Sleeping after a concert is always difficult for me; the music from the show runs through my head, almost like reliving what I heard. So ...

You have to make the most of Mondays, especially the dismal ones in April. Luckily for us, the Submarines came around just at the right t...

There’s a lot you can miss in a short span of time when you are trying to get your teen through the college-choosing process. In the last...

Lake Street Dive just wants you to have fun. I could end my review right there and you would have enough information to get you to go see...

It’s not often that I feature a hit song in a Lyrically Speaking entry. It’s not that I have anything against hits, it’s just that usuall...

I found Bonnie Raitt’s “Give It Up”  among a bunch of albums that my Mom had in her condo, shortly after she and my Dad divorced when I w...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/modernacoustic/sets/72157626231916537/ Grace Potter the band has arrived! This is the third time I’ve seen G...

I’ll just come right out and say it: This is the best Lucinda Williams album since “Essence.” The songs on “Blessed,” her 10th studio alb...

The Submarines, Love Notes/Letter Bombs Out May 5 The first thing that becomes clear on the new album, “Love Notes/Letter Bombs,’’ is tha...

When you really are in the mood to “listen” to music put on a Low Anthem record. That is to say, don’t put it on as background music or w...

Musically, a new year generally starts off slow. The Northeast is in a deep, dark, snowy, cold, crappy-weather funk. (Did I mention snowy...

I’m not sure how I ended up with the album “Decade.” I think I bought it from a used record store on one of the many excursions into Camb...

What should one expect from a Valentine’s Day Brawl? Love, roses,  a nice slow-dance sax solo, and of course some heartache because this ...

With a new album, “Smart Flesh,” ready to hit the streets on Feb. 22, I figured it would be nice to give some kudos to Low Anthem’s surel...

When a CD release party is billed as an Extravaganza, you expect just a little bit more than a band onstage running through their new son...

In our last CD review, of the new Decemberists album, I wondered how the band’s longtime fans would react to their new sound. Well, I can...

The second show of my weekend concert extravaganza was quite different than the first. Instead of the sold out large-theater setting of t...

My 17-year-old daughter and I both love the Decemberists, but I suspect for different reasons. She loves their wildly dramatic flair, the...

It almost feels like cheating to pick a Beatles song for this feature.  I mean, just because everyone knows every note, every lyric by he...

It’s easy to hear the appeal of Lori McKenna’s songs to country music stars and fans: the trials and tribulations, thoughts and actions o...