Between “Spotify Wrapped” and the omnipresence of holiday songs, the month of December is a busy time for listening. The staff at the Indie has some recommendations. Listen at tinyurl.com/47r387nk. […]
Music
MUSIC
Listen Along With Billy
Billy Hough talks about six albums that influenced him
Singer and songwriter Billy Hough estimates that, since his stage show Scream Along With Billy began its run in 2006, he and bassist Sue Goldberg have covered around 300 records. […]
MUSIC
An Indie Playlist for November
Picks by staff and contributors
Our playlists are often eclectic, as contributors are given musical free reign. This one is especially so. Listen to some unmasked rap, countertenor cabaret, Chinese pop, and classic Billy Joel […]
OPERA
Seeing Fire in a Crowded Theater
The Met returns with Terence Blanchard’s work about race, sex, and coming of age
Being back at the Metropolitan Opera in New York last Wednesday had a surreal quality. Masked faces peered across balconies through opera glasses. The sound of the orchestra warming up […]
MUSICIANS
Midge Ure Never Left
The former Ultravox frontman is still fronting
The name on the screen for our Zoom call says “James Ure.” But Ure is better known as Midge, a phonetic reversal of the name Jim. The nickname was originally […]
MUSICIANS
Melissa Ferrick Comes Out to Provincetown
The rock songwriter talks identity and Women’s Week
Melissa Ferrick is one of the few musicians who can claim to have written a “lesbian anthem.” The 2000 song “Drive,” from the album Freedom, doesn’t shy away from anything: […]
MUSIC
Boston Naturals Live for Lou
The funny thing about the Boston Naturals is that many of their gigs are on the Cape, not Boston. A lot are in Wellfleet. And that is where you will […]
MUSIC
An Indie Playlist for Fall
Thieves, vampires, and ‘Lizard Wizards’
For this new edition of the Indie Playlist, contributors were asked to write about songs they can’t get out of their heads. The results: indie rock, Australian psychedelic rock, Halloween […]
MUSICIANS
Amythyst Kiah Bares Her Soul
For the singer-songwriter, ‘The sky’s the limit’
“Wary and Strange” isn’t just the title of Amythyst Kiah’s new Rounder Records album — it’s a description of how she felt growing up in Tennessee facing issues of race, […]
MUSICIANS
Daniel Shevlin Shows His Versatility
The cellist from Well-Strung goes solo
Well-Strung, a string quartet known for its pop covers and hunky members, was founded in 2012 by second violinist Chris Marchant and producer Mark Cortale. Since the pandemic, with group […]
PHOTOSTORY
The Markets Are Alive With the Sound of Music
For some performers, it’s their first live gig since Covid
Covid kept music at bay at most of the Cape’s farmers markets last year. But this summer, guitars, fiddles, drums, and ukuleles — along with their beloved performers — were […]
MUSIC
Bosq: From Cape Cod to Colombia and Back
Ben Woods, a.k.a. Bosq, brings his beats to Twenty Summers
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 […]
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 […]
