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Concert Tue Mar 13 2007

Hey, look who's coming back... not so exclusively this time.

So you missed out on Morrissey at the Aragon last year because all of those pesky out-of-towners snapped up tickets first? Well, the joke's on them for flying hundreds or thousands of miles to see a man who just a few months later embarks on a US tour. He'll perform at Auditorium Theatre on May 15. While he's lost a step or two over the last twenty-some years (Holy moly, almost eligible for the joke that's the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), he's just as charismatic as ever - only with a slightly larger admission price.

James Ziegenfus

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Feature Thu Nov 12 2009

She's Money

By Kara Luger

When talking musical influences with Helen Money, it's easy to forget her instrument of choice: cello. She references Bob Mould's Beaster, with its wall of sound and intense, thought-obliterating guitar work. She speaks of The Who and all the crazy rock bands she was exposed to in the '80s. "The stuff I like sounds like life or death," she reasons. And this coming from a woman with a picture of Jimi Hendrix taped to her cello case like he's a saint.

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