Music
The jam-band veterans mixed ’70s soundtrack classics with sprawling originals, movie-inspired costumes and a giant smoking bong at their Boston Halloween bash.
Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon” and Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s “Eroica” make a forceful pairing in the pianist’s fierce, illuminating new album.
Gianandrea Noseda leads sumptuous, finely wrought accounts of the composer’s Second and Fourth Symphonies, revealing music that deserves a wider hearing.
The composer leads a virtuosic debut recording of his Jorie Graham–inspired oratorio, whose striking invention is sometimes blunted by relentless intensity
A great cover does more than reproduce the original. Ndegeocello’s bold reinterpretations make the case for reinvention over imitation.
“On Resistencia!” and “We Are Not the Headliner,” two inspired ensembles explore the possibilities of rhythm, improvisation, and collective expression.
Recorded prior to a debilitating stroke and released a year afterward, Michael Kiwanuka’s album offers beautiful songs of pain, loneliness, heartbreak, and despair.
A “Song of the Pirates” and feather-light scherzo movements stand out in world-premiere recordings led by Howard Griffiths—a welcome rediscovery of a composer admired by Mendelssohn and Schumann.
From TikTok to the concert stage, the singer’s unaffected way with the Great American Songbook suggests a hopeful turn in an AI-drenched culture.
Grahame Lesh on growing up Dead, Bob Weir, Bravo’s “Real Housewives,” the birth of Terrapin Station, and why the Dead will never die.
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