Scott McLennan
Tedeschi Trucks Band demonstrated the difference between actively engaging in a musical tradition versus paying tribute to it.
This year’s edition of Metalfest matched the fabled fests of yore – a point not lost on many of the bands that performed, many of them making note on stage that the metal world had somehow been made right again.
In performance, singer Sierra Ferrell offered a more expansive vision of her spirited and spiritual approach to country music.
This unconventional memoir suggests that music can do more than just change ideas or beliefs — it can transform minds, overhaul brains.
Returning to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough on Thursday night, the Rolling Stones, miraculously, sounded dangerous again.
This month, the veteran guitarist, singer, and songwriter released his first solo album, 99 Shots, and found himself leaning in a direction he had spent decades avoiding.
Over the course of Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s two-hour show the tension between magnificent creativity and near collapse were palpable.
A powerful performer and artist emerges in this ambitious album about being publicly ostracized and maligned — and coming back stronger.
Sessanta succeeded in making “old” songs and “old” bands sound powerful, vital, and progressive.
The Disco Biscuits are playing champion-level shows following a period of rebuilding and recalibrating that brought the band out of semi-retirement.
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