When Inhaler announced its North American tour in May, I was thrilled, because I wasn’t able to see them the last time they ...

The alt-rock band The Ghouls burst onto the Greater Boston music scene last May ... They also won free video and photo shoots, publicity and legal services, another concert booking in Boston and more.

Nirvana may have injected alternative rock with a new sense of cool in the 1990s, but their sound was still predicated on catchy riffs and pop melodies.

Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers Oct.

Phil Lesh gave the Grateful Dead permission to be weird. Which basically means, Lesh gave the band permission to be itself.

Fans and fellow band members recognized Phil Lesh as a critical member of the Grateful Dead and he was known for his ...

Lesh was one of the longest-surviving members of the band that came to define the acid rock sound emanating from San ...

LOS ANGELES - As a songwriting student at Boston’s Berklee College of Music in the mid-2010s, Amy Allen had a teacher who ...

“Please Come to Boston” is a travelogue that put Dave Loggins on the yacht rock map, and that song continues to occupy special musical real estate after all this time.

Not long after, the Boston Catholic Diocese ordered all local radio stations to remove the song from the airwaves—which only served to increase the allure around the seemingly harmless tune.

It makes you remember the song more because it’s not correct ... in small-town Maine before going to nursing school at Boston ...

On Sept. 23, more than half a century after co-founding Electric Light Orchestra in Birmingham, England, lead singer Jeff Lynne took the stage to thunderous applause at TD Garden in Boston. The ...