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The soft touch of Jessie Ware

Fashioning a personal sound is a mysterious and difficult process. In Jessie Ware's case, the end result, her glistening and stirring 2012 debut, Devotion (Universal), shows just how magical this kind of alchemy can be when done right.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 11, 2013

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Dropkick Murphys: Talking punk, place, and parochialism with the last gang in town.

The day after the world didn't end — and a couple of weeks before the January 8 release of their new album Signed and Sealed in Blood — I met up with Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey, Matt Kelly, and James Lynch at Mul's Diner in Southie.

By: MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD | January 10, 2013

[sound of the city] WFNX Boston Accents' Top 75 standout jams of 2012

On the Download
It was a pretty great year of Boston music in 2012.

By: MICHAEL MAROTTA | January 02, 2013

Jonathan Toubin steers his night train into Boston

There are freak accidents, and then there's the case of Jonathan Toubin.

By: MICHAEL MAROTTA | January 02, 2013

Quicksand rises from the '90s

There are two ways to go about being a post-hardcore band from the '90s.

By: MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | December 28, 2012

No shadow on the Soft Moon

Released the day before Halloween, the Soft Moon's Zeroes is the perfect soundtrack for anyone looking to flirt with their '80s UK-goth dark side.

By: JONATHAN DONALDSON | January 10, 2013

A spectrum of sounds warms up Boston’s winter playlist

Ultimately unfounded threats of the Mayan apocalypse are in the rearview, but this winter's new Boston music survey starts with a Cult and ends with a Flood.

By: MICHAEL MAROTTA | January 07, 2013

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Seasonal forecast: A wintry mix of sounds from A$AP to Depeche Mode

I think that I speak for at least some kind of majority when I say "2012, don't let the door hit ya!"

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 21, 2012

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Label Made: The story of Captured Tracks

The corner of West and Noble is a quiet, industrial area of Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

By: LIZ PELLY | January 02, 2013

Starting the party — and ending it — with Bad Rabbits

Cellars by Starlight
In late November, Boston's self-proclaimed "post-R&B" band Bad Rabbits released a new song called "We Can Roll."

By: ANNIE ZALESKI | December 21, 2012

Guest Lists: The Phoenix writers + WFNX staff select their top tracks of 2012

By: PHOENIX STAFF | January 02, 2013

2012: A melodic year in metal

For me, this year was about the riff .

By: JONAH LIVINGSTON | December 20, 2012

Coming of age with Hoodie Allen

Hoodie Allen cannot escape James Franco.

By: REYAN ALI | December 18, 2012

Surveying the stacks at Weirdo Records

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Weirdo's Mass Ave storefront feels like a glorified walk-in closet, with neon-pink walls covered in posters and shelves of CDs and LPs ranging from '60s Pakistani folk instrumentals and long-lost 1940s pop crooners to Spanish '80s punk compilations and CDs of noise recordings captured in Jamaica Plain.

By: LIZ PELLY | December 18, 2012