Elvis Costello

Music Festival Review: The Newport Jazz Festival at 70 — Bridging Generations and Styles

August 7, 2024
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Despite the charges of some purists, jazz was alive in the hands of a few veterans at Newport Jazz 2024, as well as newcomers sharing their own voices in the tradition.

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Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello — Proudly Flaunting his Dependability and Unpredictability

March 10, 2023
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Elvis Costello loves to visit various regions of the past but wouldn’t dare move to any of them permanently.

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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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Rock Album Review: Elvis Costello’s “The Boy Named If” — Sly and Mischievous As Ever

April 5, 2022
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For all his verbal ingenuity, rousing chord progressions, and cynical smartass wit, Elvis Costello’s always tucked a raw, beating heart beneath his jaunty shades and devil-may-care grin.

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Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello and Blondie — Fun, with Some Surprising Edge

July 25, 2019
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What could have simply passed for a nostalgic classic-rock spin turned out to be an expansive smorgasbord, frustratingly uneven at times, yet given to flashes of fervor and surprise.

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Rock Preview: A Salute to the New Wave That Followed on the Heels of the First Wave

March 26, 2019
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Dino Cattaneo saw an opportunity to mark another ruby anniversary with the help of “killer” – his word of choice – local artists.

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