Boston remains a place where strong musicianship and songwriting are greatly valued. WBUR music writer Noah Schaffer shares 14 albums that prove just that, from jazz, Celtic-tinged folk, Sephardic ...

Boston's alternative weekly newspaper The Phoenix has published a list of the 100 Best Emo Songs of All-Time, according to their staff of music writers. The list, which is sure to be controversial, ...

All good songwriting has a timeless quality, and that certainly applies to the music of Los Angeles band Dawes, whose ninth album, “Oh Brother,” arrived Oct. 24 on the Dead Ringers label.

cover-song vibe. He allowed us the space to have fun. He’s really good about nurturing that creative, fun environment.” The band didn’t want to do an album of covers. “The writing was the ...