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Concert Review: Roxy Music — A Stylish Pioneer of Art-Rock Celebrates its 50th Anniversary

September 20, 2022
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Once the original Roxy Music core took the stage with their nine supporting musicians, most concerns melted into 100 sublime minutes of music.

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Concert Review: My Morning Jacket — An Evening of Mystery, Majesty, and Murk

September 18, 2022
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The veteran band from Louisville, Kentucky, kicked into the millennium with a wild and woolly mix of Southern rock, alt-country, space-prog, and electro-funk that grew weirder over time.

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Concert Review: Van Morrison — Engaged Rather than Grumpy

September 7, 2022
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A relatively short-but-sweet night that struck just enough highs and no real lows – as long as one accepts that Van Morrison gives more heed to covers than his own hits.

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Rock Album Review: Superorganism’s “World Wide Pop” — The Power of Collective Eccentricity

September 1, 2022
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In World Wide Pop, the London pop collective looks for peace in the digital cosmos, despite intimations of coming oblivion.

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Festival Review: Beach Road Weekend — A Lighthouse Beacon for Music Fans

August 31, 2022
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This version of Beach Road Weekend marked a huge step to the event joining Newport Folk and Solid Sound among New England’s marquee mid-size festivals.

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Festival Review: Tattoo the Earth Festival — A Heavy Metal Underground Reunion, and the Old Guys Delivered

August 30, 2022
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For all of the music’s fury, protest, anguish, and raw brutality, Tattoo the Earth was a lovefest.

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Rock Album Review: Marcus King’s “Young Blood” — A Manic Joy Ride

August 27, 2022
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There’s little doubt at this point regarding the 26-year-old guitarist’s talent for pulling multiple influences into one cohesive, original sound.

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Rock Album Review: The Goo Goo Dolls — Back with a Tasteful Bang

August 24, 2022
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It is always heartening for an album to live up to its much-anticipated buildup. It is even more reassuring that, after nearly four decades, The Goo Goo Dolls are breaking new ground.

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Album Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am the Moon” — Part Four, “Farewell”

August 21, 2022
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“Farewell” is the shortest album in the series, but it is perhaps the most provocative in the way it calmly muses, philosophically, on the form that togetherness can take – as it exists and as it dissolves.

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Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe — The Rewards and Hazards of Reinterpretation

August 17, 2022
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Age certainly wasn’t an issue in terms of energy. Elvis Costello played for a solid two hours with barely a break, running through four decades of music with a heavy emphasis on the old favorites.

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