Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers Dec.

Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are a few recommendations from Globe writers and critics, covering music, ...

Guns N’ Roses Axl Rose, left, and Slash perform on the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Oct. 4, 2019 ...

Popular myths about the classic holiday tune have circulated for decades, obscuring its origins on the minstrel stage.

1 taken by “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” This standout from Twisted Pine’s flabbergastingly great 2024 LP “Love Your Mind” could be a ...

There are thousands of Christmas songs. However, some don't fit the festive mood of the season, but they've become holiday classics anyway.

Brian Rudquist loves the '80s. The Rochester rocker doesn't just play the music of Gen X grew up with, he has named his band ...

A Memphis musician has paved his way from music city to one of the top music colleges in the world. Southwind High School ...

"This is from our next record, it’s gonna be out in September or something like that. It’s gonna be a rock n roll record!

There is Christmas music for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling it into one Christmas songs list is impossible ...

To find out more about the chord and why it feels so powerful to so many, host Robin Young talks to Dr. Martin Clarke, a musicologist who studies the intersection between music and theology. He joins ...