Paul Robicheau
From Tom Morello’s searing set to CMAT’s breakout turn and Dave Matthews’ final-set detour, the festival kept its focus on music that opened outward rather than looking back.
Billy Bragg reunion, festival deep cuts, and a weekend of discovery turn MASS MoCA into a communal music feast.
A record crowd for genre-blurring acts, with Geese and Wednesday signaling a shift in the festival’s identity.
In Groton, the veteran ensemble leans into mood and understatement as its final touring year begins.
Prolific avant-garde composer, saxophonist, arranger, producer, and improviser John Zorn led a sharply attuned band through knotty takes on his Masada songbook.
In Boston, the Boss fused crowd-pleasing anthems with a forceful anti-Trump jeremiad—raising questions even as he roused the faithful
With chemistry forged on tour, the group fuses jazz, punk, and prog into a fluid live assault.
Mike Rivard’s rotating collective has blended dub, jazz, Moroccan trance, funk, electronica, hip-hop, and prog into its heady stew.
The jam-rock vibes and gnarly blues licks that Scofield showcased in many of his projects over the years weren’t evident in Saturday’s laid-back final set of his trio’s two-night stand.
An evening where music steeped in Armenian culture was too often outweighed by the acrobatic complexities of prog rock and jazz fusion.
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