Roots Report: The Gift of Music
Okee dokee folks… During this time of year it is tough to be a local musician or run a local music venue. Even the most loyal music fans get preoccupied […]
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The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Rob’s Album Of The Week: Black Moth Super Rainbow’s SeeFu Lilac
Genres blur in today’s music. Sometimes it’s a simple merging of two styles while other times it can be very abstract and all over the place. Then there’s music that’s […]
What Cheer Records + Vintage To Make Black Friday Fun
When you hear the words Black Friday, horrific images might float around in your head. Crazed parents trying to find that new hot toy for their spoiled kids, people camped outside […]
CD Review: Televisionaries — Self-Titled
Compared to many of my fellow music writers who toil daily in the literary trenches, I’m still a relative newbie, having only been at this just shy of a decade. […]
The Trumpet Shall Sound: Big Band Holidays with Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis is arguably the most important musician of his generation. A nine-time Grammy award winning trumpet virtuoso, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, master educator, impassioned arts advocate and humanitarian, Marsalis […]
Mike D’s Top Tracks
Big Grams – “Lights On” I love this song, should be a radio hit. Expectations were pretty high for this Phantogram & Big Boi collaboration, but the album didn’t quite […]
HxC: Giving Thanks for Live Music
With the holiday season right around the corner, fewer shows are popping up around PVD. The end of November, however, has some good shows on hand. If you missed the […]
Rob’s Album Of The Week: Lags’ Pilot
Rome is known for a lot of things — the Colosseum, the Italian Renaissance and the city’s numerous statues and monuments. Who’d have thought that a place like Rome would […]
Alt-Nation: Gavage Talks Turkey
Gavage – Self-Titled (75orLess Records and Port of Providence Records) A couple of years ago, my friend Mike Kelly recommended checking out Gavage. I took notice mostly because in the […]
Roots Report: An Annual Rant
Okee dokee folks … Every year it seems that I have to adopt my Ebenezer persona earlier and earlier. I don’t do Christmas. I haven’t for almost 30 years. It […]