Arts and Entertainment

If it smells like turpentine and looks like India ink, Trumpers would probably take it before they'll take that commie socialist vaccine. Though it's been covered by scores of groups,…

There aren't all that many '90s bands still making new music, and fewer still sound like they did back then. The Johns, Flansburgh and Linnell, have a new album --…

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who died yesterday at age 80, was the unlikeliest rock star ever. He was the opposite of every rock cliche, which is more amazing when…

...the following great concerts. My musical dance card is officially full--at least through February.  I'm really psyched about these shows that I'm bringing to the Gild Hall this year: An…

The Everly Brothers were the greatest duo in rock 'n' roll history (Hall & Oates had more Top 40 singles than the Everlys' 26, but c'mon). They helped establish some…

Bo Burnham is usually classified as a comedian, but he's just as easily categorized as a musician, one in the tradition of Tom Lehrer with a tad of Kurt Weill…

From Elvis' first album, with Clover backing him. John McFee's jazzy guitar and Costello's delivery of his cryptic lyrics dominate the track. Nobody's ever come up with a satisfying explanation…

WXPN has had this tune in heavy rotation since it dropped two months ago, but I didn't hear it until this weekend. The Felice Brothers, who began with a trio…

Nanci Griffith was an accomplished singer and songwriter who broke through after moving from her native Austin to Nashville in 1985, but her greatest acclaim came with her Grammy-winning 1993…

Enough with the ersatz Bruce -- let's play some of the real thing. Springsteen recorded this track with the E Street Band in 1982, at the same Power Station sessions…

Yesterday's post about Jack Antonoff's solo project Bleachers included the tune he recorded with Bruce Springsteen, and I mentioned how much it sounded like one of Springsteen's late-period moody ballads.…