The Malden resident’s new album is particularly impressive under the circumstances -- he suffered a major stroke in January 2016.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMThe album Northern Passages has left me without any doubt that The Sadies are worthy of every iota of praise they have received.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMColin Hay need no longer worry about job security as a touring and recording artist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMTony Fletcher’s research is impeccable, his sources are unimpeachable, and his style is thoroughly engaging.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMHaving long gotten “the short end of the stick,” Sex Pistols founding member Steve Jones decided to write his autobiography.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PMAnything Could Happen is a 12-song collection that is as good as anything that a fan could have hoped for from Tommy Stinson.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AM"There should never have been the cult of the rock star. That just shouldn’t have happened."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:24PM"Conservatism was his perspective, but William F. Buckley was really interested in having the other side on and having real discussions."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:16PM"I’d be happy to start making a new record tomorrow, but I don’t know if we’ve all decided what the next move is."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMAs a work of history, a journalistic account, and an astute study of a troubled subculture, Altamont is so engrossing that it almost disarms criticism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:09AM"It might sound a little kooky comparing David Bowie to poet William Butler Yeats, but they had similar pitfalls as artists."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:18PMReaders inspired to take a listening journey from Gioia's historical perspective will benefit greatly from his delineation of jazz's various forms.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:52AM"There comes a decision-making process where some of the jokes, I’m like, I’m glad I never have to tell that one again."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMAfter more than four decades, Paul Collins is still keeping The Beat
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:56AM"I love analyzing songs and finding out what makes them tick and what makes them wonderful."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:14AMCyril Jordan of The Flamin' Goovies, which will perform at the Brighton Music Hall tomorrow, talks about smoking pot with Edward Kennedy and impressing The Rolling Stones.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58AMIt is nice to know that there is someone as cultivated and enthusiastic about constitutional history as Professor Akhil Reed Amar.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMBryan McPherson has come a long way from writing songs in the room next to mine in North Cambridge and then busking at Porter and Harvard Squares.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:01AM1965 was the year in which the leading artists in American and British popular music pushed themselves beyond making albums that mixed covers with subpar originals.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:01AMAccording to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterolog…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMIf James Madison was so verbose that his draft version of the First Amendment could be cut in half, then he can hardly be called an artist with words.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:40AMIn this book, Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson explores the (d)evolution of the Republican Party from its founding in 1854 through the presidency of George W. Bush.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:01AMThis book is a valuable reminder that “the men associated with an era of supposed morality and Christian values of monogamy and marriage have nearly all been linked to infidelity and sex o…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:35AMIn his book, Ira Stoll argues that John F. Kennedy was, "by the standards of both his time and our own, a conservative."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:01AM"If, as a reader, you're expecting the standard rap on meat, then, well, you're in for an unexpected history."
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