Music, memories and blood rule Pearl Jam’s run at Fenway Park

The third leg of Pearl Jam's 2024 Dark Matter tour concludes with two more stunning shows.

REVIEWS

The years and miles lead Pearl Jam to triumph with Dark Matter
On their twelfth album, the band pulls together to deliver a latter-day masterpiece.

Ty Segall’s Three Bells puts freedom ahead of genres and styles
Segall returns with another twisted set of sounds and songs, merging into one glorious freak-out..

The journey’s in the detours and the details with The Smile’s Wall of Eyes
The second album from The Smile is at once relaxed and urgent, resulting in just a delightful dost of twisted reality, and the perfect introduction to this still-new year of 2024.

Queens of the Stone Age step out of the darkness with In Times New Roman...
Josh Homme and company have emerged from these troubled times with an absolute masterpiece of an album.

Council Skies is Noel Gallagher at his retrospective best
As if on cue, Gallagher looks back and delivers an album that shines a light on the path beyond all this.

Sonic Youth moves from noise to atmospheric jams and back on In/Out/In
It's been too long without new music from Sonic Youth. And even if everything here is more than a decade old, it's still a thrilling listen.

Neil and the Horse swing in and out of time on Barn
Neil Young and Crazy Horse emerge with an album that exists for this moment and should last beyond it.

All the phases, stages and winding roads to Let It Be
The last Beatles album to be released gets the deluxe treatment that the music always deserved.

Fifty years later, new sounds collide with classic vibes on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass
A new mix and a wealth of alternate material provide new chapters to the story of Harrison's defiant first album.

Shake Your Money Maker will always tell the story of a band
Revisionist history will paint the Black Crowes as the story of two brothers, but the truth lies in the music.

Lockdown becomes a boon on McCartney III
Left to his own devices and devoid a modern producer, Paul McCartney followed his own beat and made a record worthy of this moment.

An overdue dream come true: Tom Petty’s complete vision of Wildflowers arrives
A quarter century in the making, Wildflowers & All the Rest —the total vision of Petty's masterpiece —is a welcome addition to the artist's cannon.

CONCERT REPORTS

Music, memories and blood rule Pearl Jam’s run at Fenway Park
The third leg of Pearl Jam's 2024 Dark Matter tour concludes with two more stunning shows.

Pearl Jam, Wrigley Field and the sun at the break of dawn
How many times can one person see the same band? When it's a band like this, it's amazing how deep the web of connection gets.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard & Joey & Timmy & the full moon & a sea of melted faces, next to an international airport
I may have to start marking my life as “Time Before First Seeing King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard,” and “Time After First Seeing King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.”

The Rolling Stones defy the laws of space and time in Foxboro
There's a simple and incredible fact at play here: this is still a great band putting on a great show every night in their seventh decade together.

Neil and the Horse stomp their way through Great Woods
In the glow of giant-sized Fender amps and a racing horse floating among the stars on the stage, Neil Young and Crazy Horse plugged in and unleashed their furious racket that is uniquely specific to them.

Traveling to Minnesota with Pearl Jam and everyone along the way
Another year, another Pearl Jam road trip, with the band and the surroundings delivering once again.

Springsteen and the E Street Band play for those here and gone at Gillette Stadium
Bruce Springsteen was his revelatory self in Foxboro, Mass., paying tribute to all those who have helped him take part in this journey through the years.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss cement their unique musical path at Thompson’s Point
Plant and Krauss capped the U.S. leg of the Raise the Roof tour in the scenic surroundings of Portland's peninsula.

Reentering My Morning Jacket’s orbit in Boston
After too many years away, it was great to be blasted by a My Morning Jacket live show again.

Crossing borders and making connections with Pearl Jam in Québec
A spur-of-the-moment decision to venture north lead to a memorable night of music in Canada français.

Roger Waters’ apocalyptic prophecies are drilled with precision in Boston
Roger Waters has something to say, and he's not subtle about how he says it. And we're all the better for it.

At Fenway Park, Paul McCartney proves he remains without peer
Not to be dramatic about it, but over two nights in Boston, McCartney was an inspirational force of nature.

Collapsing, rebuilding and reigniting with Pearl Jam in Arizona
Pearl Jam went back to basics and put on a show that elevated beyond just another concert.

LONG FORM

Restless Souls
How Pearl Jam fought back and saved themselves with Vitalogy

By 1994, Pearl Jam had been backed into a corner. They responded with a dark album that was both catchy and anti-commercial.

Chasing the Sun
How Oasis crossed oceans with Definitely Maybe

Twenty years after Oasis' debut, we trace the highs, lows and lasting impact of Definitely Maybe.

Let it Ride
Ryan Adams' long, prolific road to Cold Roses

Ryan Adams suffered heartbreak and frustration at the start of his solo career, and he channeled it all into his 2005 masterpiece, Cold Roses.

Crawling Back to You
A critical and personal breakdown of Tom Petty's masterpiece, Wildflowers

This special e-zine tackles all aspects of Petty's masterful Wildflowers, from the details to the personal.

NEW CLASSICS

Sweep It Into Space is just the most recent triumph by Dinosaur Jr.
Death, taxes and Dinosaur Jr. delivering another outstanding record. It's just nice having something positive to rely upon.

The effortless greatness of the Rolling Stones at the El Mocambo
It might be heresy to suggest as much, but this might be the finest live moment of the Rolling Stones ever committed to tape.

Hitting a new peak with the Allman Brothers Band on Hittin’ the Note
In 2003, Gregg Allman and company went into the studio and pulled another classic record out of the air.

The Stones’ Love You Live is a ramshackle time capsule of a wild band
Are there better live albums by the Rolling Stones? Probably. But there are hardly any as fun or riotously messy as this one.

Dylan, the Band and capturing the flood in 1974
Bob Dylan and the Band set out on a tour that resulted in a series of raucous shows that captured America's imagination, and resulted in the double-live Before the Flood.

The Faces were flying immediately on First Step
It might not technically be their best work, but the Faces laid the foundation for their greatness with their debut First Step.

BOOTLEGGING

Capturing the Rolling Stones in a moment of revolution, via Live’r Than You’ll Ever Be
Nearly 50 years later, one of the key nights in the transformation of the Rolling Stones lives on.

Led Zeppelin's early fury captured at the Fillmore West
In this edition of Bootlegging, a recording from April, 1969, shows Led Zeppelin introducing audiences to their ridiculously heavy blend of rock and blues on an early American tour.

Keith Richards reveled in old favorites on 'Stone Alone'
Free of his famous band and even his most famous instrument, Keith Richards found solace on some old standards in these rare solo sessions, all captured on a bootleg.

Technical difficulties can't stop a blazing set from the Who
Tape issues kept the Who from presenting their epic Quadrophenia album the way they wanted in 1973. So instead, they did everything short of setting their guitars on fire in this flawed, brilliant show.

FEATURES

This is the place: Delving into Radiohead’s hacked minidiscs
Through questionable means but ultimately positive results, hours and hours of Radiohead's demos and outtakes from OK Computer have been unleashed, and they're a revelation.

10 for the 10s: Telling the story of the past decade in 10 albums
Matt and Nick each run through 10 albums that defined their past 10 years, from country to hip hop, singer-songwriters to rockers.

Looking back through Jimi Hendrix's trains
Tracking the many versions of "Hear My Train a Comin'" that Jimi Hendrix recorded, with words and images.

Darker and lighter reflections: Music in 2016
This year was obviously a mess. But we kept getting a lot of good music, and it helped keep everything afloat a little while longer.