The big music news for me this week was seeing Sarah Jarosz play at the Narrows Center in Fall River, Massachusetts. It’s a great venue, albeit with higher prices than nearly anywhere else you w
I grew up outside of Eugene and the thing about that city is that while it is great in many ways, it has a terrible music scene. Somehow, Michelle Zauner from Japanese Breakfast is from Eugene, which
I haven’t written a Music Notes column in a long time, largely because I’ve been traveling so much, often for shows. So let me highlight a couple and then I will hold the show I saw last n
I’ve been reading a couple of music books and since I don’t have any gigantic stories to tell today or any shows I’ve seen in the last couple of weeks, seems like a good idea to disc
Last Saturday, I saw Yo La Tengo play at the Columbus Theater in Providence. It was my second Yo La Tengo show and the better of the two, I think. In the first set, the band really went to their quiet
I spent last weekend at the Rhythm & Roots Festival in Charlestown, Rhode Island. This is an annual folk festival on the coast near the Connecticut border. I’d never gone before, largely bec
Another week, another major musical death to note here. This time, it’s Don Everly, the remaining half of The Everly Brothers. I don’t have as much to say about Everly as I did last week a
This week’s issue of Music Notes will only discuss one issue before we get to reviews, and that’s the death of Tom T. Hall. Tom T. was one of the all-time greats. A true humanist, no one c