Can It Be Done?: Jazz a Day Job Supreme

written by: Taylor Cowan on September 5, 2012

Can culturally defunct genres like classical and jazz be made relevant again? Is it possible to build an audience? The answer is inseparable from the trajectory of the music industry itself.

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Yeasayer at The Vic Theatre on August 22, 2012

written by: Kim Manning on August 28, 2012

A Yeasayer show is much like one could expect. At any given time, lights shined in bright purple, yellow, orange, blue, green and any combination imaginable. For this tour, the band touted props adding a whole new dimension to their light show.

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A Masterful Delirium

written by: Leah Pickett on August 21, 2012

Thanks to a brilliantly sinister score by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, “The Master” is Paul Thomas Anderson’s most unsettling film to date.

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Don’t Call Them Cute

written by: Taylor Cowan on August 20, 2012

Introducing a Lawrence, Kansas band with a penchant for regional rock, paper, scissors.

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Six Stellar Covers

written by: Anna Holmquist on August 16, 2012

Sometimes certain songs are sweeter the second time around.

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Real Estate at Mass MoCA on August 9, 2012

written by: Evan Brown on August 10, 2012

A set that focused on the second album was to be expected considering its 2011 release but it was certainly nice to hear the jangly “Beach Comber” along with a handful of other songs from their self-titled debut.

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