The more the merrier, and the Big Mean Sound Machine might have as many as 10 people onstage while they whip up a churning Afrobeat-inspired groove...
There are adventurous, non-mainstream jazz artists creating music, right now, and the people behind the Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares concert series...
No matter how cold it might get on Saturday night, you’re guaranteed some friendly perspiration at “The Strange Ones’ Ball,” brought to you by...
“Give the gift of music” a popular ad campaign in the early 1980s suggested, but in the Valley, especially during this holiday season, music does...
When my dad was a kid, a lively crowd of Italian relatives would gather at his grandfather’s house on Sundays, get out the guitars and mandolins...
Vocalist/songwriter Syd Straw only pops up in interesting places, whether it was on a record in the ‘80s with The Golden Palominos, or on TV in the...
Ron Howard’s lively documentary “Eight Days a Week” brought a new wave of Beatlemania through the Valley this year, and if you were one of the rapt...
It began with three friends. Mild-mannered, maybe. Until the curly-haired one got behind the drums and let loose like a cross between Keith Moon...
Beth Orton feels like an old friend, because people always asked about her during my late-’90s days of working in a record store. She was an artist...
Many musicians sing the songs of others, and though that’s been a part of local vocalist/guitarist Grayson Ty’s livelihood, he’s now putting his...
On this Thanksgiving day, here’s something for which I’m thankful — a happening that’s also a hideaway, a respite from the tumult, a place to...
Getting a friend or loved one to experience your favorite art with you — a movie, a song, a live performance — is one of the best things, but like...