Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
The Who, Panic at the Disco, TV on the Radio, Cheech + Chong, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | August 05, 2008

Jenny Scheinman gets herself together
Jenny Scheinman is such an unassuming, modest musician that it’s easy to underestimate the radicalness of her two new CDs, Jenny Scheinman and Crossing the Field .
By JON GARELICK | June 02, 2008

Going on sale: April 25, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Feist, Rooney, the Black Angels, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | April 24, 2008

Darien Brahms + American Music Club

Music seen at SPACE Gallery, April 21, 2008
Not to diminish where she is right now, but Darien Brahms would make one hell of a novelty dive-bar act in 20 years.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | April 23, 2008

Rockin’ ’n’ writin’

Don Hammontree’s Baptized in Formaldehyde
Fall River artiste Don Hammontree has done his share of recording, with a couple of solo discs out since debuting in 2003.
By BOB GULLA | April 10, 2008

Always a bridesmaid

But Kathleen Edwards steps forward on her third album
Asking for Flowers is the slickest album yet from Kathleen Edwards — the Canadian alt-country songwriter frequently heralded as the next Lucinda Williams — and her most raw.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | March 19, 2008

O, Canada!

Cowboy Junkies, k.d. lang, and Kathleen Edwards are not hockey pucks
You’d be forgiven for assuming that nothing’s been going on in Canada for the last few years beyond the interconnected shenanigans of that country’s indie-rock elite.
By MIKAEL WOOD | February 19, 2008

Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino

Vanguard
This packed two-disc set gathers all the usual suspects and more for a Tipitina’s Foundation project to rebuild Domino’s Ninth Ward neighborhood in New Orleans.
By CLEA SIMON | October 22, 2007

Putumayo Presents Americana

Putumayo
Most of what you’ll find here is about as appealing as the disc’s candy-colored cover, which has got to be in the running for one of the ugliest of the year.
By WERNER TRIESCHMANN | September 18, 2007

Revving it up

The Wrong Reasons tough it out; plus, Machines with Magnets
The Wrong Reasons have mustered a gallant comeback, and this time it’s for all the right reasons.
By BOB GULLA | September 04, 2007

Anat, Elvis, and Jenny

Looking ahead to Newport Jazz and Folk, and to Jenny Scheinman
In the wake of a single solo album on her own label in 2005, Anat Cohen is suddenly everywhere.
By JON GARELICK | July 30, 2007

Long Journeyman

Willie Nile, Club Passim, June 22, 2007
Willie Nile may not be a household name, even among serious musos.
By JIM SULLIVAN | June 25, 2007

New Orleans notes

A city holds fast to its soul
This year as last, the refrain at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was: “We’re back.”
By JON GARELICK | May 08, 2007

Not quite phenomenal

Ruthie Foster, Johnny D's, March 28, 2007
Fans of deep-roots blues and soul are always looking for new heroes and heroines.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | April 03, 2007

Still going strong

Lucinda Williams, Orpheum Theatre, March 24, 2007
“It’s not that often that a 54-year-old woman achieves her greatest success,’’ said Lucinda Williams from the Orpheum stage last Saturday.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 27, 2007

Crash course

Cindy Bullens gets down to business at USM
To move up in the world of music, one key is what you know; the other is whom you know.
By LISA CRAIG | February 21, 2007

Boston music news: February 23, 2007

Notes on Session Americana and Dispatch's "Zimbabwe Sessions"
“The band started out as a kind of a lark,” says Ry Cavanaugh, singer/guitarist/ringleader of Session Americana.
By JIM SULLIVAN | February 20, 2007

Having more fun

Lucinda Williams goes West
By the time Car Wheels on a Gravel Road came out, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris, and Tom Petty had all recorded Williams’s songs.
By MATT ASHARE | February 13, 2007

Ruthie Foster

The Phenomenal | Blue Corn
Usually when an artist does a makeover on his or her music, the results are disastrous, but this 42-year-old Texas singer-songwriter is an exception.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | February 06, 2007

Norah Jones

Not Too Late | Blue Note
No, Norah Jones hasn’t turned into Lucinda Williams.
By JON GARELICK | February 06, 2007

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