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Warped speed

From the Dropkick Murphys to the Street Dogs, Mike McColgan keeps putting out fires

In Music By Chris Parker
If, as some suggest, punk is the 20th century urban blues, it’s because it speaks a universal language of disaffection and frustration while preaching hope, solidarity, and resilience. When you think about it, “We Shall Overcome” isn’t so far from “World Up My Ass,” even if much of that original anger has been diluted and Hot Topic-ated. Against such a backdrop, Boston punk traditionalists the Street Dogs stand out as much for the passion of their beliefs as the chun ... [MORE]

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Music
By Gilbert Garcia
My first reaction to hearing Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” on the radio was pure annoyance. Maybe it was the “look at me, I’m so naughty” gimmick at the core of the song, precisely calculated to ...

The strange world of Gary Wilson
All Ears
By John DeFore
You Think You Really Know Me: The Story of Gary Wilson (Plexifilm) When I first heard You Think You Really Know Me, the rescued-from-oblivion record by Gary Wilson, I thought it must ...

THE SOUND & THE FURY
Sound and the Fury
By Gilbert Garcia
Local hip-hop collective Lotus Tribe will perform this week on the Van’s Warped Tour for the second time, anchoring the alt-rock festival’s Skull Candy/Code of the Cutz Hip Hop Stage on Saturday, July ...

Seeing Sounds
Rock/hip-hop hybrid from N.E.R.D.
By Gilbert Garcia
Five years ago, Pharrell Williams was the go-to man for any pop musician seeking hipness-by-asso... ...

@#%&*!Smilers
Introspective pop from Aimee Mann
By Cole Haddon
With her sixth studio album, @#%&*! Smilers, Aimee Mann tries to liven up her incre... ...