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Music

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Restaurants

Desnuda Cocina & Bar Brings Music and Vibes to Tremont Street

Music lovers have an all-new spot to sip, dine, and listen with the recent opening of Desnuda Cocina & Bar in Boston’s South End. It’s […]

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Restaurants

There’s a New ‘Listening Lounge’ in the South End

Down a winding staircase from the Revolution Hotel lobby awaits the South End’s Spy Bar, a new music-focused spot that’s “like a ’70s lounge meets […]

Arts & Entertainment

Susan Tedeschi Brings the Tedeschi Trucks Band (and Her Signature Telecaster) to Boston

In 1993, Susan Tedeschi spotted her dream guitar on the racks at Cambridge Music Center: a teal Fender American Standard Telecaster. She went ahead and […]

Arts & Entertainment

The World’s Greatest Art Thief Is Alive and Well (And Still Casing the Joint)

If you don’t have a theory about who robbed the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, are you even really a Bostonian? Thirty-four years ago this month, […]

Arts & Entertainment

Meet Noah Kahan, the Voice of an Emotionally Evolved Generation

Noah Kahan thinks everyone here should be in therapy. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter is onstage at Boston Calling Music Festival, a 10-minute drive from his Watertown […]

Arts & Entertainment

Singer Chelsea Cutler Is Afraid of Sharks, Thinks Boston Can Do No Wrong

Before singer-songwriter Chelsea Cutler hit the stage of Boston Calling 2023 on Friday afternoon—clad in a white and red Patriots Jersey, her 25 or so […]

Arts & Entertainment

The Best of Boston Calling 2023

After a spell of heartbreaking cancellations, Boston’s marquee music festival returned to its full, monumental glory for its tenth year. Here are some of the […]

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Arts & Entertainment

What You Need to Know Before Seeing Taylor Swift at Gillette Stadium

How long before the show to get there? If you’re one of the lucky ones who got the nearly-instantly-sold-out train tickets, you don’t have to […]

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Arts & Entertainment

Where to Find Concerts under $30 around Boston

It’s no secret Boston can be a pretty expensive city to live in. But don’t despair: there are still ways to have fun around here […]

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Arts & Entertainment

The Kelly Clarkson Show Came Calling for Milton’s The Lazy Susans

Last winter, when Joanna Weiss wrote about the unexpected joys of getting recognized for her work in a rock band made up of suburban moms […]

Arts & Entertainment

First Look: What to Expect at the Brand-New Roadrunner Music Venue

It’s finally here. The highly anticipated opening of Roadrunner, the cavernous new live music venue in Boston Landing, arrives on Tuesday, March 15. It’s the […]

Arts & Entertainment

The Interview: Joey McIntyre of New Kids on the Block

Boy-band fans of a certain age may know Joey McIntyre as the youngest member of New Kids on the Block, but in the years since […]

Arts & Entertainment

Bars, Breweries, Night Clubs, Saunas, Ball Pits: How to Make the Most of Reopening Weekend

What will you do with your first day in post-COVID-restriction Boston? On May 29, the last of the city’s pandemic-era rules will expire, and all […]

Arts & Entertainment

Boston’s Biggest New Concert Venue Now Has a Very Boston Name

Although the past year saw the heartbreaking closure of a number of Boston music venues, there may be a glimmer of hope at the end […]

City Life

Please, PLEASE Stop Changing the Name of the Waterfront Pavilion Concert Venue

Last week, Vanyaland reported that the concert venue down on the waterfront—you know the one, it gets lovely breezes in the summer—had changed its name. […]