Fans of Grateful Dead music have much reason to celebrate of late. With the affectionately (and, from a marketing perspective, cleverly) dubbed “GD50” celebration – 2015 marking what would have
[rating=4.00] Wasted on the Dream is an ode to a lost time period: a wistful love-letter to some bygone era, or perhaps simply an imaginary creation of JEFF the Brotherhood,
When the an established band sees one of its member form a side-project, sometimes the strength of that project threatens to eclipse the band from which it branched off of.
[rating=7.00] At one time, extended instrumental beauty, as is executed on Erik Deutsch’s Outlaw Jazz, dominated the airwaves. In our universe however, where a concise melody and less thoughtfulness in
Futuristic impressionists DRKWAV channeled the performance space of the Cambridge Regattabar into a canvas of deep, intricately textured jazz fusion. Two lengthy sets provided the trio of John Medeski, Adam
Los Angeles band Francisco The Man brought some heat to Allston Rock City’s Great Scott this past Sunday evening. On tour in support of their first full-length LP Loose Ends,
[rating=8.00] There’s timelessness in the music of Appalachia: the haunting sonnets of lost love, the revenge-fueled murder ballads that resonate across the ages. From the English maritime shanties that birthed
[rating=8.00] On his debut album for Paradise of Bachelors label, North Carolina’s Jake Xerxes Fussell has assembled a fascinating and often sublime collection of songs adapted from the songbook of
On a frigid night in snow-blanketed Allston Village Damien Jurado confidently held court at Brighton Music Hall, quietly taking charge and transmuting the brick walled room into the haze of
[rating=8.00] With their new, bold and powerful release, San Francisco’s Two Gallants have created an album which glares – not peers – into the abyss and draws on its contents