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 ...

Myanmar is known for political oppression and poverty under the rule of the world's longest-lasting military dictatorship. But a University of Dayton music professor reveals a different side of the ...

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 ...

On March 15, while much of Austin, Texas, was drowning in music and marketing and thousands of tiny bands were running the streets trying to make a dent, history was being made on a little stage at ...

Filmmaker Cyrus Moussavi and photographer Jacob Russell spent four weeks traveling through eastern Burma searching for music and stories that went unheard under the old regime. For five decades, a ...

…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 ...

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 ...

We all know the story by now, but it bears repeating now that we’re on album number four in Mission of Burma’s impressive second act. Taking a 20-year hiatus would be enough to upend most bands—or, at ...

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 ...

"“To me, being a feminist means kindness. If I stay silent when others suffer, one day it will be my turn to suffer too." ...

Friday’s Weekend Passport starts with an Oriental adventure and leaves you in a cozy European café. First, check out a vivid portrait of Burma created by a dynamic combination of photography, dramatic ...