Just one year after four UML musicians got together to perform a senior recital, they won the most storied music contest in Boston, one of the world’s great rock and roll cities. The alt-rock band The ...

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.

Find out what interesting facts Ozzy Osbourne learned on this day in 2010 and how Steven Tyler got hurt in 2011.

More than $1. 6 million was raised for the city's only public high school devoted to the performing and visual arts.

and you will soon be able to see it here in Boston. With Silents Synced, Josh Frank has taken the 1922 silent film "Nosferatu" and added rock music. "I always had a fascination with, is there ...

“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.

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

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.

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

Our top concert picks of the week bring a little Chicago, a little Boston, and a little Memphis style to town.

How do you entice music-lovers to travel to a city perhaps best known for history, seafood, and sports? Well, a festival showcasing the sounds of its music scene could do the trick. That was the ...