…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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mission of Burma has a tradition of recording random snippets during the live performance and playing them back in between songs. These "invisible band members" - Swope in the '80s and now Weston - ...

WHEN MISSION of Burma ended in early 1983, it wasn't because any of the members had defected. It was just singer-guitarist Roger Miller's ears that had quit. His tinnitus was severe enough to shut ...

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, ...

In a day and age when so many of the great groups from yesteryear seem to be reuniting solely for a paycheck, it’s refreshing to see a band treat its own reformation as a chance to make up for lost ...

recorded in boston with bob weston at the controls, the record is a departure from the pinned-needles roar of 2006's 'the obliterati'. the new album sounds far more spacious and dynamic. it is more or ...

What was once an inconceivable notion – that Mission of Burma, one of Boston’s most influential if short-lived punk bands, would someday return to the stage for a celebrated second act – has, ...

If you believe that the best albums in any genre are those that explode our preconceptions of what that genre is, then Mission of Burma’s 1982 full-length Vs. is one of the greatest punk-rock records ...

Mission of Burma are grouchy post-punk par excellence: a foursome of graying, severe creatives who happen to write gravel-gargling songs that are aesthetically severe about pedestrian stuff. Last year ...

When Mission of Burma played their first reunion show in Chicago, in November 2002, I had to be cajoled into going. I’m always skeptical of reunions–especially when the band in question meant ...