Music
As the festival season draws to a close, a look back at the 2013 BeanTown Jazz Festival.
Read MoreLightning Bolt, Pearl Jam’s tenth and latest studio album, takes the band’s newfound (or at least newly re-found) appreciation for radio-friendly mainstream rock and successfully stretches its parameters a bit.
Read MoreA new disc of music by Martin Schlumpf, one of the leading figures in Swiss contemporary music whose career focuses on “the borderlands between improvisation and composition.”
Read MoreThe Boston Symphony Orchestra lacks a composer-in-residence. There are many local composers the orchestra might draw on were it to establish such a position, but few have the international reputation of someone like Thomas Adés.
Read MoreEvery few years, people ask, “Is Jazz Dead?” Nights like this, with living masters and future stars all paying homage to a dead legend whose music will live forever, refute the pessimism.
Read MoreTomorrow night Deacon Leslie Pittman, an emerging star on the gospel quartet circuit at the age of 81, comes into town with Philadelphia’s Just Us Singers.
Read MoreWith this LP, Daniel Lopatin has crafted an immaculate aural landscape that one can (and will want to) lose oneself in for hours.
Read MoreKneebody threw jazz into the stylistic blender and it popped out as something you probably haven’t heard before. The future sounds good.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreMother Nature likes pianos.
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