التصنيف: Metal
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2003: The Top 10 Albums
2003: The Top 10 AlbumsSteve Smith, music writer Time Out New York, January 1-8, 2004 1. Emmylou Harris Stumble Into Grace (Nonesuch). Alt-country's matriarch makes unrequited love sound positively radiant. 2. Various artists AMPLIFY 2002: balance (Erstwhile box set). European and Japanese improvisers intuitively fashion soundscapes of the future. 3. The Mars Volta De-Loused in…
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Album review: Abnormality, ‘Mechanisms of Omniscience’
Mechanisms of Omniscience by Abnormality My review of the new second LP by Marlborough death-metal quintet Abnormality is in today's Globe. No surprise that I'd dig a record so efficiently brutal; still, it was fun to play Mechanisms of Omniscience enough times repeatedly one day, interspersed with dips into the band's back catalog (a demo,…
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Best of Boston Music 2015.
Right now on the Boston Globe site, you can read a couple of pretty great team-sourced lists of the best recordings released by local artists in 2015. There's one for pop music and one for classical music; naturally I took advantage of my editorial access and contributed to both lists. Here are my five small…
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Ten albums without which 2015 would have been less rich, and more.
Today – Friday, December 11 – the Boston Globe posted lists of the best albums of 2015 as selected by six critics: staffers James Reed, Sarah Rodman, and Jeremy Eichler, plus regular contributors Julian Benbow, Jon Garelick, and Siddhartha Mitter. Those lists will all be in this Sunday's print edition, too. Last year, I was…
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Acid flashback: Ben Stas photos posted on Noise Floor.
Uncle Acid & the deadbeats, by Ben Stas/Noise Floor Photography When I posted my Boston Globe review of a concert by Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats here last week, I suggested that interested readers watch out for a subsequent post by photographer Ben Stas on Invisible Oranges. Turns out I was half-right: Ben's posted more…
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Live review: Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Royale, Sept. 14, 2015
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, by Ben Stas/Boston Globe "Uncle Acid dispenses mystery, melody at Royale"Boston GlobeSeptember 16, 2015 A fun show with a solid bill, top to bottom. Keep an eye out for a report with copious photos from Globe shooter Ben Stas at metal e-zine Invisible Oranges; meanwhile, read what Ben wrote about…
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Album review: Iron Maiden, ‘The Book of Souls’
Album review: Iron Maiden, The Book of SoulsBoston GlobeSeptember 4, 2015 Another one from last Friday…this actually shared a page with my Scorpions feature story, which made for a rather interesting impression on folks who mostly knew me for my work in The New York Times, which was about 99.99999995 percent about classical/concert music. @nightafternight…
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Interview: Rudolf Schenker of Scorpions
Scorpions, by Oliver Rath "Scorpions celebrate a half-century, on record and onstage"Boston GlobeSept. 4, 2015 Did you know that the venerable German metal band Scorpions turns 50 this month? Neither did I… and according to this interview (and others I've read), neither did founding guitarist Rudolf Schenker until he went looking for an old tape…
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Live review: Slipknot + Lamb of God, Xfinity Center, Aug. 4, 2015
Mick Thomson and Sid Wilson of Slipknot, by Matthew Shelter for Rolling Stone Slipknot + Lamb of GodXfinity Center, Mansfield, MA, Aug. 4, 2015RollingStone.comAugust 5, 2015 Much to my surprise and delight, my debut writing about music for Rolling Stone, to which I'd previously contributed a sizable Doctor Who feature last fall. I'm grateful…