Music Festival
FOTOBOM: BOSTON CALLING DAY 2 PHOTOS
FOTOBOM: BOSTON CALLING DAY 1 PHOTOS
DIG THIS: THE TOWN AND THE CITY FESTIVAL, MARISSA NADLER/GLENN JONES, NON-EVENT’S WATERWORKS 2023
FRI/SAT 04.28-29
The Town and City Festival
If anyone has been to Raleigh for Hopscotch Festival, that concept of a sprawling number (in sound and total) of acts spread out around various stages and clubs in one city has also been used for several years for Lowell’s Town and the City Festival. The scope of the weekend is heavily focused ...
FOTOBOM: NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL, 2022
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 ...