Steely Dan will hit the road this fall for the Absolutely Normal Tour ’21, which will kick off in Miami at the beginning of October and wrap up at the end of November in Boston. There will also be a pair of accompanying live albums released before the tour begins: Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! and a live version of Donald Fagen&...

Last year, the indie rap legend MF DOOM died at the age of 49. At the time of his death, the last album that DOOM had released was Czarface Meets Metal Face, a 2018 team-up with the underground supergroup Czarface. Czarface is Wu-Tang member Inspectah Deck’s project with the Boston underground veterans 7L & Esoteric, and they&...

On May 9, 1987, Sonic Youth were the surprise guests at a benefit show supporting Jimmy Johnson and Byron Coley’s experimental music magazine Forced Exposure. The concert went down at The Rat in the mag’s home base of Boston, and it featured some serious underground heavy hitters. Forced Exposure contributor Steve Albini was ...

The Boston hardcore band MOVE was formed with a particular aim in mind: To represent the Black experience in hardcore, a genre that’s never been considered Black music even though it was literally created by Bad Brains. The band took its name from the Black militant collective that was bombed by Philadelphia police in 1985. (Cops burne...