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Music Review: “Solid Sound Festival 2019” — A Far-Reaching Family Affair

July 2, 2019
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Wilco went all-in this year for a personal bond, inviting internet-culled winners onstage for live-band karaoke with the group.

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Television Review: “True Detective: Night Country” — In the Bleak Midwinter

January 13, 2024
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When the identities of the guilty are finally revealed in this new season of a superb “True Detective,” it is terrifying and glorious.

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Music Preview: Navigating the Headwaters of the Third Stream

February 12, 2014
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NEC is closed tonight but much of the repertoire on this program is also scheduled for a concert on March 6.

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Concert Review: In Austin, Texas — Three Major Acts of State-of-the-Art Progressive Jazz

October 2, 2024
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It was all intense, bracing, and urgent jazz in Austin last week. I don’t know how all y’all spoiled New Yorkers keep your heads from exploding.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 16, 2023
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This week’s poem: Joanna Fuhrman’s “If My Mother Returns from the Dead”

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Jazz Album Review: The Complete Massey Hall Recordings — The Legendary Concert Never Sounded So Good

January 22, 2024
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I heartily recommend this Craft Recording, even if (perhaps especially if) you have owned the LP version from (almost) a half century ago.

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Doc Talk: The Boston Baltic Film Festival — Studies in Brilliance

February 25, 2025
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A hero of his times: celebrating Latvian pioneering documentarian Juris Podnieks.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Guitar Players Rejoice — Cherished Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery Sessions Reissued as High-End LPs

March 14, 2025
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Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass are master jazz guitarists who sound nothing alike.

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Author Interview: Will Birch Talks about Nick Lowe — Singer, Songwriter, Producer, Bassist, and Cult Figure

September 30, 2019
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Will Birch’s biography Cruel to Be Kind effortlessly details the six decade career of rocker Nick Lowe.

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Film Review: 1932’s “Million Dollar Legs” — Iconoclastic Euphoria

February 17, 2019
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Does the movie have anything to say about our zeitgeist? Well, the very entertaining cabinet-meeting sequence shows that chamber to be a place of male posturing, humiliation, sado-masochism, duplicity, and, finally, abject sycophancy.

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