Music

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Nightlife Highlights

By DJ Wavy Davy

DJ Wavy Davy’s nightlife picks for January.

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CD Review: Frankie and his Fingers

By Jeremy Schwartz

The debut by Frankie and His Fingers sports the stripped-down sound of guitar and drums straddling the lines between twitchy postpunk and pure overdriven powerpop.

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CD Review: Sarah Perrotta

By Sharon Nichols

A first spin of The Well may call to mind shades of Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs, though Perrotta remains completely original and exceedingly sophisticated in her writing.

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CD Review: The Chrome Cranks

By Sharon Nichols

Though the band’s been defunct for a decade, Atavistic recently released this high-octane, double-disc set of singles, demos, and rarities.

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The Enchanted Dollhouse

By Peter Aaron

Blueberry is Snyder’s ongoing “band” concept, a project that has released three albums of sultry, psychedelic pop-soul on the singer and multi-instrumentalist’s own The Shaz Records.