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Concert Review: Boston Landmarks Orchestra Explores Revolutions in Sound

August 25, 2025
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By Aaron Keebaugh The point was made: this was not merely a revolt, but a revolution in sound. “It is a big revolt,” King Louis XVI exclaimed after the fall of the Bastille in 1789. “No Sir,” answered François de la Rochefoucauld, “a big revolution.” The events that followed shook France to its very foundations…

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Rock Concert Review: Slow and Steady Wins — Widespread Panic’s Triumphant Fenway Run

August 25, 2025
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Playing nearly 60 songs across a trio of near-three-hour shows,  jam-rockers Widespread Panic certainly made their return to Boston count.

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Classical Album Review: At the “Edge of the Storm” with The Telegraph Quartet

August 25, 2025
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An impressive series of performances that are not for the faint-of-heart.

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Opera Album Review: Aleksandra Kurzak Channels a Great Singer of the Past

August 24, 2025
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World-renowned soprano Aleksandra Kurzak’s homage to the great French soprano Cornélie Falcon is largely one to cherish.

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Classical Album Review: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Orchestral Works

August 24, 2025
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This fine album demonstrates that the music of neglected, mixed-race English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is well worth resurrecting.

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Album Review: MonoNeon — Forging His Own Psychedelic Path

August 23, 2025
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MonoNeon is the most important musician to emerge from Memphis in recent memory.

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Rock Concert Review: Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts — Still Restless After All These Years

August 23, 2025
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Regardless of his age, Neil Young, now 79, can still rage.

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Musician Interview: The Sweet Remains Tour New England

August 22, 2025
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“The music I really respond to is by artists who have in some way captured a moment in an evocative way, a universal truth, something that feels honest and real. That’s what we try to do.”

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Film Review: Killing Time with Talk — Olivier Assayas’s “Suspended Time”

August 22, 2025
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If life among these four characters risks being so monotonous over the course of an hour and 45 minutes, just imagine what it must have been like to endure months of lockdown before a vaccine became available.

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Rock Concert Review: A Killer All-Star Edition of The Joe Perry Project

August 21, 2025
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But this wasn’t just a night for the hits. It was an occasion for raw, in-the-trenches rock (none of Aerosmith’s later commercial dreck) and rarely, if ever, played songs.

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