Music: June 2008 Archives

Last Friday, Boston postpunk band Mission of Burma closed out a two-night engagement at the Paradise Rock Club by playing its 1981 album Vs. in its entirety. It was a potentially risky move for a band that has released new material as recently as 2006. Mission of Burma could have come across as antiquarian, its members curators of themselves. Instead, they tore the roof off the Paradise. Vs., the only full-length studio album the band has ever released (other efforts have been EPs or live albums), is headphone music:......

It is easy to understand why musicians on the road feel the need to deliver not just a concert, but an event. Ticket prices have climbed and the ability to transport ornate stage setups and special effects - combined with healthy performer gravitas, a typical summer concert in 2008 consists of equal parts sonic experience and eyecandy. The Raconteurs' stop at the Bank of America Pavilion on Tuesday night, however, was two times the throwback event. A vintage serving of blues and rock straight out of the 1950s and 1970s was coupled with the reminder......