While toiling away at the next issue of Modern Acoustic (tentatively scheduled for early April), I’ve been spending my late nights with a...

Everyone knows the greats – Clapton, Page and Hendrix. But we asked Modern Acoustic subscribers to tells us – aside the guitar gods – who...

When we were kids growing up in the ’70s guitar-based rock was king. Bands like the Allman Brothers, Little Feat and Led Zeppelin fist-pu...

I recently caught Michelle Shocked playing at Club Passim in Cambridge. As I stated earlier in this space, I go a long way back with Mich...

Thao Nguyen, “We Brave Bee Stings and All” From the opening moments of the first song on the album “We Brave Bee Stings and All,” you wil...

We’ve come to expect a rockin’ show by Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, and last night at the Lizard Lounge she did not disappoint. A...

What an inspiring and incredibly fun night of music by Josh Ritter and a couple of his bandmates, Sam and Zack, at Passim on Tuesday. The...

Last year, my sister came up with a fun idea for our family Hanukkah celebration, which usually includes a large group of people coming t...

Robert Plant-Alison Krauss, “Raising Sand” We’re sure that anyone who has heard about the new Robert Plant-Alison Krauss album, “Raising ...

Since its inception, Modern Acoustic has always prided itself on keeping readers informed about great music. Our goal is that you would r...

It’s easy to forget sometimes – as you pay your money, sit in nice seats, and listen to polished bands – about where it all starts for mu...

I just woke up after back-to-back nights of Josh Ritter and Co. at the Somerville Theatre. The tunes are still deep in my subconscious, m...

Erin McKeown, “Lafayette” We’ve seen Erin live a bunch of times and it’s always fun. But one thing we always wished for was seeing her sp...

I arrived at Ithaca College in 1979 with a boxful of Lynyrd Skynryd, Tom Petty and Pink Floyd albums. Two years later, when my college ro...

A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time at the Boston Folk Festival, a great event on the campus of UMass/Boston. It was nice to see act...

MAKING HER MOVE Sarah Borges, “Diamonds in the Dark” When Sarah Borges signed with Sugar Hill Records, she joined Americana stalwarts Jam...

Labels. We’ve been thinking a lot about them lately. It’s just a fact that everyone gets labeled: He can’t hit a fastball; she’s reclusiv...