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Fuse CD Review: Underground Music Round-Up

July 2, 2014
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Here are a handful of underground/alternative music releases worth your consideration.

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Jazz Review: The 35th Annual Montreal International Jazz Festival Starts Off Huge

July 2, 2014
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If you can’t make the Montreal International Jazz Festival this time, put it on your bucket list.

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Jazz Feature: Teaching By Example – An Afternoon with Drummer Ra-Kalam Bob Moses

July 1, 2014
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One of drummer Ra-Kalam Bob Moses’s most resonant teachings was that it is better to find the infinite possibilities within a single idea than to keep changing ideas every ten seconds.

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Visual Arts Review: Ian Hamilton Finlay — Revolution Without a Manifesto

July 1, 2014
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His art’s sunny, unhurried elegance, so at odds with its message, suggests that Finlay is taking a Swiftian rhetorical stance.

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Jazz Review: Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion — A Taste of Genius

June 30, 2014
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If drummer Ginger Baker’s staring into the abyss, he’s doing it with defiance and a good beat.

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Concert Review: The Boston Choral Ensemble’s “Cosmic Journey” — An Out-of-This-World Experience

June 30, 2014
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What I’ll remember most is how the BCE’s various choral pieces seemed custom-made for the Hayden Planetarium’s celestial projections, and how, for an hour, the so-called real world faded away.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 29, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Film Review: Gore Vidal — A Memorable Gadfly That Stung the Left and the Right

June 29, 2014
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The haughty, witty Gore Vidal, my role model, was never happier than when going against the madding American populace.

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Film Review: A Superior “Lift”

June 28, 2014
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Lift explores so many divergent issues that it would have been easy for the filmmakers to only give lip service to problems it raises. Thankfully, that is not the case.

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Visual Arts Review: In New Haven — Five West Coast Artists and William Bailey

June 27, 2014
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Had Bay Area Figuration taken its place in the canon, we might not find ourselves in the tiresome situation we’re in at the moment.

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