Scott McLennan
Avoiding pat formulas and enlisting unexpected aides de camp are probably the only ways that Bob Weir and his fellow founding Grateful Dead mates can avoid turning into a stale nostalgia act.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Drummer Nick Mason and his four non-Floyd bandmates turned Boston’s Orpheum Theater into a psychedelic palace.
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The Flesh Eaters have returned with renewed vitality, after it hit some troughs and sputtered to a near stop.
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This studio outing emphasizes superb ensemble playing; the result in a beguiling album in which just about every note shines.
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“I want our music to be genre-less. Actually I want it to be genre-more.”
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“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.”
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The Grateful Dead’s music is moving forward with the help of musicians who are OK with the occasional look back over their shoulders.
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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.
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Favorite Music, Popular and Beyond, of 2018
Our critics offer their musical highlights of 2018.
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