This weekend the Down Home Up Here, a bluegrass festival at Club Passim is returning for its 4th year April 16 and 17, 2016. This annual Patriot’s Day Weekend festival [ … ]

For those that know me on more personal level than “some guy behind an internet curtain writing some things about music in New England”, you know I am also a [ … ]

I remember being incredibly intrigued by Anna Rae the first time I ran into her at the Lizard Lounge Open Mic a number of years ago. There is a power [ … ]

Do you like sweet and tender vocal harmonies? Do you like ripping solos played through groovy or overdriven or cavernous effects chains? Do you like folk or bluegrass or rock [ … ]

There is literally no one else with a voice like Sarah Borges. Literally. I mean listen to even one of this artist’s songs and then spend a few days trying [ … ]

Songstress Sarah Blacker has been a mainstay in the Camber-ville community for a long while now. With a voice that is unmistakable and chord patterns that are interesting and out [ … ]

February 17th (that’s tonight), Allston-local band Stains Of A Sunflower will be joined by friends Alec Hutson Trio and InTheRoundartists Hailey Magee, Mary Henriquez, and Doully Yang for an awesome night of great music at Aeronaut Brewery in Union Square! Stains Of A Sunflower is a folk-rock band [ … ]

I’ve long been a fan of The Plough as a spot to play and take in tunes late night. It just has such a vibe to it. A comfortable room [ … ]

We here at RLR love us some bluegrass music. High and lonesome vocals, unfathomably fast mandolin and banjo runs, soaring fiddles and the weight of the upright bass grounding it [ … ]