Spanning three days and four stages, Solid Sound includes music by Wilco and its members’ side projects, as well as many other musical performers. It also features a full comedy lineup, family fun for all ages, local food, craft beer, camping, naturalist activities, and more. Concerts held rain or shine. Music Line-up: Wilco, Jason Isbell […]
MASS MoCA’s 25th Anniversary Community Celebration concludes with a performance by the Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated band Son Lux, a groundbreaking trio with deep ties to the museum whose wildly inventive sound embraces influences from iconoclastic artists in soul, hip-hop, and experimental improvisation. Founded by Ryan Lott as a solo project and now featuring fellow […]
Los Angeles psych-soul four-piece Chicano Batman source their high-spirited alternative synthesis from tropicália, West Coast psychedelia, and late-’60s/early-’70s soul. Their album Invisible People (2020) — their most sonically varied and cohesive to date — is a statement of hope, a proclamation that we are all invisible people, and that despite race, class, or gender we […]
After nearly a decade of musical friendship, it seems only fitting that the cult American singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane and iconic Finnish musician Pekka Kuusisto have formalized their collaboration under the moniker ‘Council.’ Now, they present an evening of intimate and sonically varied songs & chamber music, written during several writing retreats in North Karelia and […]
Night Two, May 4: The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs 25th Anniversary Part Two In celebration of the 25th anniversary of its release, the Magnetic Fields will perform 69 Love Songs — the 3-disc masterwork that marked a significant breakthrough for the American band — in its entirety over the course of 2 nights, for […]
Night One, May 3: The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs 25th Anniversary Part One In celebration of the 25th anniversary of its release, the Magnetic Fields will perform 69 Love Songs — the 3-disc masterwork that marked a significant breakthrough for the American band — in its entirety over the course of 2 nights, for […]
Award-winning Afro-Cuban jazz singer Daymé Arocena has been described as Cuba’s “finest young female singer” (The Guardian). Frequently compared to prominent figures such as Celia Cruz, Aretha Franklin, La Lupe, and Ella Fitzgerald, Arocena draws inspiration from the intertwining musical legacies of her native Cuba. Her output incorporates her Havana heritage, strong faith in Santeria, […]
Johanna Hedva will debut songs from their upcoming, in-progress album, Fist. Written on a haunted acoustic guitar that disappeared for ten years and then returned in the winter of 2023, the songs from Fist materialize as hag blues, succubus folk, and bog-witch lullabies. Hedva’s trademark voice, trained in both traditions of classical opera and Korean […]
Celebrate the release of Lizzie No’s new album Halfsies at an electrifying show at MASS MoCA this January. After a dizzying five-year span that saw the release of two stunning, eclectic albums (which drew praise from the likes of Billboard and Rolling Stone) — followed by appearances at AmericanaFest, the Newport Folk Festival, Hardly Strictly […]
With a dusty baritone as bright as an eternally lit jukebox and tattooed fingers around the fretboard of a rare guitar, Stephen Sanchez tunes into longing and love with the acuity of a tried-and-tested troubadour — yet he’s only 20 years old. Transcending eras, he writes the kind of songs that can play just as […]
Prodigy pianist and composer Jason Moran — “the most provocative thinker in current jazz,” according to Rolling Stone — plays MASS MoCA in connection with his exhibition Black Stars: Writing in the Dark with his trailblazing trio The Bandwagon. One of the most enduringly creative piano trios in jazz, The Bandwagon is Moran, bassist Tarus […]
Silent film and eclectic rock come together for this not-to-be-missed event. Troker composed the new soundtrack for El automóvil gris, often considered the most important Mexican silent film, whose story revolves around one of the most famous historical criminal gangs in the country. With their original score, Troker helps the public understand the intertwined elements […]
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