Blake Maddux

Featured in: Favicon

boston.com Favicon

avclub.com Favicon

wbur.org

wickedlocal.com Favicon

newsbreak.com Favicon

thesmartset.com Favicon

artsfuse.org Favicon

rockandrollglobe.com Favicon

thesomervilletimes.com

Articles

Jon Anderson Geeks Out

Sep 23, 2024 | rockandrollglobe.com | Blake Maddux

To all but maybe a few fans, the first things that come to mind at the mention of the band Yes are the voice and visage of co-founder and longtime lead singer Jon Anderson. Thus, it seems bizarre to refer to him as Yes’s “former” vocalist. However, he has not been a member of the Yes roster — the current one of which recently toured with Deep Purple — since 2004.
Squeeze and Boy George bring out the classics at Boch Center

Sep 14, 2024 | boston.com | Blake Maddux

Concert Reviews The night was undoubtedly one of joyous nostalgia for the paying customers, but the performers demonstrated that they are living in the present. Just over a year after they headlined the Boch Center with The Psychedelic Furs, Squeeze topped a double bill at the same venue last night with an even more popular British act of the 1980s, Boy George. The second act to play such a bill is generally considered the de facto headliner between the two otherwise equals.
12 must-see smaller-venue shows this fall

Sep 4, 2024 | boston.com | Blake Maddux

Rock, rap, pop, soul, country, and folk are all on the menu in Somerville, Cambridge, Medford, Allston, and Boston in the coming three months. Best rock/alternative/indie concertsUnlike former bandmate Juliana Hatfield, head Lemonhead Evan Dando hasn't exactly been cranking out fresh, consistently great material this millennium. In fact, he has only two collections of covers in the past 18 years.
A Year that Defined a Lifetime

Jul 25, 2024 | thesmartset.com | Blake Maddux

Any given year of one’s time roaming the earth unavoidably has some effect on who they are as a person. It is perhaps especially so when a person has just turned 14, been forced the previous year to swap daily life with his family for the company of strangers and is on the cusp of being exposed to what will more than half a century later still be universally recognized as some of the most revolutionary and unique popular music ever committed to tape.
A Year that Defined a Lifetime

Jul 22, 2024 | thesmartset.com | Blake Maddux

Author: Blake Maddux Blake Maddux is a freelance journalist who writes about nonfiction and music for several Boston-area publications, most frequently The Arts Fuse and Boston.com. A native Ohioan, he lives in Salem, MA, with his wife, LeAnne, and six-year-old twins, Elliot Samuel and Xander Jackson. You may follow him on Threads, Instagram, Facebook, and X. §
Boston’s beloved Buffalo Tom comes roaming back with new material

Jun 27, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Blake Maddux

The trio will headline the Lowell Summer Music Series on Saturday while promoting their new album, "Jump Rope."Buffalo Tom returns to the area with a show in Lowell this Saturday. Photo by Kelly Davidson StudioDuring the band’s 1988-1998 heyday, Buffalo Tom — which formed at UMass Amherst in 1986 — was a fan and critical favorite to comparative degrees in the U.S. and the UK.
Musician Interview: Yes's Jon Anderson on Teaming Up with The Band Geeks

Jun 19, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Blake Maddux |Bill Marx

By Blake Maddux“I’m going to be 80 in October, and what a way to spend your 80th year on the planet, to be able to go out and do rock ‘n’ roll shows everywhere!”As I was leaving a show in Royale a couple of months ago, a woman asked her friend who Jon Anderson was. She had obviously seen the marquee advertising his upcoming show at Shubert Theatre. Her friend answered that he was a member of the progressive rock group Yes. “Would I know any of their songs?” she inquired.
Author Interview: Tiya Miles on Empowering the Memory of Harriet Tubman

Jun 14, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Blake Maddux

By Blake MadduxMany of us think of Harriet Tubman as a lone heroic figure. But the truth is she was never alone; she did things that other people did not do. Dr. Tiya Miles currently serves as the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University, from which she collected her bachelor’s in Afro-American Studies in 1992.
15 must-see concerts at Boston's smaller venues for summer 2024

May 30, 2024 | boston.com | Blake Maddux

Concerts Enjoy big artists in small places like Big Night Live, Brighton Music Hall, Royale, Paradise Rock Club, and The Sinclair this June through August. Let's get small! Here are 15 concerts worth seeing at Greater Boston's smaller venues this June-August, organized by genre.
Author Interview: Talking with Award-Winning Poet and Essayist Maggie Smith

May 30, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Blake Maddux |Maggie Smith

By Blake MadduxThe inciting action of Maggie Smith’s moving memoir is the discovery of her then-husband’s infidelity. For as long as I have known her, Maggie Smith has aspired to be a poet. And I have known her since we were students together at Ohio Wesleyan University between 1995 and 1998.