Phenomena

Now that everyone on the planet -- including your 84-year-old mother -- has a Facebook page, why are cool local musicians still flocking to MySpace? Read More

Last week, half the column was devoted to a year-end list of my personal favorite live shows from the area. Read More

The area ranks high in entertainment news of the decade, with natives playing significant roles in some of the biggest stories. Read More

Ilja Laurs is the founder and CEO of GetJar , the multi-platform app retailer with strong claims to being second only to Apple in number of downloads. Read More

Far be it from Medeski Martin & Wood — an avant-jazz trio that has been subverting and twisting jazz genre conventions for close to two decades now — to continue to write, record, tour and follow the well-worn path that most musicians consistently travel. Read More

Few DJs have ridden the wild waves of club-land as long as Armand Van Helden has and still survived with their careers intact. Read More

Burmese pop star Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein has been designated the MTV EXIT campaign ambassador for Burma, a campaign official said. Read More

Basically I play the hipster set, just a little more groovy than a hipster dj. Read More

Recently I wrote about how social and technological factors structure our experience of music . Read More

Grand Theft Auto III, released in 2001, paved the way for "sandbox-style" games, which work with a non-linear plot. Read More