Margo Price Carries New Year’s Baby
To start her short tour leading up to New Year’s Eve, Margo Price rewrote the old Loretta Lynn tune “One’s On the Way.” Fitting, since she’s showing off her own…
Possibly Cat Power at the 9:30 Club
The music starts up minutes before Cat Power strides on stage. Her backing trio is conjuring up a kind of soundscape of pointillist notes, more structured than tuning up, but…
Riding Rev. Horton Heat’s Holiday Hayride
The Rev. Horton Heat issued his Christmas album 13 years ago, but only for the last few years has he loaded up a big holiday revue that includes a few…
On Stage: Dickens with an Irish Twist
Humbug’s my usual reaction when there’s yet another variation of “A Christmas Carol” on local stages this time of year. Can’t someone come up with an original idea for a…
Rufus Wainwright Looks Back
Rufus Wainwright is an accomplished enough figure in music, having just opened his second opera, that he needn’t resort to nostalgia. Lucky for his longtime fans that he is, marking…
Celebrating ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’
“One hundred years from this day,” Gram Parsons once wrote. “Will the people still feel this way?” Alas, he wouldn’t live to find out. Twenty-two when he wrote it, he…
Another Final Show of ‘Pet Sounds’
It’s been two years since Brian Wilson’s 50th anniversary tour of the Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” started doing their “final performances” across the states and around the world. But the…
Elvis Costello Does DAR Constitution Hall
Normally super-prolific, Elvis Costello went five years between new albums recently, going so far as to tour an old album, "Imperial Bedroom” last year rather than release a new set…
‘Anastasia’ Musical at the Kennedy Center
So many Romanovs these days! There’s Matthew Weiner’s Amazon series in which various supposed survivors of the doomed royal line emerges in modern day, with a new episode every Friday.…
A New Orleans ‘Take Me to the River’
It’s less than a half a year to Fat Tuesday, but the heart of Mardi Gras is on the road, in the form of the "Take Me to the River"…