Email Author Chris Parker

2012 Stories by Chris Parker

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  COVER STORY

  The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes

  published October 11, 2012

  A year ago Citizens for Tax Justice, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, studied the tax returns of 280 corporations. What it found was a Beltway... More >>

• Mission of Burma

  published September 13, 2012

  Arguably the finest extant '80s underground rock act to return to service, Boston's Mission of Burma were never particularly popular beyond the... More >>

• Lindsey Buckingham at Cendera Center

  published August 23, 2012

  Buckingham doesn't get enough credit for how his mid-'70s addition transformed Fleetwood Mac, with too much of it flowing to his one-time... More >>

• The Trishas are Mothers of Invention

  published August 23, 2012

  The Trishas knew from the start they were onto something special. Brought together to perform a couple songs at a 2009 tribute for songwriter... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Barbarians in the Ivory Tower

  published August 9, 2012

  Bobby Ruffin, Jr. was only 14 when a recruiter from Ashford University called. The Birmingham, Michigan, boy thought he'd clicked on a... More >>

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  For-Profit Colleges Only a Con Man Could Love

  published August 2, 2012

  Bobby Ruffin, Jr. was only 14 when a recruiter from Ashford University called. The Birmingham, Michigan, boy thought he'd clicked on a link... More >>

• H2O Music Festival at the Cotton Bowl

  published June 7, 2012

  Ozomatli's style-hopping, multicultural blend of hip-hop, rock, funk and Latin is the perfect example of cross-pollination for Univision's... More >>

• The Temper Trap at House of Blues

  published June 7, 2012

  Relocating from their Melbourne, Australia home to London before the release of 2009 debut Conditions, The Temper Trap blended like... More >>

• Preview: Bowerbirds at The Loft

  published April 12, 2012

  Prior to the release of third and latest album The Clearing, Raleigh, North Carolina trio Bowerbirds were known for their arid country folk,... More >>

• Preview: Childish Gambino, Danny Brown at Palladium Ballroom

  published April 5, 2012

  The obsession with keeping it real and demonstrating player status overshadowed hip-hop's early wit, but these two artists mark a return to the... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The Feds Attack Online Poker

  published March 1, 2012

  When you've turned nothing into something once already, you tend to feel you can do it again. There's faith your luck will turn. Perhaps it's... More >>

• Preview: Los Campesinos!, Wednesday, February 15, at Club Dada

  published February 9, 2012

  This Welsh septet arrived four years ago on the coattails of similarly energetic U.K. bands (Bloc Party, The Go! Team), blending clamor with... More >>

• The World/Inferno Friendship Society

  published January 26, 2012

  Like Gogol Bordello enduring Madness, revolving Brooklyn collective The World/Inferno Society favors loose-limbed cabaret rock equally informed... More >>