Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Scott McLennan
Concert Review: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets — The Early Brilliance of Pink Floyd
Drummer Nick Mason and his four non-Floyd bandmates turned Boston’s Orpheum Theater into a psychedelic palace.
Rock Interview: The Flesh Eaters Redux
The Flesh Eaters have returned with renewed vitality, after it hit some troughs and sputtered to a near stop.
Rock CD Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band Provides “Signs” of the Time
This studio outing emphasizes superb ensemble playing; the result in a beguiling album in which just about every note shines.
Rock Preview: Lettuce — Stirring up a “Witches Stew” at the House of Blues
“I want our music to be genre-less. Actually I want it to be genre-more.”
Rock Feature: Celebrating “The Wall” — Pink Floyd’s Version
“Five hundred years from now, people will come to that album the way that people come to Wagner and Beethoven. This is a classical piece from our era.”
Favorite Music, Popular and Beyond, of 2018
Our critics offer their musical highlights of 2018.
Music Year End Feature: The Dead Lives! — In So Many Ways
The Grateful Dead’s music is moving forward with the help of musicians who are OK with the occasional look back over their shoulders.
Music Review: Kamasi Washington — A Vibrant Taste of Heaven and Earth
Kamasi Washington’s music connected viscerally with a Royale audience that was packed with young people — or at least way younger than those normally seen at a jazz concert.
Book Review: “Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest”
K.K. Downing does not trash Judas Priest or its legacy, but he gives, from his perspective, an honest and believable assessment of the group and his role in it.