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Music Interview: Matthew Sweet — Power Pop Master

September 12, 2017
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Matthew Sweet and Tommy Keene return to town to brighten the Music Hall in Allston.

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Music Preview: The Wood Brothers — Broad Support for Their Eclectic Sound

September 10, 2017
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The Wood Brothers are giving Massachusetts audiences plenty of opportunities to catch them live.

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Concert Review: Queen + Adam Lambert at Boston’s TD Garden

August 6, 2017
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To their credit, replacing Freddie Mercury is not something his surviving bandmates have ever tried to do.

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Music Interview: The Americano Groovers — Los Texmaniacs Come to Rhode Island’s Rhythm and Roots

July 28, 2017
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Chances to hear conjunto music in New England are rare; bravo to the Lowell Folk Festival and Rhode Island’s Rhythm and Roots.

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Music Feature: Corin Ashley — A Spectacular Return

May 25, 2017
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The Malden resident’s new album is particularly impressive under the circumstances — he suffered a major stroke in January 2016.

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Music Review: Singer/Songwriter Lucinda Williams — Americana Chanteuse

May 15, 2017
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The sense of place, the passage of time, the death-haunted imagery, and the coolly rhythmic verse gives Lucinda Williams’s songs their traction.

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CD Review: Have Mercy’s “Make the Best of It” – Best Isn’t Good Enough

May 14, 2017
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Acclaimed emo band Have Mercy doesn’t deliver much that’s new on their latest LP.

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Music Feature: Shor’ty Billups — The Last Boston Soul Man

May 11, 2017
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A celebration of a man who is one of the only remaining Boston R&B and soul artists who recorded in the 1960s.

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CD Review: Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN.” – A Manic Search

May 3, 2017
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Kendrick Lamar has produced a scattered album for a scattered time.

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Music Review: The Rolling Thunder of Kodō’s DADAN

March 25, 2017
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With each piece, the impressive physicality of Kodō’s drummers becomes even more theatrical.

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