Released in 1984, “Medicine Show” marked a tougher sound for the band and a wider scope in frontman Steve Wynn’s songwriting, ...

Only a handful of local bands can fill up a venue as large as Boston’s 3,500-capacity Roadrunner. Couch is one of them. The group has brought its fusion of pop, soul and funk across the country and ...

The Pixies, with Momma, MGM Music Hall, July 18, 2025. The Pixies kicked off the first of their two nights back home in Boston with an ode to the “era of college rock” – their final two albums ...

Boston's rise from near obscurity in the latter part of 1976 entered the rock 'n' roll lexicon long ago. Their story is familiar to anyone with a knowledge of popular music history: how MIT mechanical ...

Singer Ryan H. Walsh wanted to go big on Hallelujah the Hills’ new project, a 54-track quadruple album organized like a deck of playing cards with four suits of 13 songs each, plus a pair of ...

Album covers clockwise from top left: Otis Shanty's "Lowballer" (Courtesy Sadye Bobbette/Otis Shanty); Ethan Setiawan's "Encyclopedia Mandolinnica" (Art by Mike Cox, design by Louise Bichan); Najee ...

Boston feels like “a second home” to the band, and "every time we rolled through it felt like a friends and family event." ...

In 1982, Aerosmith released an album called “Rock in a Hard Place.” You likely don’t remember it, if you’ve heard of it at all, and for good reason. It was the nadir of the Boston band’s career. By ...