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EILEN JEWELL Sea of Tears Signature 2021 Eilen Jewell’s latest is a delightful throwback to rock’s Age of Innocence, a time in which a lyric...

An odd thing happened recently: while I was teaching a class at the University of Massachusetts, a student was served with a subpoena for il...

I Need That Record! By Brendan Toller, 2008, 77 mins. This documentary takes on the distressing decline of America’s independent record sto...

BODEGA Under the Counter Mad River 1010 Members of the Scottish band Bodega—not to confused with two other bands bearing the same name—are o...

April 15 has come and gone and the right-wing whackos have had their little teabag parties. Right now they’re congratulating themselves on t...

Basketball gets the headlines, but for pure excitement it’s hard to top hockey’s Stanley Cup. This year’s odds-on favorite to win it all is ...

Katherine First and Max Cohen at the Black Sheep Deli 4/11/09 A week ago I attended a standing-room-only concert by Alisdair Fraser and Nat...