Marc Hirsh
Marc Hirsh lives in the Boston area, where he indulges in the magic trinity of improv comedy, competitive adult four square and music journalism. He has won trophies for one of these, but refuses to say which.
He writes for the Boston Globe and has also been spotted on MSNBC and in the pages of Amplifier, the Nashville Scene, the Baltimore City Paper and Space City Rock, where he is the co-publisher and managing editor.
He once danced onstage with The Flaming Lips while dressed as a giant frog. It was very warm.
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Faced with a new reissue of Sam Phillips's 1994 album Martinis & Bikinis, a critic reveals his inability to write about the music that seems to be made with him in mind.
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Can you look forward to a record so much that you can't make yourself listen to it? Perhaps you can, if you're determined to have just the right listening experience.
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"Pretty Little Head" is simple yet intricate, a contradiction which helps give it the feel of a nursery rhyme that's just starting to teeter off the rails. All the while, the arrangement works hard to keep listeners from finding their bearings for long.
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Commentator Marc Hirsh considers the viewer investment required to let an uneven pilot develop as a series, and how that process went very differently for two of this season's most hyped shows.
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On the passing of Maurice Sendak, a look at Really Rosie, his collaboration with Carole King and one of the greatest children's albums ever.
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Sacha Baron Cohen has been doing most of his promotion for his upcoming movie The Dictator not as himself but as Admiral General Aladeen. Maybe it's time to leave the character at home.
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While her band rages in "Transformer," Woodroofe faces the object of her devotion without blinking.
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Tony Lucca sang Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time" last night on The Voice, putting him in a grand tradition of men who show their individuality by singing "...Baby One More Time."
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Buckingham's lush, chiming "End of Time" opens with an inquisition into the infinite.