Boston-based Mission of Burma’s latest release, OnOffOn, was released 20 years too late. Their first full-length studio album since 1983, immediately sounds as if it could’ve been recorded when the ...

…Of course they are influential, but did you suffer ear trauma and go deaf right before May 2004? Burma tipped their musical output scales towards NEW compared to OLD in 2009!… About eight or nine ...

When Boston quartet Mission of Burma broke up in 1983, the band had a modicum of fans, but its legend didn't snowball until the years following its dissolution. Eventually, artists like Moby and R.E.M ...

Reunion tours have become big business in the past few years, but generally, the groups in question had a following in their time. Mission of Burma -- considered by some to be the father of indie rock ...

After a nineteen-year break, post-punk pioneers Mission of Burma will kick off a short stint of reunion shows at New York’s Irving Plaza on Saturday night. Last night, the band performed at Boston’s ...

Left to right, Peter Prescott, Clint Conley, Bob Weston (as the "monk") and Roger Miller of the post-punk band Mission of Burma. (Courtesy Jon Strymish) There was no farewell show, no farewell tour, ...

This summer, Mission of Burma, a band whose original heyday was 1979 to ’83, will play eight shows in the United States — two in their hometown of Boston; two in New York; and one apiece in Philly, ...

On Saturday, July 16, the community is invited to partake in a magical event at Kleinhans Music Hall. Helping Hands for Burma is being hosted by Karen Society of Buffalo, with the intention of raising ...

Ann Arbor in the ’60s: I started going to rock shows during the “Summer of Love,” 1967, between 9th and 10th grade. The first “Love-in” at West Park, Ann Arbor’s 7th Seal opened for the Charles Lloyd ...

The song was a cry against the living hell that descended upon the people of Myanmar since February 1st, when the military overthrew the country’s civilian government. It was also a song of solidarity ...

Love hurts, but rock and roll can put you in the hospital. Take, for instance, Roger Miller of Boston’s praised-to-high-hell Mission of Burma. Being one of the loudest bands of the original post-punk ...

It was once said that only a handful of people actually bought Velvet Underground records when that band was in existence, but all of them ultimately started bands. The same could easily be said of ...