Articles

  • 1 week ago | wbur.org | Amelia Mason |Lukas Harnisch |Victoria Wasylak |Noah Schaffer

    Left: Cover art for DeevoDaGenius, Kil The Artist and BLUEHILLBILL's "Bleu Magic" (Courtesy Jackson Hallaws and Chop The Head). Center from top: Album art for Kim Perlak and Francisco Mela's "Spaces" (courtesy); Art for Pile's single "Born at Night" (Courtesy Mark Lapriore); and single art for Tuxis Giant's "Last Laugh" (courtesy). Right: Album art for Suriel's "Pressure" (courtesy).

  • 2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Noah Schaffer

    Although Mexican-American musical giants Los Tigres del Norte made their Boch Center Wang Theatre debut in 2022, their return to that venue on Friday will be under very different circumstances for the norteño band and its audience. That’s because Los Tigres have been preeminent musical chroniclers of the immigrant and migrant experience since their 1977 recording, “Vivan los Mojados” (“Long Live the Wetbacks”). Their lyrics tell stories of hard work, family, homesickness, and resilience.

  • 3 weeks ago | wbur.org | Noah Schaffer

    When Ward Hayden & The Outliers were driving across the Midwest on a tour, they decided to kill time in the van by looking into Aaron Lewis, one of their few Massachusetts country music peers.

  • 1 month ago | wbur.org | Noah Schaffer

    The firing of a famed Berklee College of Music department leader, who for years repeatedly shared antisemitic social media posts, has ignited conversation over hiring practices at the elite school. Berklee College of Music fired its brass department chair, Nicholas Payton, in April, just months after promoting him into the role last fall. Payton confirmed his termination to WBUR last week. A spokesperson for Berklee confirmed he no longer works for the school.

  • 1 month ago | wbur.org | Noah Schaffer

    When the MC known as MaceyOMaze was growing up in Fields Corner, his father would play classic hip-hop in the family van. The lyrics typically detailed life in hip-hop capitals like New York and Los Angeles. But one day, a song called “I Got To Have It” came on and MaceyOMaze, then a 12-year-old aspiring rapper, heard something in the lyrics that astonished him. “At first, I was like ‘Oh, this is dope.’ And then I heard them say ‘Roxbury.’ And I was like, ‘Wait a minute — this rapper's from Boston?