Music
Chuck Prophet’s rollicking sound now is a lot more thoughtful than of yore — without losing any of its rollick.
Read MoreSea Pictures offers, frankly, everything one might want in a song cycle: sweeping melodies, evocative scoring, stirring drama and pathos.
Read MoreLarge parts, if not all, of this well played, eclectic disc should appeal to various tastes in modern improvised music.
Read MoreThe Malden resident’s new album is particularly impressive under the circumstances — he suffered a major stroke in January 2016.
Read MoreEllen Taaffe Zwilich has an uncanny understanding of what instruments can do and how to showcase them best.
Read MoreIn all, Chorus pro Musica’s production was witty and diverting, timely in spots and smart throughout
Read MoreThe Cantata Singers prefaced its intriguing, Jewish-themed performance with a marvelously sensory, spiritual experience.
Read MoreThe sense of place, the passage of time, the death-haunted imagery, and the coolly rhythmic verse gives Lucinda Williams’s songs their traction.
Read MoreLester Bangs insisted that, at its best, rock was an act of pure rebellion, a liberation from the prison of respectability.
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