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 ...

American musicians have it tough, but try making it work in Myanmar. To be an artist in the isolated Southeast Asian country is to face nearly impossible barriers. The Internet is spotty, the music ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mission of Burma‘s original go-’round was incredibly short; there exists only an EP and a full-length to show for the band’s four-year run from 1979 to 1983, plus a 1985-release of live recordings ...

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 ...