…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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Case Western Reserve radio station WRUW-FM 91.1 has announced that Mission of Burma will headline its annual, free all-day concert Studio-A-Rama, whose 28th edition takes place on Saturday, September ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yan Soe’s frustration and ambition butt heads in his small apartment 7,963 miles from home. The 35-year-old Myanmar native is an internationally recognized composer and DJ, but sitting in his Denver ...

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 ...

Mission of Burma With the release of The Sound The Speed The Light, the Boston post-punk heavyweights in Mission of Burma have now released three times as many albums since reuniting in 2002 as in ...