My end of the year extravaganza is called Favorites of 2015 because I just don’t listen to enough new music through the year to warrant...

When last we saw the boys of Barnstar!, they were dressed as a band of pirates riding the high seas of Boston Harbor and performing to a...

I won’t listen to Spotify. In fact, I am personally boycotting it. I’m sure the music streaming executives are quaking in their...

Here in the New England, we have no Bonnaroo, no Coachella, no Lollapalooza, no New Orleans Jazz Festival: summer music extravaganzas...

Hopefully, people will read this and won’t think, “wow, this guy is old and cranky.” That is not true – at least the second part. It just...

In praise of the underappreciated Joan Osborne I recently went to see a band called Trigger Hippy at a concert hall in Boston. As a band,...

Returning to the scene of the Dead 30 years later I went back with some misgivings – no Jerry Garcia will do that to even the most ardent...

“At the request of Matt and Zooey, we ask that people not use their cell phones to take pictures and video, but instead enjoy the show...

Not long ago I wrote of my quest to find a new sound, to get outside the now-overcrowded genre of “Americana” – acoustic guitar, banjo,...

Michelle Shocked changed my musical life forever – and for that I’ll be forever grateful. But I believe that the joy she gave me will...

A recent story in the Washington Post brought to light that Bruce Springsteen was using a teleprompter on stage during his recent tour as...

I recently came across a new posting on Wolfgang’s Vault of an old recording of a Miles Davis concert from 1970 at Fillmore West in San...

In our youth we spent some time doing the Grateful Dead thing. Not the full-on, traveling show to show across the country, but we did...

You knew this was coming. Paste magazine, which had struggled for some time from lack of advertising revenue, is dead… or at least the...

I’m not a big TV watcher. Luckily, “Mad Men” is on a station I get and I can’t wait for it to resume this summer. I enjoy a couple cop...

Wow! I just learned that I won the contest to name Josh Ritter’s band! From now on, they will be known as Josh Ritter and the Royal City...

There are a zillion posts and articles out there expounding on the best this and that of the decade, and personally I don’t give two wits...

Hanukkah has come and gone. There are so many great thing about this family celebration — the food, the songs (including the not-quite...

My search for great music goes far and wide, and recently we found our way to a website out of Oregon called opb.org. I’m not sure what...

Some day soon I have to visit Nashville and Memphis… but until then Sun Studios in Memphis — the home of Elvis and Stax and a boatload of...