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Between Pinegrove and John Prine, Newport Folk Festival ended Sunday with plenty of fanfare, but there's a problem no one wants to talk about and it's getting harder to justify.
Once again, the best parts of Newport Folk Festival came in the shape of a story, and Saturday's lineup treated us to some of the best.
Friday at Newport Folk Festival reminded attendees and musicians alike that family-friendly festivals aren't always what you expect.
Black Widow Yoga brings relaxation to new levels by setting her ONCE Somerville yoga classes to the music of Sleep, Iron Maiden, and Elder.
The empathy of Allston five-piece People Like You stretches from their new record, Verse, all the way to their lives outside music.
I will comment on racism, though. And on the courage it takes to stand up to the mobs still among us who reject multiculturalism and denigrate those who don’t look and act like them.
Yoga and the restaurant industry go together like booze and the restaurant industry
The Laughing Grass has already held a soft open party and smokefest, and Madison says after a little legal gray zone blowback from the town, everything is all set for the trial run.
Bay State Pushes Back on Efforts to Curtail Consumer Protections
"In the modern-day world we see photography as very quick, very instantaneous and immediate. But in reality this kind of photography takes a lot of patience, a lot of setup, different lenses and lighting that make it more complicated. "
On July 12, the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality ...
"One day here the office could be a beach, and on another day it could be the Grand Canyon."
A Q+A with David Gessner about his high-flying Frisbee tome
Quincy spot has the best cold treat you’ve tried all summer
"Wait, homeless people doing this for the community, not community service?”
These artists transformed the face of Downtown Lynn—now go and check out their work
Despite having the ticket, ICE holds that Rodriguez did not comply with their orders—even though he was not given a date to exit the country.
The three day festival is officially introducing the Museum Stage as a fourth venue to accommodate the growing number of impromptu jam sessions and surprise performances and is once again hosted by Chris Funk from The Decemberists, with J. P. Harris filling in on Friday.
So you’re tooling around town on a summer evening with nothing to do, but you’re sick of playing Punch Buggy—the ancient game where you shout “PUNCH BUGGY” and the color of any Volkswagen Beetle you see… followed by a (mock) punch to whatever part ...
Indie rocker icons Spoon talk sex dreams, superheroes, and shooting guns with questions inspired by their song titles.
The pre-show anticipation of the masses hung just as heavy in the air as the hot, sticky humidity of the summer evening. I’ve not seen the Xfinity Center lawn so packed in quite some time, and people were ready to cut loose with Harris, Murray, Dickinson and the rest of the Iron Maiden ...
"The first thing we try to understand is the flexibility with the artist or the band. It’s a unique hall; it’s tuned for orchestral music, so some band or artist is going to have a different kind of performance because the space allows for that."
Offensive comments and controversy aside, these hosts are winning in the ratings, proving that there is indeed a massive audience for such bigoted rhetoric in Greater Boston.
In a rare Boston appearance–their first in seven years–the genre-defying Gorillaz brought their full-band roadshow to Boston with a handful of digital guests.
On a Tuesday morning, the brightly painted café was never annoyingly crowded, the background soundtrack consisting of lively Spanish-language music rather than chatter.
