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Talented three-piece have an album of fresh, top-notch material and an exciting new music video. Jocelyn Mackenzie, Emily Hope Price and Jeremy Styles are known as Pearl and the Beard. The band's new album ...

One of the most influential bands of the last decade, self-made startups Clap Your Hands Say Yeah told a generation of bands that they could self-produce and release a very successful album campaign. Their eponymous was a huge, soaring exploration of sound. ...

The long-awaited EP from Action Verbs emerges tonight in a great lineup over at Church of Boston. We have been staunch supports of this band and were happy to have the RSL's family of live acts when they played our June 2008 lineup over at the Middle East. ...

of Thao and the Get Down, Stay Down, the Portland Cello Project is my heroine of all bubble-gum wonderful pop music! She will visit the Middle East Downstairs tonight. Thao's stellar second album, "Know Better Learn Faster," came out early this October. ...

One of the best performances from the last month came for me just last Friday night. It was a Halloween covers party put on by The Pill at Great Scott in Allston. I came in with some pretty high expectations. ...

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Lo-Fi pioneer and a founding member of both Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh, Lou Barlow has released his new solo album, “Goodnight Unknown,” only a matter of weeks after “Farm,” Dinosaur Jr’s latest effort, on which he played bass. ...

Continuing a long tradition here in Boston, bands celebrate their Halloween spirit by playing make-believe and covering other bands. We saw this first hand last night at Great Scott where four bands did their best to cover some of Britain's best acts from the last thirty years. ...

Having won the hearts of fans and critics alike with their addictive breakout single,'When They Were Young,' Taxpayer (Jared Marsh, Maclaine Diemer, Michael Jones, Rob Adams and Tim Peters) find themselves ...

The end of October sees the return of James Chapman and his creative wellspring, Maps. The multi-talented mind behind some of our favorite sounds of 2007, Chapman formed the name, 'Maps' at first as his solo nom de music. ...

I first heard of Lucero after reading Craig Finn, frontman for The Hold Steady, rave about their live shows: I take what Craig Finn says very seriously, so I was excited to check them out. After one song ...

Fresh off an appearance at this year's CMJ Music Festival, Boston's Alan Cohen Experience have a new six-track EP called Eat the Peace. Cohen, who is a former member of the critically acclaimed band Family Junction, crafts stories and sets these witticisms to pop music with catchy hooks. ...