Live

At 67, Gladys Knight doesn’t have anything left to prove. But at her recent, almost-sold-out show on the mainstage at Proctors, the soul diva proved a few interesting things anyway. Knight can still sing. Whether it ...

DIIV (formerly Dive, the change coming just over a week ago) are a young, Brooklyn-bred four-piece making good, if not particularly original, music. It’s not an awful thing, their lack of originality. They’re still building ...

Sure, “Sleepyhead” was bound to get the biggest crowd response of the night, but four years after penning that monster hit, Passion Pit are working the stage hard to prove it won’t be their one-and-only. ...

In Valentine’s tight, intimate, and oddly charming upstairs, Lockett Pundt’s Lotus Plaza continued a night started by experimental locals Location Ensemble. Pundt—known particularly for his work as Lieutenant to Bradford Cox’s General in much-loved indie ...

For further proof that humanity is approaching the 2012 singularity, take Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men (and the growing number of similar bands), who somehow tripped the cultural hyperdrive and jumped from international-unknown to ...

If there is one group in hip-hop who are innovating at every stage of their game, it is Shabazz Palaces. Formed by producer and MC Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler of Digable Planets (aka Palaceer Lazaro) and ...

The black-box theater at EMPAC was dark except for the track lights running up either side of the room. A fugue of sampled drum fills, cut-and-paste chords, and disembodied voices panned in the house speakers. ...

The Troy Gasholder building was transformed into an apocalyptic edge of the world on Saturday and Sunday nights. Artist and RPI professor Michael Oatman was captain of the team that brought this large-scale interactive multimedia ...

At some point you stop trying to put your finger on exactly which genres David Grisman is synthesizing at a given moment. His prodigious list of albums and band projects includes some straight-up bluegrass, newgrass, ...

Fuckin’ A. Midway through a thoroughly gripping, third-tune “Mountain Song,” it occurred to me very clearly: In a more just musical world, Jane’s Addiction would be U2. Or vice versa. In a sold-out, Friday night concert at ...

Trumpeter Randy Brecker and saxophonist Ada Rovatti came through town Saturday night to play a mix of originals and standards with some of the local heavyweights. Drummer Dave Calarco, bassist John Menegon and guitarist Matt ...