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January 11, 2002

Mission of Burma Fight Again

Boston band conducts reunion warm-up in front of hometown crowd

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There's no shortage of post-punk reunions these days -- in fact, some of us out here are getting pretty damn sick of waiting for those November Group and Comsat Angels reunions. But Mission of Burma are different. The Boston avant-punk pioneers made a great comeback album with 2004's OnOffOn, but...

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Too herky-jerky and too enamored with the joys of noise to ever find mass acceptance during its active years, Mission of Burma has nevertheless garnered a posthumous reputation as a crucial force in U.S. punk history. It wouldn't be inaccurate to call this Boston quartet the missing link between the artier side of late-'70s British postpunk (Wire, Gang of Four, Joy Division) and the American indie...

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