Awards are overrated. Shows matter, so check out the bluesy, bubbly band Glad Valley, or Ezra Furman, or a hot jazz trio.

The phrase “strike while the iron is hot” has never applied to Boston’s founding member and musical mastermind, Tom Scholz. Time and again in the band’s career, Scholz proved that he’d take extra time ...

Album covers clockwise from top left: Otis Shanty's "Lowballer" (Courtesy Sadye Bobbette/Otis Shanty); Ethan Setiawan's "Encyclopedia Mandolinnica" (Art by Mike Cox, design by Louise Bichan); Najee ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Released in August 1976, the debut Boston album sent shockwaves through the music industry. It ...

Only a handful of local bands can fill up a venue as large as Boston’s 3,500-capacity Roadrunner. Couch is one of them. The group has brought its fusion of pop, soul and funk across the country and ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most Shazamed songs in Boston. Boston has the most ranked songs (22) in common with Brentwood NY and no ranked songs in common with 182 metros. The most seen artist in ...

Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers March 14-20. Of all the Dunkin’-clutching stereotypes about Bostonians, perhaps ...

The Boston band’s ninth album restores its former post-hardcore roar while folding in strings and pockets of tenderness that suit the songs’ mournful mood. Well, maybe both. What’s impressive, even a ...

The 502s, an indie folk group hailing from Florida, were all smiles as they started their set at Boston Calling. Circling around each other as a tropical background flooded the stage’s screens, they ...

More than 700 All Time Low fans packed a Boston beer garden Tuesday to see the band at a free pop-up show. The popular punk rock band performed a roughly 45-minute acoustic set at Cisco Brewers in ...