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Your favorite band sucks.

lunit — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:10:22 -0800

50 Bands, 50 States: The Boston Phoenix declares the best all-time band, best all-time solo artist, and best new band from each state. West Virginia: The system cannot find the file specified.

Hear the Tintinnabulation of the Bells

canine epigram — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:15:13 -0800

Public sound sculptures can be beautiful ways of drawing passersby into creating music. Whether they're melodic chimes in subway stations, theremins in public parks, or the sounds of rivers and clocks in a art museum, all of them can add a little bit of magic to the everyday world. Paul Matisse is an artist who has created multiple public sound sculptures across the Boston Area. He built three sound sculptures in the Kendall Square subway station in Boston, and another in Charlestown, called the Charlestown Bells. One Bostonian lamented the struggle to maintain public sound sculptures, kickstarted efforts to sponsor their repair, and drew a response from Matisse himself. Not everybody appreciates public sound sculptures; The Musical Fence, originally installed in Cambridge, was relocated to the DeCordova Sculpture Park and a museum in Vermont after people kept playing it at all hours of the night. A few other public sound sculptures are: Gun Holstrom's "Omphalomin"creates sound through optical sensors in a Helsinki park. Bill Fontana's "Primal Soundings" brings the sounds of the River Aire and the sounds of a clock bell tower to the Leeds City Art Gallery and the Victoria Garden.

More than a feeling

lobstah — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:10:09 -0800

Brad Delp 1951-2007 Lead singer for the band Boston , dead at 55. "We've just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll." is all you will find at the band Boston's website

See you at the rock show!

mr.curmudgeon — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:07:53 -0800

Tourfilter: Track your favorite bands. See who else is tracking them. Never miss another show! [Boston, Chicago, New York for now - other cities on the way.]

Dirty Water - The Boston Rock & Roll Museum

madamjujujive — Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:03:41 -0800

"Kids were standing on chairs and dancing in the aisles the minute the police backs were turned. The building was dark with only the spotlights on...Satin jacketed packs of teens slugged, beat and robbed 15...Over my dead body will there be another rock show in the Boston Arena." ....from the 29 chapter History of Boston R&R at Dirty Water - The Boston Rock & Roll Museum.

Dok Millennium — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:54:31 -0800

80's ROCK IS DEAD (LONG LIVE 80'S ROCK) Holy crap, I saw an ad on the teevee for a new BOSTON album called Corporate America. A new Boston album! A self-described "in your face" indictment of big business and what it is doing to our world. You'll be comforted to know that the music is still way overproduced and the political content has all the impact of Mike + the Mechanics "Silent Running." In other words — don't change a thing! It turns out all the big 80's rockers have 2002 albums, even the little king himself: Phil Collins. Testify. I'll be damned if one of his new songs doesn't sound like "Take Me Home (Redux)." Def Leppard's "X"? Same. Poison's "Hollyweird"? Same! Poison even does a party rock version of The Who's "Squeeze Box." Wonderful. Bon Jovi, Rush, Robert Plant — what year is this again? Who cares. Let's rock. As soon as this Family Ties is over.

y2karl — Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:28:17 -0800

Mel Lyman 1938-1978. Mel Lyman was controversial. He was the brilliant folk musician who soothed the Dylan-ruffled crowd at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, the Fort Hill guru whose prose in the undergound newspaper Avatar shocked conservative Bostonians of the late 60s... Many years of collecting, and help from numerous people has resulted in the large collection of articles reproduced here. Some say Lyman was God... others that he was a devil... but most of these articles show him as a charismatic individual somewhere between those two extremes. An exhaustively authoritative page about a very interesting harmonica player who became God. And, man, does this bring back the 60s...(Details within)