Theater review: The rhythm gets you in 'On Your Feet!'
Of all the juke-box musicals out there - that combination of concert tour and theatrical experience - few can compare with “On Your Feet!” as a feel-good, look Ma! I’m dancing! show-biz evening....
View ArticleBoston rockers Buffalo Tom back with plenty of passion and 'Peace'
Rock fans should not assume that because Buffalo Tom's current tour, which touches down at a sold-out Paradise Rock Club in Boston tonight, is meant to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their most...
View ArticleAerosmith's Joe Perry talks about new album, busy life, upcoming tours
Boston area fans who missed Joe Perry's "Sweetzerland Manifesto" tour in Boston this week shouldn't be worried, because they should have several opportunities to hear the legendary Aerosmith guitarist...
View ArticleTwisted Pine shatters perception of Berklee band
Three young musicians meet at Boston's Berklee College of Music, bastion of jazz studies, and then they find a jazz bassist from UMass-Amherst, and they form ... a bluegrass band?Of course they do, and...
View ArticleContemporary soul band Durand Jones and the Indications capped off their...
If there wasn't a scene in those "Back to the Future" movies where soul music regains its prominence atop the pop charts, Durand Jones and the Indications are here to tell us there should've been....
View ArticleAerosmith's Joe Perry talks about new album, busy life, upcoming tours
Boston area fans who missed Joe Perry's "Sweetzerland Manifesto" tour in Boston this week shouldn't be worried, because they should have several opportunities to hear the legendary Aerosmith guitarist...
View ArticleMusic: Trampled by Turtles are coming to town
Trampled by Turtles, despite its whimsical name, has always had lofty ambitions. The quintet from Duluth, Minn., seeks to mash rock, folk, bluegrass, and even a bit of punk into exciting new music,...
View ArticleSinger-songwriter Andy Grammer finds freedom in success
Andy Grammer joins Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops to open the spring 2018 season at Symphony Hall on May 10, with a concert that repeats May 11; he'll also perform at Tanglewood June 22.
View ArticleSOUNDS AROUND TOWN: Joey Alexander plans a hands-on piano experience
It would be fine with Joey Alexander if people stopped referring to him as a child prodigy.Sure, he’s only 14, and he fronts his own trio, and he’s played at the Newport Jazz Festival, and saxophonist...
View ArticleBoston Pops to honor Bernstein with season-long appreciation
Although the Boston Pops won’t play happy birthday, it will give a 100th birthday gift to Leonard Bernstein and the audiences at Symphony Hall. The orchestra celebrates the legendary composer and...
View ArticleReview: Brandi Carlile holds nothing back in Boston shows
Brandi Carlile rather sheepishly admitted Saturday night that her current concert setlist includes all 10 songs from her new album, "By the Way I Forgive You," because she and her band feel it's the...
View ArticleMilton teen to perform with Boston Pops
Milton teenager Sam Higgins will sing with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall on June 6.Sam, 15, is one of three winners of the 10th annual Fidelity Investments Young Artists Competition, a state-wide...
View ArticleSOUNDS AROUND TOWN: Nashville singer Josh Rouse pays his first visit to Club...
Longtime fans of singer-songwriter Josh Rouse agree that one of the coolest things about listening to his records and going to his live shows is that you’re never quite sure what you’re going to get....
View ArticleDonna the Buffalo, Chris Janson among cool upcoming shows
The original inspiration for the band Donna the Buffalo was simply old time community music shows, where the variety of styles you heard was only limited by the number of willing performers. That...
View ArticleMusic Scene: Two chances to see Justin Townes Earle
Justin Townes Earle and Lilly Hiatt have a lot in common, most notably that both released albums last year that were almost universally considered among the best of 2017, so it makes sense that they...
View ArticleBoston music icon Thalia Zedek on tour with new trio
Thalia Zedek’s seen a lot in over three decades as a working musician: an anchor of Boston’s punk and indie scenes, much-saluted, especially by fellow warriors of fringe music from here to New York...
View ArticleMusic: Rory Block has a blast singing the blues
Rory Block grew up loving music, but when she heard acoustic country blues at age 14, she had really found her destiny. Block grew p in Greenwich Village where her father had a famed leather shop. She...
View ArticleSOUNDS AROUND TOWN: The Alchemists brew up a cauldron of free jazz at the...
If you label a piece of music with a specific genre – rock, folk, classical, jazz – you get a general idea of what you’re going to hear. But once you get to sub-genres, like acid rock and folk-punk,...
View ArticleSOUNDS AROUND TOWN: Joaquim Cooder joins his dad Ry at the Wilbur
Ry Cooder and Joaquim Cooder have more in common than just sharing a last name and being father and son. They also both have new records out: Guitar- and singer-songwriter legend Ry’s is the album “The...
View ArticleBoston Pops July 4 concert will include popstar Rachel Platten, Indigo Girls
BOSTON – It’s a fabulous all-female Fourth of July celebration in Boston this year.Popstar and Newton native Rachel Platten is one of five women joining conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops for...
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