The Joe Policastro Trio performs tonight, Jan 15 at 7 and 9 p.m. at the Crawlspace Theater in downtown Kalamazoo, as part of a popular series sponsored by the John Stites Jazz Awards. Bassist Joe ...

R&B singer Keith Sweat will perform Feb. 6 at Powers Auditorium. Sweat has sold more than 25 million records worldwide and helped shape and define the new jack swing sound. His first six albums from ...

It’s axiomatic in the commercial theater that two shows always sell: “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Sound of Music.” Why? Both are beloved works of genius that are generous when it comes to human ...

“Hot club” jazz, sometimes called Gypsy jazz, the style of music pioneered by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli in Paris in the 1930s, has had a loooooong afterlife. Their ...

Since its premiere at Cannes Film Festival back in May of this year, The History of Sound has generated more buzz than your average wartime melodrama, largely due to its star casting. With Paul Mescal ...

Editor's note: This story is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly arts and culture newsletter, The ARTery. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. A queer romance film starring ...

When Asleep at the Wheel decided to record a record of Texas-centric songs to commemorate the Western swing outfit spending 50 of its 55 years in the Lone Star State, Ray Benson had a simple request: ...

The swing voter is back — but in a new form. Earlier in the 21st century, the dominant view among experts was that swing voters — those who might switch their party preference between elections — were ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly. But there ...

The world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra brings its signature swing sound to the Weinberg Center for the Arts at 2 p.m. April 27. Audiences will be transported back to the golden age of big-band music ...