Thursday, May 25, 2017
The Malden resident’s new album is particularly impressive under the circumstances -- he suffered a major stroke in January 2016.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMThursday, May 11, 2017
The album Northern Passages has left me without any doubt that The Sadies are worthy of every iota of praise they have received.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMThursday, March 23, 2017
Colin Hay need no longer worry about job security as a touring and recording artist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMFriday, February 17, 2017
Tony Fletcher’s research is impeccable, his sources are unimpeachable, and his style is thoroughly engaging.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMMonday, January 30, 2017
Having long gotten “the short end of the stick,” Sex Pistols founding member Steve Jones decided to write his autobiography.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Anything Could Happen is a 12-song collection that is as good as anything that a fan could have hoped for from Tommy Stinson.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
"There should never have been the cult of the rock star. That just shouldn’t have happened."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:24PMWednesday, October 19, 2016
"Conservatism was his perspective, but William F. Buckley was really interested in having the other side on and having real discussions."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:16PMThursday, October 13, 2016
"I’d be happy to start making a new record tomorrow, but I don’t know if we’ve all decided what the next move is."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMMonday, September 26, 2016
As a work of history, a journalistic account, and an astute study of a troubled subculture, Altamont is so engrossing that it almost disarms criticism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:09AMTuesday, August 2, 2016
"It might sound a little kooky comparing David Bowie to poet William Butler Yeats, but they had similar pitfalls as artists."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:18PMTuesday, July 26, 2016
Readers inspired to take a listening journey from Gioia's historical perspective will benefit greatly from his delineation of jazz's various forms.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:52AMMonday, March 21, 2016
"There comes a decision-making process where some of the jokes, I’m like, I’m glad I never have to tell that one again."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AMSunday, January 24, 2016
After more than four decades, Paul Collins is still keeping The Beat
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:56AMSaturday, December 12, 2015
"I love analyzing songs and finding out what makes them tick and what makes them wonderful."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:14AMTuesday, November 24, 2015
Cyril Jordan of The Flamin' Goovies, which will perform at the Brighton Music Hall tomorrow, talks about smoking pot with Edward Kennedy and impressing The Rolling Stones.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
It is nice to know that there is someone as cultivated and enthusiastic about constitutional history as Professor Akhil Reed Amar.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMTuesday, June 23, 2015
Bryan McPherson has come a long way from writing songs in the room next to mine in North Cambridge and then busking at Porter and Harvard Squares.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:01AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
1965 was the year in which the leading artists in American and British popular music pushed themselves beyond making albums that mixed covers with subpar originals.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:01AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
According to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterolog…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMThursday, March 12, 2015
If James Madison was so verbose that his draft version of the First Amendment could be cut in half, then he can hardly be called an artist with words.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:40AMMonday, September 22, 2014
In this book, Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson explores the (d)evolution of the Republican Party from its founding in 1854 through the presidency of George W. Bush.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:01AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
This book is a valuable reminder that “the men associated with an era of supposed morality and Christian values of monogamy and marriage have nearly all been linked to infidelity and sex o…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:35AMSunday, March 9, 2014
In his book, Ira Stoll argues that John F. Kennedy was, "by the standards of both his time and our own, a conservative."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:01AMSaturday, February 22, 2014
"If, as a reader, you're expecting the standard rap on meat, then, well, you're in for an unexpected history."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AM 
