Music producer, DJ, and Brewster native Ben Woods’s song “Can’t Seem to Hide” has close to three million streams on Spotify. With warm vocals by Megan Doherty and choppy guitar […]
Music
JAZZ
What’s New at Newport?
After last year’s Covid cancellation, the festival returns
The pandemic has surely dealt a blow to jazz, which, like a mythical beast, is prone to periods of obsolescence during which nearly everyone in the kingdom declares it dead. […]
MUSICIANS
Adam Ezra Group Builds Community
A band that is greater than the sum of its parts
“There is nothing that can bring people together more effectively than music,” says Adam Ezra, who will be performing with his group at the Payomet Performing Arts Center on Friday, […]
CONCERT REVIEW
Chamber Music Festival Returns, Forte
The Escher Quartet expertly plays Schumann and Coleridge-Taylor
I’ve listened to the dirge-like second movement of Robert Schumann’s piano quintet in E-flat major — specifically, as played by the Beaux Arts Trio in their 1976 recording — so […]
INDIE PUNK
Mal Blum Returns to Live Music
Uncovering a new sound in passionate, grungy anthems
When Mal Blum performs at Truro Vineyards this Saturday, hosted by Twenty Summers, it will be their first concert since the start of the pandemic. “I turned down other gigs […]
MUSICIANS
Ray Benson’s Back in the Swing
He and Asleep at the Wheel are making up for lost time
A semi-centennial is a long time coming, but Ray Benson had to wait a bit longer to start celebrating. Asleep at the Wheel — the Western swing band that Benson […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
The Art House Steven Brinberg, “Simply Barbra,” Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., $35 Boatslip Beach Club and Resort Paige Turner hosts “Drag Bingo,” Sun., 6 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean […]
MUSICIANS
From Brooklyn With Love
Alexis P. Suter brings her booming voice to Payomet
If thunder could sing, it would sound like Alexis P. Suter. The big-voiced blues belter from Brooklyn is a singer whose power and presence bring to mind Ma Rainey and […]
INDIE PLAYLIST
Songs That Embrace Imperfection
Musical picks by Provincetown Independent staff and contributors
For this fourth installment of the Indie Playlist, contributors were asked to pick songs that are imperfect in some way. Perhaps they were recorded live. Or the singer’s voice breaks […]
MUSICIANS
There’s No Stopping Anne Stott
Her revamped show at Pilgrim House combines harmony and drama
When actor and singer-songwriter Anne Stott first arrived in Provincetown in 2007, she wasn’t expecting to stay long. She had planned a four-month winter writing retreat as an escape from […]
STATE OF PERFORMANCE
As Live Performers Return, Covid Turns Venues Inside Out
Most expect indoor seating to happen, but aren’t sure how or when
The problem, as most producers of live entertainment will tell you, is planning. Though everyone is expecting indoor entertainment to return to the Outer Cape in the next few months, […]
ALBUM REVIEW
What Is Truly Fearless About Taylor Swift
A re-recording raises ethical and artistic questions
From the start of her career 15 years ago, when she was just a 17-year-old with a cascade of blond curls writing her own lyrics about the pitfalls of high […]
INDIE PLAYLIST
Songs for a Spring Awakening
Musical picks from Independent staff and contributors
For this spring edition of the Indie Playlist, contributors chose songs traversing the genres of country, rap, disco, funk, blues, and rock. Many of them, though undeniably feel-good, express something […]
MUSICIANS
The Secret of Ken Field’s Sax Appeal
His jazz improvisations will be featured in ‘Music Without Borders’
It starts with long drawn-out notes forming a simple melody. The sound of the alto saxophone is warm and reedy. At first, you might wonder, where is this going? But […]
SELF-CONSTRUCTION
The Music of Sophie Is Transcendent
A tribute to the late queer icon
Sophie — self-styled in all capital letters — a trans DJ and producer who died on Jan. 30, 2021 at age 34 from an accidental fall in Greece, sculpted and […]