The 2024 Newport Folk Festival came and went, and while it was far from the most history-making incarnation of the storied event, it was an embarrassment of artistic riches that
The third and final day of the Newport Folk Festival featured a plethora of weekend highlights, but the set by “Conan O’Brien & Real Musicians” stole the show. He was
For the hump of the weekend on Saturday at Newport Folk, the festival saw guitar duo Hermanos Gutierrez mesmerize on the Fort Stage followed by a technically troubled but consummately
The first day of the 2024 Newport Folk Festival on July 26th didn’t waste any time kicking into high gear. A Surprise set from Beck chronicled the post-war history of
My Morning Jacket’s performance at Boston’s Roadrunner on October 24th showcased a quintet not just rejuvenated but in peak form. Between their carefully crafted setlist, obvious enthusiasm, and improved musicianship,
Performing almost the entirety of his sophomore release, Struggler, Genesis Owusu put on an abstract artistic display fused with a preternatural charisma at The Sinclair in Harvard Square on October
The Sigur Rós performance at Boston’s Boch Wang Center with the 41-person Wordless Music Orchestra was the ethereal, spiritually rejuvenating live music experience that leaves your jaw on the floor
The biggest challenge that’s faced Newport Folk Festival in recent years is the burden of extraordinary expectations that it’s constantly meeting and that’s never been truer than this year, after
The 2023 Newport Folk Festival took off right out of the gate on Friday with a day of music that wasn’t only memorable, but historic, even by the standards of
As members of The Smile, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood came through Boston for a performance at Roadrunner on November 16th that dares longtime fans to wonder if the
