I closed my Last.fm account in 2019 and didn't think anything of it, until I signed back up recently. Right away, it felt like I was catching up with an old friend who had some new stories to tell me.

When I was a teenager, my parents were not terribly interested in the music I liked and thought that it just sounded like “a lot of noise.” Meanwhile, my father regularly referred to the music that he ...

Barbara Hannigan is fearless in the face of new music. The Canadian soprano has sung the world premiere of over 100 new works, and last year released a recording of songs by the contemporary American ...

The year is barely a month old, but New England’s musicians have hit the ground running. Melodic punk, melancholy rap, acoustic folk, even a few jazz standards – it’s all on order. Our critics weigh ...

In the age of streaming, easy and continuous access to music is just a click away. Gone are the days of perusing through plastic CD cases and going to the store to pick out the latest LP releases, but ...

MANKATO — For anyone who has watched KEYC TV’s 65-year-old legacy program, “Bandwagon,” the sight of folks bouncing and bopping to the sounds of polka music is nothing new. Now, however, the ...

School’s back in session, another crop of students has taken its place in local institutions, and we need a playlist to celebrate. Presented here are a pile of classic back-to-school songs, both ...

There’s a point when discovering new music stops being exciting. For some people, that point arrives suspiciously close to the moment they start calling everything on the radio “noise.” Growing up my ...