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Bong Wish
BONG WISH by Sleazegrinder Part hazy, shimmering hippie death goddess, part snarling, shin-kicking Bad News Bear, Mariam Saleh is one of Boston rock’s most compelling and alluring figures. She is...
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Mission of Burma
MISSION OF BURMA by Eric Baylies Any serious discussion of Boston rock music begins and ends with Mission of Burma. The band was started in 1979 by Roger Miller, Peter Prescott, and Clint Conley, and...
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Noise Live Picks
Fri July 10 LIVINGSTON TAYLOR + @ Old Whaling Church, Edgartown, MA Fri July 10 GROOVECHILD + @ The Middle East, Cambridge, MA Fri July 10 TARBOX RAMBLERS @ One Longfellow Square, Portland, ME Sat...
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Book Review
You’re Crazy: First-Hand Accounts of Mental Health Struggle, Addiction, and Trauma from the Punk Scene. Volume I. Better Days Recovery Press, [n.l.], Revised edition 2014. Paper, 158 pp. Edited by...
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Who is the Big Shot?
Click on this photo taken by Coleman Rogers to reveal the Big Shot for August 2015.
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CD Reviews
MICHEAL J. ROY Eclectricity 14 tracks Michael J. Roy is the long time guitar star and handsome fashionista of Boston and NYC bands Fox Pass and Tom Dickie & the Desires. The players here are...
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Live Reviews
JENNIFER GREER The Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA 7/11/15 This is my first time seeing a show at Inman Square’s famous art space, The Lily Pad. There isn’t an empty seat in the house so I have to stand in...
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Pet of the Month
Pet of the Month has found it’s way onto The Noise website due to its popularity and the excessive submissions we’re receiving. Here’s our first online Pet of the Month… MAGICK I am Magick, child of...
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Mitch Hampton
MITCH HAMPTON: No Mindweeds On His Musical Menu by Nancy Neon Mitch Hampton is a modern day beau brummel with a full blown ’70s fetish. At the Cambridge restaurant Cuchi Cuchi, he led me on the musical...
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Duke Levine
DUKE LEVINE by A.J. Wachtel Duke Levine is everywhere, onstage or in the studio, in New England or around the world, playing folk, country, R&B and rock ’n’ roll. There’s a good chance you’ve heard...
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Live Reviews
UPPER CRUST/ LAST STAND/ DON’T CALL ME FRANK/ THE BRISTOLS T.T. the Bear’s Place, Cambridge, MA 7/17/15 This Noise correspondent is egregiously weak for women, which is germane to this review because...
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CD reviews
KIER BYRNES & FRIENDS The Best Days of the Summer 7 tracks The title track of this Americana-suffused summer-themed album is a good-natured loping tune about the mishaps of summer, full of lyrical...
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Cortney Swain
COURTNEY SWAIN: THE BROAD STROKES OF IMAGINATION by Harry C. Tuniese Songs are strange critters: thoughts with interpretive sounds, all individually contained, promising more than less, in simple...
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Jimi Hendrix Funeral
JIMI HENDRIX’s FUNERAL by A..J. Wachtel You might recognize the name David Hull from his many years playing bass for Farrenheit, The James Montgomery Band, Joe Perry Project, and Aerosmith, but many...
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Red Peters
RED PETERS by A.J. Wachtel Red Peters is a very funny man. He also has a bit of Eddie Haskell, from Leave It To Beaver, in him: his outward smile and comedic persona really camouflage a much darker,...
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Randy Black
RANDY BLACK & THE HEATHCROPPERS by Christopher Burbul One Sunday I ran in to my old band mate Larry Dersch. We’d been in the Bentmen together back in the early ’90s,and anybody who knows him know...
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Pet of the Month
Neely the Great Hello everybody. My name is Neely and I’m a strong, handsome dog with short tan fur, a square snout and a long lean tail. A lot of people think I’m a fighting dog because I’m a Pitt...
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Noise Live Picks
“+” indicated more acts on the bill Fri Sept 25 DARLINGSIDE @ Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME Fri Sept 25 CHERYL WHEELER + @ Me & Thee Coffeehouse, Marblehead, MA Sat Sept 26 T MAX + @ Cat in...
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Pet of the Month
I am Bean, handler of Christopher Brown (Vary Lumar, The Difference Engine) and Danielle Ameen. I find the girl acceptable and will occasionally perform tricks to teach her to offer treats on command....
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