Music
Three jazz singers go outside of the Great American Songbook — with entrancing results.
It’s not Prokofiev at his finest, but his “very good” was above just about everybody else’s best.
Peter Child’s challenge was to match his orchestral and choral music to the harrowing nature of the text — and he worked this out well.
The nearly 10 year wait for the premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s string quartet Homunculus was worth it.
“There’s not too many people wanting their money back, thinking that they’re at a Pig Destroyer show or Destroyer 666.”
The Isleys remain bizarrely underrated by mainstream media outlets, but they’ve never been forgotten by music fans.
We Bostonians are a tough bunch and the Remains had a tough sound. That’s what Boston music should be remembered for.
Henry Rollins insists on defining himself strictly on his own terms.
Three incisive visions of what’s to come from largish groups of committed musicians.
The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year: Warming Up a Riff — How It Happened, and Why It Matters