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Tate McRae is one of Canada’s biggest pop stars right now. Here’s how Boston inspired her latest album.

The rising Canadian singer, who performs in Boston this month, opens up about how the city inspired the titular track on her new album.

Don’t sleep on these down-bill acts at the Newport Jazz Festival
From the beginning, Newport — the nation’s first outdoor jazz festival — presented youthful newcomers alongside household names. This year is no different.

Give AI engine text prompt, get song. Where does that leave musicians?
AI-generated visual art has become commonplace, and a storm of AI-generated music could be next.

A new kind of music festival celebrates artists on the spectrum

The daylong bash on Saturday at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Quincy includes headliners like R&B star Faith Evans, whose son lives with autism, and autistic “America’s Got Talent” winner Kodi Lee.

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New venues and thriving artists reaffirm Lowell as a launchpad for local music
Considering the influx of venues, artist milestones, and wellspring of new music, it feels appropriate to amend the city’s old marketing tagline: "There's a lot to like about Lowell" — and even more to appreciate if you listen closely.

A new dawning for that green awning? Historic rock club Great Scott finds next home in Allston.
Four years after the club’s closure during the pandemic, a trio of business partners has secured a promising location for Great Scott that will reintroduce the club alongside O’Brien’s Pub.

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Tanglewood celebrates all things Koussevitzky
The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center honored the Tanglewood founder’s trailblazing legacy with music old and new.

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Conan O’Brien and other famous faces helped cap a star-studded final day of the Newport Folk Festival
The former late-night host wasn't the only big name on Sunday, as John C. Reilly, Mavis Staples, Jack White, and even Triumph the Insult Comic Dog all performed during the final day of the festival.

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Setting the stage: Scenes from the Newport Folk Festival

From Killer Mike to The War on Drugs, from Joan Baez to Billy Bragg, here's a look at some of the performers who took the stage this weekend.

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A day of heavy hitters, barely knowns, and happy ears at Newport Folk Festival

And we're betting those barely knowns are about to be big names. Here's what it was like to be at Fort Adams State Park Saturday, with so much good music to choose from.

Chappell Roan booked a tour. Then she blew up.

The rising pop star now has five songs on the Hot 100 and the venues her team picked out months ago are struggling to fit her ballooning audience.

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Mighty Poplar is ripe for pickin’ at Newport Folk Festival

The bluegrass supergroup will lean into tradition Sunday on the Harbor stage.

So many notables at Newport Folk Festival this year. Here’s a taste.

With around 90 performances across five stages at the Newport Folk Festival this weekend, attendees will have to make some tough choices about what they see.

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What’s their age again? Blink-182 brings youthful hijinks to Fenway Park.

Travis Barker and the band's crude, idiocy-fueled material was charging, hopped up, and bright during their show in Boston on Tuesday night.

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What might be on Kamala Harris’s campaign megamix?

On Monday, the vice president made her entrance to her new Delaware campaign headquarters to the sound of Beyoncé's “Freedom,” from the 2016 album "Lemonade."

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Well-curated ‘chaos’ reigns at the fourth edition of NICE, a fest

Plus: Sammy Hagar packages Van Halen hits with solo material at the Xfinity Center Friday, Coral Moons’s new LP signals a shift for the Boston-born group, and more.