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What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? performs “Medusa: Reclaiming the Myth”at the Boston Museum of Science’s Charles Hayden Planetarium, August 2019. (Jonathan Beckley photo)
Music Greg CookJanuary 26, 2020 0

This #MeToo ‘Medusa’ Isn’t The Gorgon You’ve Been Told About

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 →

Willie Alexander plays his keyboard in his Gloucester home, July 15, 2017. (Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookNovember 1, 2019 0

The Secret Art Of The Godfather Of Boston Punk, Willie Alexander

“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 →

Lovely Hoffman and Pier Lamia Porter rehearse "Marie and Rosetta." (Courtesy photo)
Music Greg CookOctober 15, 2019 0

Rediscovering African-American Rock And Roll Pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

“Rebelling against constraint, she let her voice out in ‘Rock Me’ and ‘That’s All,’ and left the house ecstatic,” The New York Times reported when Sister Rosetta Tharpe performed during…Continue Reading →

Environmental Encroachment from Chicago performs in the Honk Parade, Oct. 13, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)
Music Greg CookOctober 13, 2019 0

Photos: Honk Parade From Somerville To Cambridge

Honk!—the infectious street party and festival of activist street bands—paraded from Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge this afternoon and we where honored to be there. Photos…Continue Reading →

Cliff Notez performs at Hojoko at the Verb Hotel, May 18, 2018. (Greg Cook)
Music Greg CookMay 22, 2019 0

As Boston Continues To Exclude Hip Hop, ‘Boston Answering’ Aims To ‘Uplift Some Of The City’s Finest Local Artists’

“A cultural response manifested into a show” is how this Saturday’s “Boston Answering” show at the Strand Theatre in Boston is described by its organizers, Boston booking and audio and…Continue Reading →

Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band performs at Somerville's Quincy Street Open Space as part of the annual PorchFest, May 13, 2018. (Greg Cook)
Music Greg CookMay 7, 2019 0

Somerville PorchFest: Wonderland’s Totally Biased Guide To This Saturday’s Music Fest

Somerville’s annual PorchFest is part hootenanny, part a giant open studios for bands. More than 200 bands acts are scheduled to perform on porches, in backyards and in parks from…Continue Reading →

Rehearsal for “The Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore” and “A Medieval Bestiary” performed by Metropolitan Chorale and Puppet Showplace Theater at First Church, Cambridge, May 3, 2019. (Greg Cook)
Music Greg CookMay 4, 2019 0

Unicorns! Gorgons! Manticores! In Metropolitan Chorale’s Collaboration With Puppet Showplace Theater

Unicorns, gorgons and other fantastical creatures abound in the Metropolitan Chorale’s performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore” and R. Murray Schafer’s “A Medieval Bestiary”…Continue Reading →

Jackie Shane, 1967. (Numero Group)
Music Greg CookFebruary 23, 2019 0

Transgender Soul Music Pioneer Jackie Shane Recorded Her Biggest Hit In 1960s Boston

Jackie Shane—the electrifying soul singer, black cult heroine, and transgender pioneer—died this week in Nashville at age 78. “Any Other Way,” a box set of Shane’s music released in 2017…Continue Reading →

“Space is the Place Film Still,” 1974, by Jim Newman. “Sun Ra and his mysterious mirror-faced companion in Golden Gate Park. The photo is from the opening sequence of the film in which Sun Ra wanders a lush unspecified planet and outlines his theory on how we can move through space propelled by music, a theoretical way of travel he calls ‘trans-molecularization.’” (Courtesy Portland Art Museum)
Music Greg CookJanuary 23, 2019 0

The Earth Expedition Of Sun Ra, Jazz Visionary And Afrofuturist Pioneer

“There’s no limit to the things that you can do,” go the lyrics to jazz visionary Sun Ra’s “Space Is the Place.” “This exhibition highlights Sun Ra’s idea of an…Continue Reading →

Cliff Notez performs at Hojoko at the Verb Hotel, May 18, 2018. (Greg Cook)
Music Greg CookDecember 16, 2018 0

Winners Of 2018 Boston Music Awards

Below are the winners of the 2018 Boston Music Awards, which were announced at Boston’s House of Blues on Dec. 12, 2018. Artist of the Year: Cousin Stizz New Artist…Continue Reading →

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