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 ...

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 ...

FOR EVERY HALF-ASS, part-nostalgia, part-money-grabbing reunion tour that has been thrown at us in the last decade, there is Mission of Burma. For every “band” that has sucked in their guts, ...

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 ...

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, ...