Jason M. Rubin
Recorded prior to a debilitating stroke and released a year afterward, Michael Kiwanuka’s album offers beautiful songs of pain, loneliness, heartbreak, and despair.
On “To Oscar With Love,” the jazz vocalist brings warmth, wit, and a fresh perspective to twelve songs by an underappreciated master storyteller.
A new collection of unreleased demos, live performances, and studio recordings puts Crenshaw’s enduring pop gifts in the spotlight ahead of his November 11 appearance at Boston’s City Winery.
The former Heartbreaker brings a deepening songbook, a crack band, and new material from “Mission of Mercy” to Beverly’s Cabot.
Joined by the ELP Legacy band and archival footage of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake, the drummer delivered a technically astonishing and emotionally respectful evening at the Cabot Theatre
At 84, the singer-songwriter discusses a lifetime of harmony, activism, loss, and why songs of peace and protest remain urgently necessary.
At 52 Sumner, the 27-year-old guitar virtuoso and his crack band moved freely among blues, soul, funk, R&B, and rock — making a compelling case that Ingram is ready for much larger rooms.
The Guess Who and Don Felder bring skill and spirit to Boston, though nostalgia comes packaged with more than a few modern annoyances.
Joe Jackson revisits familiar sounds with sardonic flair and surprising warmth on his most concise, eclectic album in years.
Music Commentary: Brian Wilson’s Legacy Thrives — 2026 Reissues Reviewed
Though Brian Wilson has left us, his enormous musical legacy lives on through a growing series of posthumous CD and vinyl reissues and books.
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