unknown origin) Yes – Celeste Center, Ohio State Fair, Columbus, OH, July 27, 2016 (audience recording, unknown origin) Yes – Boston Garden, Boston, MA, Sept. 9, 1980 (audience recording, unknown origin) Yes – Pensacola Civic Center, Pensacola, FL, April 9, 1991 (audience recording, unknown…
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Drake, by Scott Legato/FilmMagic The ticket: Pop & rockSunday, Aug. 7, 2016 THE GO-GO’S The band fondly tagged during its heyday as “America’s sweethearts” is calling this a farewell tour — which doesn’t mean you’ll never see the group again, but does suggest chances will be few and far between. Aug. 8, 7 p.m. $35-$45.…
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Pearl Jam, by Chad Batka/The New York Times The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, Aug. 4, 2016 PEARL JAM Big hits, deep cuts, surprise guests (Cheap Trick! Sting! Jack White!) — no wonder the current trek by this seasoned Seattle group has been acclaimed far and wide as one of the year’s top tours. Officially…
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Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine (Epic) Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam) Opeth – Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner) Jane Ira Bloom – Early Americans (Outline) Yes – Yessongs (Atlantic) An Air Swept Clean of All Distance by Rhodri Davies Rhodri Davies – An…
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Bryan Ferry, by Zak Hussein/Getty Images The ticket: Pop musicSunday, July 31, 2016 BRYAN FERRY The suave English gentleman vocalist is touring with a crack band that includes longtime guitar associate Neil Hubbard, and playing a set list that ranges from the first Roxy Music album to his latest solo LP, 2014’s “Avonmore” along with…
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Dead & Company – Fenway Park, Boston, MA, July 15, 2016 (Archive.org) La Barranca – Fatalis (Fonarte Latino) Steven Wilson – Insurgentes (Kscope) Opeth – Sorceress (Moderbolget/Nuclear Blast; due Sept. 30) Orchid by Opeth Opeth – Orchid (Candlelight) Artificial Organ by Kevin Drumm Kevin Drumm – Artificial Organ (Bandcamp) Kevin Drumm – Artificial Organ (WHAT??…
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