Music: Feel the funk with Tuxedo
The duo known as Tuxedo are on a missin to create "boogie funk," Aug. 7 at Brighton Music Hall in Boston.
View ArticleFour decades in, Cheap Trick continues to rock on
It’s no easy feat to follow the history of Cheap Trick. Part of the reason is that the band has been making up their history as they go along. For instance, the liner notes on their self-titled first...
View ArticleFree music, food and a fine time at POSTunderground in Brookline
There was a time when there were jazz joints all over the place in and around Boston. OK, that time was the 1950s, and though there’s still a handful of clubs and rooms and lounges featuring America’s...
View ArticleMusic preview: Molly Burch blooms on 'First Flower'
Singer-songwriter Molly Burch will perform Aug. 10 in Boston.
View Article24 actors who have unmistakable voices
My wife Beverly has many skills. For example, she can juggle three bowling balls blindfolded while standing on one foot.OK, maybe not. But what she can do is identify the voices of actors and actresses...
View ArticleSYMKUS: Woodstock turns 50 and I remember (almost) all of it
Cutline: Me, my uncollected tickets, and a brochure from Walter Dyer Leather. [Courtesy photo/Lisa Becker]EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an updated version of a story Ed Symkus wrote in 1994, commemorating the...
View ArticleMusic: Weymouth's Jay Psaros to share stage with Foreigner
Maybe we can re-work the old tune: How we gonna keep him doing open mikes in Cohasset now that he's seen Cotillion, Nebraska? Weymouth's Jay Psaros has always been a man in a hurry, professionally...
View ArticleLi’l Ed and the Blues Imperials headline North River Blues Festival
The origin story behind Li’l Ed and the Blues Imperials’ debut album is a charming throwback. When Chicago’s Alligator Records, the nation’s premier blues label, was putting together a collection of...
View ArticleSounds Around Town: Lyle Brewer’s guitar playing will say it all at Club Passim
It took some time for Lyle Brewer to find the instrument that would allow him to say what he wanted to say ... musically. Growing up in Andover, he liked listening to his older brother play saxophone,...
View ArticleConcert review: Santana sizzles in Mansfield
Among the many reasons to celebrate this summer’s 50th anniversary of Woodstock, one of the most invigorating is the tour that proves Carlos Santana is still making exciting and even groundbreaking...
View ArticleJazz band pays tribute to Nancy Wilson in Plymouth show
Eastham native Emily Wade Adams said she was just a little stunned and mostly intrigued when her friend and bandmate Justin Flynn loaned her an old record, the 1962 Capitol Records release “Nancy...
View ArticleConcert review: Zac Brown Band hits it out the park at Fenway
No matter how many times they demolish the competition on the country music charts, the Zac Brown Band is only nominally a country band, and might more properly be described as the most current...
View ArticleConcert review: Vampire Weekend takes a bite out of Boston
Vampire Weekend loves Boston and judging from Tuesday night’s soldout show at Agganis Arena, Boston loves them right back. A crowd of about 8000 fans, most of them college age or mid-30s and younger,...
View ArticleMusic: The Stompers are a rock-solid original
The Stompers will be pulling off a rare doubleheader this Saturday, performing as part of Tewksbury Summerfest at 5:45 p.m. on the North Shore, and then later headlining The Jetty in Marshfield,...
View ArticleRoomful of Blues singer credits Bellingham teacher
It’s been just over five decades since Roomful of Blues played their first gig. And over that time, there have been about as many different players in the revolving lineup. But while the faces have...
View ArticleNew album, gigs for Pembroke’s Matt York
Pembroke’s Matt York doesn’t play the kind of music that dominates the contemporary country music charts, which is to say arena-rockin’ odes to your truck, your small town, the beach, beer, country...
View ArticleFormer WFNX disc jockey Julie Kramer unearths photos of rock 'n' roll royalty
Rock legends Kurt Cobain, Debbie Harry, Lenny Kravitz, Iggy Pop, Chrissie Hynde, Elvis Costello, Lou Reed and David Bowie are just a few of the music gods photographed by disc jockey Julie Kramer, and...
View ArticleUpcoming music picks: Jason Aldean, Fabulous Thunderbirds and more
There is so much incredible music out there waiting to be heard. Here are some suggestions that have caught the eyes and ears of The Patriot Ledger's longtime music writer, Jay N. Miller.
View ArticleMusic: Folk rocker Steve Forbert to perform in Plymouth
Steve Forbert has always seemed like a man on the move, the quintessential troubadour going down the road to his next show, and relentlessly creating new music shaped by the here and now. In that vein,...
View ArticleMusic review: Blues and boogie with ZZ Top in Boston
Two of the most reliable warhorses in the classic rock cavalry charged through Boston’s Rockland Trust Pavilion on Wednesday night, as ZZ Top and Cheap Trick blazed through sets of some of their...
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