Paul Simon

Jacob Jeffries Band Will Rock You

Paul Simon at Hard Rock Live, December 6

Culture Klatch

Amos Lee Smoothes Out the Culture Room Crowd

Swapping Swamps

Subterranean Finds

Exceptional new albums that reside well below the surface.

Brett Dennen

Exceptional new albums that reside well below the surface.

Brett Dennen to Play Culture Room This Saturday

People are ready for a fresh-faced heir apparent to Paul Simon, and from the looks of things, Brett Dennen is the guy. His warm, socially conscious folk continues to grow in appeal. Maybe it's the fact that he has more to say about the world than Jack Johnson, and that he does it with a fractured, ... More >>

Subterranean Finds: James Dunn, Greg Greenway, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Listing Ship

James DunnThe Long Ride Homewww.jamesdunnmusic.comEven the title boasts an air of familiarity, one that translates to the sound of the songs themselves. It breeds a connection that finds these muscular melodies recalling the angst-filled anthems of Bruce Springsteen as they might sound if sung by Ja ... More >>

Top Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic ... More >>

Vampire Weekend

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic ... More >>

Success Bites

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic ... More >>

Langerado: No Vampire! Denied!

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic ... More >>

Cheat Sheet to Langerado

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic ... More >>

Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend (XL)

Wyclef Jean

Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant (Sony)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu (Heads Up)

A Man and His Horn

Hugh Masekela talks about the highs and lows of a journey through music

Cellar Beware

Hugh Masekela talks about the highs and lows of a journey through music

We All Love Ella

Celebrating the First Lady of Song (Verge)

Spanish Harlem Orchestra

United We Swing (Six Degrees Records)

Last Night: Tony Orlando (Minus Dawn) at Hard Rock Live

United We Swing (Six Degrees Records)

Her Name Was Rachel Corrie

United We Swing (Six Degrees Records)

Long Walk to Freedom

Ladysmith Black Mambazo co-founder Albert Mazibuko talks about apartheid and the power of music

Crime and Identity

Ladysmith Black Mambazo co-founder Albert Mazibuko talks about apartheid and the power of music

24/7 Human

Sunshine Therapy

Africa Unite

For 40 years, Hugh Masekela has brought African music around the world.

Gospel Ululations

The Soweto Gospel Choir takes gospel back to the Motherland

Freestyle Fellowship

Sometimes awesome live bands also make magic in the studio

Pop Rocks

Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your earbuds all winter long

Xavier Rudd

Solace (Foundations/Universal)

Stagebeat

Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

Stagebeat

Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

Letters for October 28 - November 3, 2004

Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

Two Hearts

Make love and war

Various Artists

Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music (Sony Wonder)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Dan Sweeney|Audra Schroeder

Let's Get Physical

Q and Not U break into sonic sweat

Radiohead

Hail to the Thief (Capitol)

Daniel Lanois

Shine (Anti-/Epitaph)

Various Artists

An Afro-Portuguese Odyssey (Putumayo)

Somebody Say "Amen!"

"The Gaither Homecoming" testifies at the Office Depot Center

Virtually Nothing

South Florida's museum Websites offer scant samplings of their collected works

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

Listen to the Movie

Almost Famous rings in your ears -- and heart -- long after it's over

Blurred Boundaries

"Musings"

Sound Check

"Musings"

Do You Believe in Retro?

"Musings"

Sound Check

"Musings"

Urban Contempo

"Musings"