Music Festival
FOTOBOM: WILCO’S SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL
For the seventh time since 2010, Wilco moved their headquarters temporarily from Chicago to North Adams, MA and kicked off another edition of Solid Sound. As Tweedy sings in “Outtasite (Outta Mind),” here they come again and they’re ...
NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL 2021
“I buy the groceries, you make the meal.” Words from Jay Sweet during his Q & A session with Adia Victoria as part of her Call and Response podcast, a great analogy that underlines the community ...
PREVIEW: NEWPORT FOLK FEST 2021 (AKA FOLK ON, TWICE)

Newport Folk Festival takes on a different configuration for 2021.
SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL 2019 – WILCO, THE FEELIES, COURTNEY BARNETT, THE MINUS 5, CATE LE BON, TORTOISE, JONATHAN RICHMAN, MDOU MOCTAR, ETC
Before I start, can we just talk about Nels’ guitar solo in “Impossible Germany” for a minute? I think it changed something deep inside of me, on the molecular level. That Cline is a brilliantly fearless and inventive guitar player has been well established but his 300-odd ...
FOTOBOM: BOSTON CALLING 2019
Humans love to use base ten as a function of assigning milestones- is it because we’ve got ten fingers? As such, the 10th anniversary of any particular event carries some additional weight, earned or not. And here we are at the tenth rendition of Boston Calling. Has it delivered on its ...
PREVIEW: DESERTFEST NYC
FOTOBOM: HUICHICA EAST
While Folk Yeah has been putting on Huichica West for a solid decade, their efforts on the eastern side of the country are relatively new. This past weekend was the third event held at the amazingly bucolic setting of Chaseholm Farm, nestled in the rolling fields and scattered forests of the ...
PREVIEW: HUICHICA EAST
Summer is a great time to escape the stifling heat and crowds of the city, and many Bostonians do precisely that. Often the directions heading out of the city are southward to the Cape, or perhaps north, either to the stony coastline of Maine or the mountains of New Hampshire or Vermont. This ...
NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL: THE FESTS THEY ARE A CHANGIN’

How New England's beloved music festival is raising the bar for other festivals across the country.