Big national acts top Levitate lineup
More than 20 bands will perform on three stages as the sixth annual Levitate Music and Arts Festival delivers two days of music and merriment at the Marshfield Fairgrounds, July 7-8.The Trey Anastasio...
View ArticleMusic: Favorable outlook for up-and-coming Vista Kicks
Vista Kicks is the hot young California rock band with fresh and enticing music based on their shared love of retro sounds. Their debut album came out last year, "Booty Shakers Ball," and their...
View ArticleMusic: Cattaneo and McDermott to share double bill in Plymouth
Susan Cattaneo and Chuck McDermott both released critically acclaimed albums last year, and both could easily fit under the expansive Americana umbrella. As things worked out, neither artist had a...
View ArticleSounds Around Town: Peter Asher and Jeremy Clyde (finally) join forces as a...
At their height in the mid-’60s, the British pop duo Peter & Gordon – Peter Asher and Gordon Waller – had a slew of Top 20 hits, including “A World Without Love,” “I Go to Pieces,” and “Lady...
View ArticleGrayson Hugh's redemption and return to music
There are countless reasons why some musicians achieve widespread success, and then gradually slip out of the limelight, and often it is simply changing trends and the ever-elusive popular tastes, or...
View ArticleTheater: Boston Lyric Opera guides 'The Threepenny Opera' in a new direction
Anyone who believes that the opera world needs to be gently nudged in a slightly new direction will find a kindred spirit in James Darrah.He appreciates the history of opera, but he doesn’t want that...
View ArticleMusic: The Dixie Dregs rise again
What prompted the mighty Dixie Dregs to regroup in their original lineup and tour for the first time in — gulp — 40 years? “We’ve been talking about this through the years,” said drummer Rod...
View ArticleMusic: Pop duo Timeflies starting to soar
Timeflies is the duo honed at Tufts University that has taken the pop charts by storm, with a career that is defined by the new media landscape. Timeflies is starting out on their latest national tour...
View ArticleIndie folk group Darlingside returns to Boston
Darlingside has been called “alt-folk,” “baroque folk-pop” and a host of other chewy descriptors that suggest but don’t quite capture what makes them so compelling. The Massachusetts-bred quartet has...
View ArticleMusic: Catching up with jazz chanteuse Lauren Henderson
Lauren Henderson is busy enough for three people, but the best jazz singer to ever graduate from Wheaton College doesn't believe in wasting time. When we spoke to Henderson last week, she was in...
View ArticleQuincy jazz great hopes music will bring social change
When Panamanian jazz musician Danilo Perez performs Friday, the Quincy pianist will be onstage with musicians from Korea, Kazakhstan, Israel, Russia and Europe.As organizer of the annual Global Jazz...
View ArticleMusic: Duxbury's Juliana Hatfield gets ‘Physical’
When she was growing up in Duxbury, Juliana Hatfield listened to all sorts of music, but had a special fondness for punk bands including X and post-punk bands such as the Replacements. It likely...
View ArticleBluesman Sugaray Rayford comes to Hull
It wasn't so much about Sugaray Rayford finding the blues, as it was about the blues finding him. The Texas native grew up singing gospel in church, and discovered funk and r&b as a young man...
View ArticleSounds Around Town: Terry Kitchen makes his way to ‘The Quiet Places’
Singer-songwriter Terry Kitchen had lived all over the country - his native New Jersey, then Pennsylvania, Ohio, and California - before moving to Boston in the 1980s. Though the songs he’ll be playing...
View ArticleMusic: Tommy Castro visits his 'Stompin Ground'
Tommy Castro's music has always seemed like the perfect embodiment of that special place where blues, soul, funk, and rock 'n' roll all intersect. That makes sense when you realize that's exactly the...
View ArticlePREVIEW: Boston Baroque goes to 'the outer limit'
Many musicians have limits, and for a lot of them it’s Beethoven. While that might be the case for Martin Pearlman’s Boston Baroque, it’s not what you think.“Beethoven is on the outer limit of what we...
View ArticleBlues guitarist Davy Knowles celebrates Rory Gallagher
Every lover of electric blues and a snarling Stratocaster eventually gets to Rory Gallagher: Irish guitar legend, a giant of the instrument, and the effects of whose storied music career in the 1970s...
View ArticleCUBAN HEAT: Musical about Gloria and Emilio Estefan dances to the stage
If you’re an up-and-coming Latin music artist looking to move from singer to superstar, Emilio Estefan is the man you probably want to show you the way.A former President of Sony Music, Estefan has...
View ArticleGrammy-winner Bogguss coming to Plymouth
The best thing about Suzy Bogguss' music is that, even in her country chart-topping days in the 1990s, she never limited herself to any one genre or approach. Even her most successful hits might be as...
View ArticleGuitar hero: Joe Perry releases an all-star solo album
Joe Perry is enjoying his status as an elder statesman of rock 'n' roll these days, and particularly the free time between Aerosmith tours. His new album, "Sweetzerland Manifesto" (Roman Records) is a...
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