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Cedric Bixler-Zavala of At the Drive-In, by Matt Roberts/Getty Images The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, June 16, 2016 JAM’N 94.5 SUMMER JAM + KISS 108 CONCERT These popular smorgasbords offer a range of current hitmakers catering to diverse tastes. Fetty Wap, Ty Dolla Sign, and Kevin Gates are among the big names at Summer…
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Dixie Chicks, by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images The ticket: Pop musicSunday, June 12, 2016 DIXIE CHICKS It’s been 13 years since this chart-topping country-crossover trio landed in hot water for giving President Bush the stink eye on stage, and to judge by reports of a defaced Donald Trump banner in use during the group’s first North…
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Mason Bates – Anthology of Fantastic Zoology – Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Riccardo Muti (CSO Resound) Stories for Ocean Shells by Kate Moore & Ashley Bathgate Kate Moore – Stories for Ocean Shells – Ashley Bathgate (Cantaloupe Music)> Whoever You Are Come Forth; Stories for Ocean Shells; Velvet; Dolorosa; Homage to My Boots; Broken Rosary the national…
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Mashrou'Leila The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, June 9, 2016 MASHROU’LEILA Having established itself as an art-rock septet, this popular, controversial Lebanese band took a sharp turn on its fourth LP, “Ibn el Leil,” fashioning an artful strain of dance pop as engrossing as it is propulsive. June 9, 7 p.m. $40, advance $30. Middle…
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AMM – Église Saint-Merri, Paris, France, April 7, 2016 (YouTube) AMM – Laminal (Matchless) AMM III – It Had Been an Ordinary Enough Day in Pueblo, Colorado (JAPO) AMM – The Inexhaustible Document (Matchless) AMM – The Nameless Uncarved Block (Matchless) Parker Millsap – The Very Last Day (Okrahoma) Elvis Presley – For LP Fans…
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Alban Berg – Violin Concerto – Louis Krasner, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Fritz Busch; Arnold Schoenberg – Concerto for Violin – West German Radio Orchestra/Dmitri Mitropoulos (GM Recordings) Robert Fripp – The Music Box, Paris, France, May 25, 1979 (DGMLive) Peter Baumann – Machines of Desire (Bureau B) Adam and the Ants – Kings of the Wild…
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King Woman, by M.J. Bernier The ticket: Pop musicSunday, June 5, 2016 WAX IDOLS + KING WOMAN Two of the most consistently fascinating acts operating at the cusp of shoegaze, metal, industrial, and goth, each fronted by an intense, darkly magnetic vocalist: Hether Fortune (formerly of White Lung) with Wax Idols, Kristina Esfandiari with King…
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Venom Inc. The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, June 2, 2016 BEYONCÉ We’d barely stopped vibrating from Queen Bey’s stark, enigmatic “Formation” when she rocked the world with her new video album. When life gives you “Lemonade,” you jump in the car and make tracks for the stadium. June 3, 7:30 p.m. $50-$310. Gillette Stadium,…
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Braids The ticket: Pop musicSunday, May 29, 2016 BRAIDS There likely was no song issued in 2015 that was more intimate or painful than “Miniskirt,” an unflinching account of abuse, resilience, and healing on “Deep in the Iris,” the third LP from a Canadian trio best known for dizzy, dreamy electropop. The story continues with…
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Brian Church and Aliana de la Guardia in 'Beowulf,' by Liz Linder Photography "In Hannah Lash's 'Beowulf,' an unconventional monster to grapple"Boston Globe, May 22, 2016 My review of Beowulf, the melancholy, moving new 80-minute chamber opera by composer Hannah Lash, presented by Guerilla Opera in its world premiere last Friday, ran in Sunday's Globe.…
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Middle Of Nothing by Kevin Drumm Kevin Drumm – Middle of Nothing (Hospital Productions) Irradiate by Kevin Drumm Kevin Drumm – Irradiate (Bandcamp) Francis Poulenc – Works for Piano Solo and Duo – Lucille Chung, Alessio Bax (Signum)> 15 Improvisations; 3 Novelettes; Sonata for Four Hands; Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos Sergei Rachmaninoff…
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Rhys Chatham, by Roland Owsnitzki The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, May 26, 2016 RHYS CHATHAM The 2nd SHIFT Music Series welcomes the punk-minimalist visionary, an auteur of symphonies for armies of electric guitars. Paradoxically, in his first local appearance since 2007 he’ll play enhanced solo-guitar music of the sort found on his entrancing new…
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Bent Knee – Say So (Cuneiform) Christopher Rouse – Odna Zhizn; Symphony No. 3; Symphony No. 4; Prospero's Rooms – New York Philharmonic/Alan Gilbert (Dacapo) Hilda Paredes – Señales (Mode Records)> Señales (“Homenaje a Jonathan Harvey”) – Irvine Arditti, Ensemble Signal/Brad Lubman; Páramo de voces – Alberto Rosado; Homenaje a Remedios Varo – ensemble recherche;…
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Four Tet The ticket: Pop MusicSunday, May 22, 2016 WEAKENED FRIENDS This snappy Portland, Maine, trio came in second place at this year’s Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble, earning a spot in the competition’s not-winners pantheon alongside Mission of Burma, the Lemonheads, and Morphine. An addictive new EP, “95,” arrives in July, but is worth celebrating…
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Bent Knee, by Chris Anderson Say So by Bent Knee My brief review of Say So, the much-anticipated third album by Boston prog-rock-only-not-like-that sextet Bent Knee, is live on the Globe website and out in print today, too. The band already put on its record-release concert last night in Somerville; keep an eye out, because…
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Weakened Friends The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, May 19, 2016 BENT KNEE “Say So,” the third album from this young Boston art-rock sextet, is due on Friday; one night earlier, the wise, witty, and skillful group heralds the landing of a record that confirms its eloquence and ebullience, while also breaking new stylistic and…
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Mashrou'Leila – Ibn En Leil (Mashrou'Leila) Venom – From the Very Depths (Spinefarm) Martha Argerich – The Legendary 1965 Recording (EMI Classics)> Frederic Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor (Op. 58); 3 Mazurkas (Op. 59); Nocturne in F (Op. 15, No. 1); Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor (Op. 39); Polonaise in…
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The Kills The ticket: Pop musicSunday, May 15, 2016 TOGETHER BOSTON This weeklong festival of technology, art, and music opens with a live set from Floating Points (May 15, 8 p.m. The Sinclair, Cambridge), launching a don’t-miss series that includes the Black Madonna (May 17, 8 p.m. Middlesex Lounge, Cambridge), France Jobin and Tim Feeney…
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Stork Bite by Quiet Evenings Quiet Evenings – Stork Bite (Adversary Electronics) Yeasayer – Amen & Goodbye (Mute) Hawkwind – Quark, Strangeness & Charm (Atomhenge) Belly – King (4AD) Doubt by King Woman King Woman – Doubt (The Flenser) May 1 by Kevin Drumm Kevin Drumm – May 1 (Bandcamp) Paul Simon – Stranger to…
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The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, May 12, 2016 HALLELUJAH THE HILLS Boston’s favorite rocker-litterateurs have a lot to celebrate right now: 10 years of making friends and influencing people; five fine albums, including the newest, “A Band Is Something to Figure Out”; and at last a drummer who’s stuck around for two straight LPs.…
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