Michael Patrick Brady

About Michael Patrick Brady

Michael Patrick Brady is a writer and editor from Boston. He has contributed music criticism to a variety of publications, including Brainwashed, Stylus Magazine, Boston's Weekly Dig, and ALARM Magazine. He is also a contributor to the technology channel of Forbes.com, and has been quoted as a consumer electronics expert by The New York Times.

Michael enjoys free jazz and female singer-songwriters, books with big words and small print, TV shows with one camera and no laugh track, and films in which affluent people get their comeuppance. Like all those who have more opinions than places to put them, he maintains a blog and collects his various publications at his website.

Features

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Film

Shallow Graves

[22.Feb.07] :. Martin Scorsese's hotly tipped Oscar fave, The Departed, plumbs the depths of the psychological and sociological motives of violence, loyalty, and duty.

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Reviews

Books

Young J. Edgar by Kenneth D. Ackerman

[6.Jun.08] :. Justice is meant to be blind, but Hoover and Palmer saw red everywhere they looked.

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Music

Jason Ajemian's Smokeless Heat: The Art of Dying

[6.Jun.08] :. The Art of Dying is another fine product from a scene whose creative output seems inexhaustible.

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Music

Vijay Iyer: Tragicomic

[12.May.08] :. The rising jazz pianist takes a stab at transforming the tone of the 21st century with a visionary album that blends the artistic and the intellectual.

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Music

Fern Knight: Fern Knight

[7.May.08] :. Margaret Wienk's folk noir enters a new realm, traveling through gorgeous fantasies and inspiring landscapes as she confronts the more sinister aspects of the real world.

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Music

Black Francis: SVN FNGRS

[17.Apr.08] :. The legend confronts mythology and manages to produce a very compelling album while solving a few existential crises along the way.

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Books   John Adams by David McCullough

Featured Article

Books

Richard and John by Frank McLynn

[25.Feb.08] :. McLynn has a keen eye not only for history, but for storytelling and the importance of artfulness in writing. This is everything a historical biography should be.

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Books   Jazz by Bob Blumenthal

Music   Bill Dixon with the Exploding Star Orchestra: Bill Dixon with the Exploding Star Orchestra

Books   Union 1812 by A.J. Langguth

Music   Keefe Jackson's Project Project: Just Like This

Books   No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Music   Amir ElSaffar: Two Rivers

Books   The Murder of Regilla by Sarah B. Pomeroy

Featured Article

Books

1776 by David McCullough

[22.Oct.07] :. It’s one thing to simply read Washington’s words as they are related through the eyes and pen of an intermediary like McCullough, but to hold in your hands a faithful recreation of his original letter, to follow the loops and valleys of his script handwriting -- this experience significantly personalizes the history.

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Books   How the Irish Invented Slang by Daniel Cassidy

Books   In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 by Francis French

Books   The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Music   Liars: Liars

Music   Clinic: Funf

DVDs   Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

Music   Glenn Jones: Against Which the Sea Continually Beats

PopMatters Pick

DVDs

John Prine: Live on Soundstage 1980 [DVD]

[29.Mar.07] :. In this welcoming performance, one of music’s most remarkable songwriters brings you back to where it all began.

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DVDs   Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower

Music   Willard Grant Conspiracy: Let It Roll

Music   Sonny Rollins: Tenor Madness

Music   Johnny Cash: Live from Austin, TX

Music   Keefe Jacksons Fast Citizens: Ready Everyday

Music   Cul De Sac: ECIM

Blog posts

Consuming Consumables

1776: The Illustrated Edition by David McCullough [$65.00]

[21.Nov.07] :. It’s one thing to simply read President Washington’s words as related through an intermediary, and quite another to hold in your hands a faithful recreation of his original letter -- this...

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