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Friday, December 20, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week (AND Next Week) by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that's coming up this week and next.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:36PM
Friday, December 13, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, and dance that's coming up this week.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29AM
Monday, December 9, 2013

Fuse Music Preview: Indie Rock Ranger’s Holiday Spectacular by Adam Ellsworth

Indie Rock Ranger's Holiday Spectacular offers an eclectic lineup that runs from the grunge/hard rock-inspired sound of Harris Hawk to the more poppy/dance rock of Freezepop—a little somet…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:24PM
Friday, December 6, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and dance for the weekend and beyond.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AM
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Fuse Book Review: “Next Big Thing” — The Music Scene and Rock Clubs of 1980s Boston, Revived by Adam Ellsworth

In "Next Big Thing," Terry Kitchen’s prose brings 1980s Boston, its music scene, and its rock clubs—from the long gone Rathskeller to the still standing Paradise—to life.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:13AM
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Fuse Album Review: Singer/Songwriter Jake Bugg Approaches “Shangri La” by Adam Ellsworth

Jake Bugg is hardly a punk, but he’s definitely acquired a bite that he didn’t have on his debut album.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:11AM
Friday, November 22, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week (AND Next Week!) by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance, music, theater, and film that's coming up for the next two weeks.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AM
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Fuse Album Review: Beady Eye — “BE” Good? by Adam Ellsworth

At its best, "BE" is an adventurous album, which automatically makes it an improvement over Beady Eye's 2011 debut.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:04AM
Friday, November 15, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance and music that’s coming up this week.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56AM
Friday, November 8, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, and music that’s coming up this week.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:40AM
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Fuse Concert Review: OTP — Having Fun at the Middle East-Upstairs by Adam Ellsworth

Despite the band’s obvious affinity for alcohol, there’s nothing sloppy about OTP. They’re a tight unit.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:53PM
Monday, November 4, 2013

Fuse Film Review: The Stone Roses Bloom Again — “Made Of Stone” by Adam Ellsworth

This is a movie that one Stone Roses fan made for other Stone Roses fans to enjoy. There’s nothing wrong with that though, and judged in this way, it’s a winner.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:09AM
Friday, November 1, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, and music that's coming up this week.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AM
Monday, October 28, 2013

Fuse Album Review: Arcade Fire’s Fantastic “Reflektor” by Adam Ellsworth

As those of you who have already heard "Reflektor" no doubt know, the album is fantastic, one of the best of the year for sure, whether the Grammys take notice or not.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37PM
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Fuse News: R.I.P. Lou Reed by Adam Ellsworth

Remembering Lou Reed, who died Sunday at the age of 71.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03PM
Friday, October 25, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance, music, and film that's coming up this week.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AM
Friday, October 18, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that's coming up this week.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AM
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Fuse CD Review: Pearl Jam — A Sturdy “Lightning Bolt” by Adam Ellsworth

Lightning Bolt, Pearl Jam’s tenth and latest studio album, takes the band’s newfound (or at least newly re-found) appreciation for radio-friendly mainstream rock and successfully stretc…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:39AM
Friday, October 4, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in music and dance that’s coming up this week.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:45PM
Friday, September 27, 2013

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week by Adam Ellsworth

Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:33PM
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Fuse Concert Review: Travis Live at House of Blues — Standing Tall by Adam Ellsworth

“Return to form” is a little too easy, but if you miss the “old” Travis, then the new album, Where You Stand, is the one you’ve been waiting for.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:50AM
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Fuse Book Review: The Ecstasy and Agony of WBCN by Adam Ellsworth

I found myself most interested by the fact that so many of the changes that took place at WBCN made absolute sense to me, even if I had an aesthetic beef with them.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AM
Monday, September 23, 2013

Fuse Concert Review: Jake Bugg Live at the Paradise Rock Club by Adam Ellsworth

The crowd at the Paradise Rock Club was awful, and whether Jake Bugg noticed this or not, it caused him to turn in a pretty mediocre performance.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:05AM
Friday, September 20, 2013

Fuse Concert Review: Arctic Monkeys Live at Paradise Rock Club by Adam Ellsworth

If any more proof was needed that AM is a career highlight for Arctic Monkeys, the fact that the crowd Tuesday night met every new song with the same if not greater enthusiasm as the hits sh…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:42PM
Monday, September 16, 2013

Fuse Album Review: MGMT — Sonic Innovators Make a Misstep by Adam Ellsworth

What is a problem, however, is that despite a fairly promising start, nothing at the beginning of MGMT can make up for the migraine inducing cacophony of pointless sound that is the album’…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:40PM

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