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07/29/2024

11/08/2023

Swan Lake (Chestnut Hill) Right now. Mom and Dad and the cygnets come to the cove to say hi, but mostly intent on diving and feeding. All 5 accounted for. They do fly, but we've not seen that in person yet.

12/08/2021

Today:

Music writer Jim Sullivan reflects on his former Boston Globe colleagues and the impact they left on the music journalism scene.

11/24/2021

Aerosmith: Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

The 40-minute LP and cassette, called "1971: The Road Starts Hear," was culled from a two-track tape done on a vintage Wollensak reel-to-reel deck owned by guitarist Joe Perry in 1971 at Boston University.

08/13/2021

On vax passports and live music:

Once again, the concert scene — nationally and locally — is in flux, caught up in a COVID whirlwind, as the more contagious and dangerous delta variant spreads.

12/22/2020

On the live music industry and the COVID-19 Relief bill ....

Although many deem it too little too late, members of NIVA share where they’re at heading into Phase Two.

12/17/2020

Hey, It's Christmas-time and that means ...

Taking back a holiday classic for Shane MacGowan, turns 63 on December 25th

12/11/2020

https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/12/11/documentary-crock-of-gold-pogues-shane-macgowan?fbclid=IwAR13_eLtqzbmnQzp3Vq3a5dK_9lljNwcDfseVojJPJqHlc6xZ_VJE3nXOg0

The singer-songwriter is known as a brilliant artist who created much joy and caused considerable damage, much of it self-inflicted. It’s that world that documentarian Julien Temple captures.

11/25/2020

Sad, but not shocking. As proprietrix JJ Gonson says: "F**k COVID."

“We can’t afford to stay. We can’t pay our essential bills -- the rent, electric, telephone,” said JJ Gonson, owner of ONCE.

10/16/2020

Me on Harry Chapin, my dinner with him in '81, a month before the crash, the new doc and how it was made. Balancing a life of activism and music .... way before it was in vogue.

The 93-minute documentary directed and co-produced by Rick Korn follows the singer-songwriter’s drive to end world hunger and poverty.

09/17/2020

My latest for Experience. Rehabbing basketball courts and turning them into funky and functional spaces.

Symbolically powerful — and playable — murals are popping up around the country

05/21/2020

It's long been on my turntable (or cassette deck, or CD player, or Spotify or YouTube), the ambient music of Brian Eno and, to a lesser extent, Robert Fripp. There's many other entries worth exploring in the ambient world, of course, but these guys were here at the onset and now Fripp is releasing a once a week release - "Music for Quiet Moments."

"At its best, ambient music supplies a quiet constancy, a tranquility that can counter the disturbing currents running through our brains," writes ARTery contributor Jim Sullivan.