Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returned yesterday, after taking a year off from live performances to help stem the spread of covid. Bands from around greater Bsoton…Continue Reading →
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returns Saturday, Oct. 9, after taking a year off from live performances to help stem the spread of covid. This weekend, “bands,…Continue Reading →
“Big news from Jamaica Plain Porchfest,” read the headline of the email that arrived at the end of 2020. “Mindy Fried and Marie Ghitman, co-founders of Jamaica Plain Porchfest, are…Continue Reading →
“Providence is my home and I plan to live and die here at the moment,” Roz Raskin, who fronts the “cosmic pop” band Nova One, told me via email in…Continue Reading →
Once, the Somerville music lounge and ballroom, “will not reopen” at its current venue, owner JJ Gonson announced today. (Read her full announcement below.) Launched in 2015 in the former…Continue Reading →
This year’s “ArtBeat” festival from the Somerville Arts Council adapts to coronavirus by expanding to a week of surprise pop-up events and virtual performances from July 10 to 18. Danielle…Continue Reading →
“It is with a heavy heart today that I announce that Great Scott will not reopen,” according to a message from Tim Philbin, the Boston rock club’s long-time manager, posted…Continue Reading →
The music video begins with Nathaniel Hefferman, dressed in a Honk T-shirt, blowing the opening notes of Deee-Lite’s “Groove Is In The Heart” on saxophone. Then a drummer in red…Continue Reading →
One of the terrible things about the way the story of Medusa is usually told is that her iconic snake hair and petrifying visage are a punishment—for being the victim…Continue Reading →
“It’s here. It’s life. It’s everything. Bam!” Willie “Loco” Alexander tells me as we tour a retrospective of his paintings and collages at the Manship Artist Residency + Studios in…Continue Reading →