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Tuesday, November 11: Alejandro Escovedo

by Liza Weisstuch | November 03, 2008
Alejandro Escovedo would be a perfect character in a Rick Moody novel. There’s the epic history that smacks of southwestern Americana (growing up with a father in a Mariachi band, seeing John Lee Hooker as a child). There’s the self-discovery from years of unfettered artistic exploration, rock, and debauchery (playing in the Nuns, a San Francisco punk band in the 1970s; living for long stints at the legendary Chelsea Hotel). And there’s the way friendship was his lifeline when he recently battled Hepatitis C. (Musicians including Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams banded together to make a fundraising album.) Then there’s recovery, which led him to encounters with long-admired idols like the Velvet Underground’s John Cale, who produced an album for him in 2006. Escovedo’s latest project, Real Animal, blends his penchant for rootsy rock with his punk past. He offers his reality check tonight at the Museum of Fine Arts (465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 617.369.3306) at 7:30 p.m. Get tickets ($25; $20 for members, students, and seniors) at www.mfa.org....

Thursday, September 25: College Night

by Erin Souza | September 22, 2008

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Wednesday, July 16

by Liza Weisstuch | July 10, 2008
What started in 2003 as a bunch of guys getting together one night a week at a New York club to dabble in a modern interpretation of forro, a jubilant Brazilian folk dance music, became Forro in the Dark , an alluring ensemble that has garnered attention...

Son Volt

by webteam | May 19, 2008
SATURDAY, MAY 24 Jay Farrar is to altcountry what Coltrane is to jazz, what the Sex Pistols are to punk, what Dion and the Belmonts are to doowop, what … well, you get the point. Farrar sauntered onto the scene in 1989, when he and Jeff Tweedy (later...