Culture

Anna Lee’s Company, a funk/bluegrass/folk-rock band with a name derived from a lyric in the Band’s iconic “The Weight,” formed early in 2013. The four core musicians all previously played in other popular...

“Billy Strings & Don Julin play traditional American string band music with energy levels usually associated with extreme sports,” says the website of this northern Michigan duo. The line sounds good for getting...

In the summer, birds are said to sing, as are crickets and cicadas. Wolves and whales have songs to which we’ve never managed to learn the lyrics. For people, song is where words and melodies like to meet. The air fills...

At one point in Celeste Ng’s new debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, a Chinese American father imagines saying to his white wife, “You’ve never been in a room where no one else looked like you....

A Louis Vuitton quiver and a dream catcher bra.Translucent coyotes spun from packaging tape.And, coiled like a white snake, a MacBook Pro power cord beaded with a peyote stitch.Created by contemporary Native artists, these works...

For many the main defining aspect of jazz is improvisation. And yet many of the most creative artists who have been associated with this kind of music, however broadly defined, have explored the deeply running continuum between...

Retro is all the rage these days. Quite a few bands now play some sort of Americana and use old-timey instruments. Even literary efforts harken back to old days. Instead of reading an e-book on an e-reader this summer, I’m...