Music

Laughter is the first sound cutting through the tape hiss on Quitters, the sophomore offering from L.A.-based singer-songwriter and guitarist Christian Lee Hutson. It...

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David A. Jaffe’s new Violin Concerto grew out of a friendship between the composer and a Colorado violinist. Karen Bentley Pollick, who lives in Evergreen,...

Programs featuring string quartets by sister and brother Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Jan. 12-13) and Felix Mendelssohn (May 3-4) will form the bookends of the...

What the hell is Matt Costa doing on Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records? Everything about his music should be the anti-Jack Johnson, the personification of California’s oxymoronic laid-back image. Costa’s work on his latest album, Mobile Chateau, is laced with ’60s ...

Nicholas Carthy describes La traviata as “the perfect Verdi opera.” Based on the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas, La Dame aux Camélias (The lady of...

Glass Animals’ new album emerged from Joe Seaward’s ‘miraculous’ recovery after head injury

It’s fine to call Ruthie Foster a blues artist. She only has seven Blues Music Awards sitting on the shelf at home and has...

The lights, the sounds, the movements. The palpable energy radiating through a crowd. A deeply personal experience transcending the self, becoming a collective one,...

‘Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme),’ by The Orielles Though released in February, “Space Samba” screams summer from the first sun-bleached, flanged-out strum of Henry Carlyle...

Since 2004, Session Americana has been a rotating collective of some of the best, albeit least well known, players in American folk. The Boston-based...

Devin Patrick Hughes had some tough choices to make. The conductor of the Boulder Symphony wanted to do a concert celebrating music inspired by Shakespeare,...