Steve Smith
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Horse Lords The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, April 28, 2016 DOPAPOD Last year’s three-night homestand by this charismatic Boston-born jam band ended with a nearly hourlong Pink Floyd cover that twisted through reggae, trance, and disco mutations. Will Dopapod attempt to top that feat? Find out here. April 28-30, 8 p.m. Tickets: $20, advance…
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WHO: Lea BertucciWHAT: Axis/AtlasWHEN: Wednesday, April 27, 8 p.m.WHERE: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 230 The Fenway, BostonHOW: Non-Event Axis/Atlas by Lea Bertucci I caught wind of composer/sound artist Lea Bertucci first when she was roughly half of TwistyCat, an improv combo that played lots around New York's artier fringes. I say roughly…
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King Crimson – Jazz Club, Chesterfield, England, September 7, 1969 (DGMLive) Caspa – "Floor Dem"/"My Pet Monster" (Digital Soundboy) Rusko – "Cockney Thug" (Sub Soldiers) < NSFW Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything's Beautiful (Columbia/Legacy; due May 27) Air – Air Song (Whynot) Air – Air Raid (Whynot) Alain Goraguer – La Planète Sauvage…
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Julien Baker, by Ben Sklar/The New York Times The ticket: Pop musicSunday, April 24, 2016 JULIEN BAKER She just played Cafe 939 in January, and already this Memphis singer-songwriter, who specializes in sweetly voiced memories and intimacies, is back again to play a bigger room. Listen to her latest album, “Sprained Ankle,” and the appeal…
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Slum Village The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, April 21, 2016 THE KING’S COURT TOUR: A TRIBUTE TO J. DILLA It’s been 10 years since James DeWitt Yancey, the gifted, influential Detroit hip-hop producer better known as J. Dilla, died of a rare blood disease at age 32. A prime mover behind neo-soul’s syncopated bump,…
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Keith Rowe/John Tilbury – Enough still not to know (Sofa) Sheer Hellish Miasma by Kevin Drumm Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma (Editions Mego < Bandcamp) Great stone / Blood dunza by Diatribes Diatribes – Great Stone/Blood Dunza (Aussenraum < Bandcamp) The System Likes You And Wants To Be Your Friend (PA047) by 1/3 Octave…
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Tom Carter The ticket: Pop musicSunday, April 17, 2016 Due to space concerns, these listings were trimmed in print. These are the untrimmed versions. MICHAEL HURLEY This roots-music maverick taped his 1964 debut LP on the same reel-to-reel machine used to capture Lead Belly’s last session; seems entirely plausible that some rare element stuck to…
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If There's A Hell Below by Black Milk Black Milk – If There's a Hell Below (Computer Ugly < Bandcamp) Detroit's Son by Guilty Simpson Guilty Simpson – Detroit's Son (Stones Throw < Bandcamp) Slum Village – Fan-Tas-Tic, Vol. 1 (Donut Boy) Donuts by J Dilla J Dilla – Donuts (Stones Throw < Bandcamp) Healsonar…
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Christina & Michelle Naughton – Visions (Warner Classics)> Olivier Messiaen – Visions de l'Amen; Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Kurtág) – Sonatina (from Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 "Actus Tragicus"); John Adams – Hallelujah Junction Benjamin Beilman – Spectrum (Warner Classics)> Franz Schubert – Sonata in A (D. 574, "Grand Duo"); Leoš Janáček…
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Melvins, by Mackie Osborne The week ahead: Pop & rockThursday, April 14, 2016 PRINCE RAMA A near-death experience on an Estonian island, a mountaintop album debut, a Central Park raccoon attack. . . hard to know where mythology ends and reality starts for psychedelic pranksters Taraka and Nimai Larson. One thing we know for sure:…
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Esperanza Spalding The ticket: Pop musicSunday, April 10, 2016 RIHANNA The most surprising thing about this arena date with the potent Barbadian R&B star is that tickets can still be had. Don’t take it as a sign that Rihanna’s star has dipped since her last solo trek in 2013; view it as proof that her…
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John Zorn – The Gnostic Preludes: Music of Splendor – Carol Emanuel, Bill Frisell, Kenny Wollesen (Tzadik) John Zorn – Alastor: Book of Angels, Volume 21 – Eyvind Kang plays Masada Book Two (Tzadik) John Zorn – The Hermetic Organ: St. Paul's Chapel, NYC (Tzadik) John Zorn – The Painted Bird (Tzadik) John Zorn –…
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Cloud Cult, by Graham Tolbert The week ahead: Rock & popThursday, April 7, 2016 2016 ROCK & ROLL RUMBLE Long viewed as the World Series of Boston rock, the Rumble rolls through the second half of its preliminary round, pitching heated battles among four worthy acts on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. (Semifinals will be…
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Bruford – One of a Kind (Winterfold) Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 in C minor – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink (Decca) Marianne Schuppe – Slow Songs (Edition Wandelweiser) Mikheil Shugliashvili – Grand Chromatic Fantasy (Symphony) for three pianos – Tamriko Kordzaia, Tamara Chitadze, Nutsa Kasradze (Edition Wandelweiser) Christian Buck & Christian Wolfarth – The…
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Gogol Bordello The ticket: Pop musicSunday, April 4, 2016 2016 ROCK & ROLL RUMBLE Long viewed as the World Series of Boston rock, the Rumble rolls out its preliminary-round shows on Sunday night, pitching heated battles among four worthy acts every night except for Wednesday. (Semifinals will be held April 15 and 16, and the…
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Stories proliferate when a figure of some stature passes, but I hope you won't mind if I share a tale I've never told before. What follows is not an obituary by any stretch; for that you'll want to read the very fine Associated Press obit. This is nothing more than a personal memory I hadn't…
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Grateful Dead – 30 Trips Around the Sun: 26. Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, Sept. 10, 1991 (Grateful Dead/Rhino) Nordic Affect – Clockworking (Sono Luminus)> Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir – Clockworking; Sleeping Pendulum; Hildur Guðnadóttir – 2 Circles; Hafdís Bjarnadóttir – From Beacon to Beacon; Þuríður Jónsdóttir – INNI – Musica da Camera; Anna…
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Tau Cross The week ahead: Rock & popThursday, March 31, 2016 SAVAGES Having put itself on the map everywhere with the short sharp shock of 2013 debut “Silence Yourself,” this explosively innovative London postpunk quartet broadens its perspective on the newly issued “Adore Life.” The musical attack remains edgy and lacerating, but the sentiments now…
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Flatbush Zombies, by Theo Wargo/Getty Images Since last week, when Boston Globe staff music critic Sarah Rodman departed for sunnier climes, I've taken over writing the paper's twice-weekly concert picks in the pop and rock category. Anyone who knows about the 13 years I spent at Time Out New York also knows that I've had…
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