When someone recommended to Steven Hassan he write a volume called The Cult of Trump, “it just seemed like the most important book I could write, frankly.” The post Book Review: “The C…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PM"You can read Frederick Douglass forever and still just encounter new things, new ideas, new passages, new phrases. He’s that kind of writer. It’s like reading Emerson or even Shakespear…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:12PMRobert Forster was apparently spot-on when he proclaimed that The Go-Betweens "were too good for the bloody charts.” The post Music Interview:Musician and Writer Robert Forster — Life Be…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PMI wanted to give my kids this gift of a book about them and for them. The post Author Interview: Tim O’Brien — The Sound of a Father’s Voice appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:33PM“I’ve put out records by myself before, but this is like 10 times the work!” The post Music Interview: Talking to Rocker Amy Rigby — Musician Turned Author appeared first on The Arts…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:36PMWill Birch's biography Cruel to Be Kind effortlessly details the six decade career of rocker Nick Lowe. The post Author Interview: Will Birch Talks about Nick Lowe — Singer, Songwriter, Pr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:24PM“Honest weight” has more to with like karats of gold, maybe. The “weight” being the value of something. It kind of alludes to that a little bit. The post Music Interview: Mike Adams …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:48PMIf there is any theme that runs throughout the story of Roger Daltrey’s life as he tells it, it’s that he has always needed more money to – as he so folksily puts it – “pay the bil…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMThe book deals with how Atheists, Wiccans, Summums, Muslims, and Satanists “fought to have their voices heard” in communities dominated by Christians and others who were skeptical of the…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:33PM"Since the late ‘60s I’ve been up and down the Northeast corridor, and Boston’s always one of our favorite stops." The post Rock Interview: Nils Lofgren — Being “Blue With Lou” a…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMJennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America makes for an exciting, if quicksilver, tour through intellectual history. The post Book Review: “The Ideas That Made America” �…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:22AMDino Cattaneo saw an opportunity to mark another ruby anniversary with the help of “killer” – his word of choice – local artists. The post Rock Preview: A Salute to the New Wave Tha…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:07PMOverall, Juliana Hatfield's Weird is closer to good than to great. The post Rock Album Review: Juliana Hatfield’s “Weird” — In Customary Fine Form appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMTina Cassidy talks about her revealing and enjoyable new book about how a woman’s right to vote became enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The post Book Interview: Tina Cassidy on the Woma…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:15AMIt would appear that Martin Phillipps and company are experiencing a late-career renaissance that bodes well for their future. The post Music Interview: Martin Phillipps of The Chills appear…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AM"It’s a very exciting prospect that your peers think your worthy to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." The post Music Interview: Talking With Colin Blunstone — Post-Zo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMHere are 12 albums that come out in 2018 that I liked.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMThe author’s combination of knowledge and experience has resulted in a boisterous chronicle of one of indie rock’s least probable but most luminous and unremitting stars.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AMThe first book on the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:43AM"Rather than encourage the machines to behave like machines, I chose to find ways to sort of use them to create a very cinematic and atmospheric soundscapes."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMRob Sheffield seemed to have promised a whale of an original tale but delivered only a few goldfish.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:54AMJesse Colin Young's best material is worthy of favorable comparisons to Tom Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, and the unrelated Neil Young.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:48PMSloan is a brand that stands for high-quality, retro-flavored pop that is rarely hackneyed or derivative.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PMDedham native and Boston University graduate Ryan H. Walsh wanted to learn more about the local connections to what he calls his “favorite album of all time.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:33AM"There’s not too many people wanting their money back, thinking that they’re at a Pig Destroyer show or Destroyer 666."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:51AM"I see him as the greatest artist of the English language, it happens to be in song, of the second half of the 20th century.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:33AM"Playing with John Lennon was a big deal. He was very cool and very nice. Very much like the John Lennon that you imagine, you know."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04AM“As morality shifts,” NPR's Ann Powers writes, “music does, too, helping people navigate those boundaries.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48AM"To me, '67 was a year that was different from what came after it."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:04AMMatthew Sweet and Tommy Keene return to town to brighten the Music Hall in Allston.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMThe Malden resident’s new album is particularly impressive under the circumstances -- he suffered a major stroke in January 2016.
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