While an absent Noah Kahan won artist of the year (again), it was the city’s up-and-coming stars who stole the show.

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

Popular myths about the classic holiday tune have circulated for decades, obscuring its origins on the minstrel stage.

There are albums that belong on best of the year lists because they need more love, more attention, more celebration, more ...

How can people listen to “A Bar Song ... the Boston-based quartet can do bluegrass and everything else (folk, funk, pop, jazz, Americana…). But ignore the fact it proves the band has no ...

Guns N’ Roses Axl Rose, left, and Slash perform on the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Oct. 4, 2019 ...

There are thousands of Christmas songs. However, some don't fit the festive mood of the season, but they've become holiday classics anyway.

The awards show at Big Night Live on Dec. 11 reminded audience members that this city has a vibrant music scene deserving of ...

Ahead of singing “Twenty-Five,” a slow song accompanied only by the piano, Price reminisced about her years spent in Boston when the band first formed. “I’ll let you know that many of my ...

There's a long history of music and basketball intermixing. There's the age old saying that all NBA players want to be musicians and all musicians want to be some form of athlete. But in the case of a ...

There is Christmas music for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling it into one Christmas songs list is impossible ...

Christmas is a time of well-honed tradition in most families — the decorations, the tree, the cookies, the presents. In our ...